Over the past few years, the large storage vendors like EMC, HP and Oracle have been successful in creating their own well attended events. While these events are valuable, the storage industry and storage IT professionals still need a vendor…
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IT Professionals Need A Vendor Neutral Storage Conference
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, DSI, performance, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, Solid State, Storage Architecture
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Why Enterprises Need Hybrid Cloud Storage
Most industry sources estimate that approximately 90% of all new data growth in corporate data centers today is from unstructured data. In some environments this data is nearly doubling every two years, creating a serious scaling challenge for traditional storage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, Cloudian, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Object Storage, ROI, SaaS, Webinar
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See you at the SNIA Conference – Video
Join Storage Switzerland at the Data Storage Innovation Conferance in April. 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 watch a Storage…
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, whiteboard video
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Software Defined Storage – Podcast
Hyper-converged storage is true Software-defined Storage (SDS), since by migrating storage intelligence to the hypervisor it’s completely hardware agnostic. But there’s still room for improvement. In this podcast, we look at how SDS is evolving and how it can continue…
Tagged with: Atlantis ILIO, Backup, Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Flash, Flash memory, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Virtualized WAN Acceleration For Hybrid Clouds
The wide area network (WAN) as we know it today is evolving. Over the past decade, many organizations have deployed hardware appliances to help speed up the WAN links between data center sites, as well as between primary data centers…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Optimization, Silver Peak, Virtualization, WAN
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Are MSPs The Solution To CryptoLocker and Ransomware?
In late 2013, a new virus/malware appeared called CryptoLocker. What makes this malware unique is that its maker’s intention is to do more than just infect computers to see how much havoc they can wreak, this one actually wants to…
Tagged with: Backup, CAP, Cloud, CryptoLocker, Intronis, Malware, MSP, Protection, Ransomware
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The Evolution of Cloud File Sharing Services
It seems that every week we hear about another company offering a cloud-based file sync and share product for businesses, SMBs, consumers, pro-sumers, anyone – and everyone. Even a battery company recently announced it was getting into this business. One…
Full Service Cloud Backup is About More Than DR
Being a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a tough business and so is being an IT professional. Off-loading the backup architecture responsibility to a provider makes a lot of sense. Using the solution for more than just disaster recovery makes even more sense. In this article Storage Switzerland discusses how cloud backup can be used for far more than disaster recovery and how both MSPs and IT pros can take advantage of that.
Tagged with: Backup, Backup As A Service. BaaS, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Intronis, MSP
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Where Object Storage is Used
In previous columns we’ve discussed what exactly object storage is (and is not) and what advantages this technology brings to the storage infrastructure. It’s more scalable than a NAS system, more economical than a traditional RAID-based storage array and able…
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