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Visualizing Before Adopting the Big Three Storage Trends

Posted on March 24, 2014 by George Crump

In a recent paper entitled “3 Storage Trends, 1 Crucial Question” by Phil Godwin, Vice President of Marketing at Clear Tech, the author describes three storage trends: Flash Storage, Tiered Storage and Cloud Storage. He goes on to point out…

Tagged with: Clear Technologies, Cloud, flash storage, Holistic, Hypervisor, Tiered Storage, Virtual machine
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Come to the Data Storage Innovation Conference – Podcast

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and I talk to David Dale, the Chairman of the Board for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) about the upcoming Data Storage Innovation Conference (DSI), to be held April 22 to 24 in Santa…

Can Evault Make Storage-as-a-Service Work?

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Eric Slack

We’ve all heard many times how data is growing, especially unstructured data, and how companies are faced with huge piles of files they may never need but can’t delete – legally or simply because the data owners won’t make those…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Gateway, EVault, OpenStack, Seagate, SLA, STaaS
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Need Consulting? We can help. – Podcast

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Who better to help you with your storage issues than to get input from the folks who you listen to here! Lead Analyst George Crump talks about the consulting service we provide at Storage Switzerland. Subscribe to our podcasts at…

Object Storage is Confusing but its Benefits are Clear

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object Storage is attracting more vendors as the technology moves ‘out of the clouds’ and closer to what could be called “mainstream” IT, at least that seems to be the objective based on the discussions at this year’s NextGen Object…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, NAS, NGOSS, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage
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Come See Us at The Data Storage Innovation Conference – Podcast

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Join Storage Switzerland at the Data Storage Innovation Conference from April 22 through 24. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has a new event designed for end users that features certifications, vendor presentations, hands on labs and the opportunity to…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloud computing, Conference, Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, networking, Santa Clara, SNIA, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Storage area network
Posted in Podcast

Real-Time Video Data – Competitive Advantage or Budget Sinkhole?

Posted on March 5, 2014 by George Crump

One of the fastest growing data types is video data and organizations of all kinds and sizes are having to deal with it. These organizations are not the traditional media and entertainment companies; now sports teams, public entities, mega-churches and…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Fuji, M&E, Recovery, Retention, Tape
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NetApp and Amazon partnerup – Podcast

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and I talk about a note from a recent briefing with NetApp about how the company is teaming up with Amazon AWS. While some might think NetApp and Amazon AWS would be competitors, George…