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Top Backup Takeaways from 2013

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, PBBA, Primary Storage, RLM, SIaaS, SLA, SSD, Tape, Virtual, Virtual machine
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Designing Enterprise-class Multi-Tenant Storage

Posted on January 9, 2014 by George Crump

Cloud Providers and enterprises must be able to guarantee performance to specific applications or groups of applications. They also need ways to distribute some of their storage management workload directly to the users or ‘interests’ they support. In the cloud…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Providers, DRAM, Enterprise, GUI, LUN, Multi-Tenant, RAID, Zadara
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The New Normal: Software-Defined WAN Acceleration for a Cloud-Centric World

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Wide area network (WAN) acceleration technology has been successfully used by many organizations for over a decade to accelerate data traffic between data centers and branch offices. Typically deployed as an appliance, WAN accelerators help to ensure the timely transmission…

Tagged with: Acceleration, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Center Sprawl, Hypervisor, Silver Peak, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization, WAN
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Can The Enterprise Count on The Cloud For Data Protection?

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Cloud storage has come under increased scrutiny as of late, thanks to several well publicized outages as well as an outright shutdown of one provider. Enterprises are starting to re-think their cloud strategy, even when it comes to data protection. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst examines the state of cloud backup to determine if it is ready to deliver enterprise class protection.

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloud Backup, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data Protection, Data security, Encryption, HP, Protection
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Can Deep Storage Help Cloud Providers Keep their Promise?

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud file storage and cloud-based services have historically relied on an interesting strategy, sometimes called a “Free-mium” business model. They offer a free service, typically a stripped down version of their regular product, and encourage users to upgrade to the…

Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud, IBM, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, LTFS, SoftLayer, SpectraLogic
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Copy Data in the Cloud

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Colm Keegan

While industry pundits and analysts yammer on about the unrelenting growth of data, the real issue for enterprise data centers and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), is keeping a lid on the extensive number of redundant copies of information that propagate…

Tagged with: Actifio, Business, Cloud, Data management, HP-UX, IBM, SAP AG, SNW Europe, VMware
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Predictable Virtual Server Performance for Less

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Colm Keegan

For many storage planners it is a daunting task to size their virtual storage infrastructure “just right”, without needless overspending. Indeed, this is becoming increasingly difficult to attain given the high degree of I/O workload variability that multiple virtual machines…

Tagged with: Cloud, Quality of service, SNW Europe, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, VMware
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