Designing a SAN for the Cloud Service Provider Cloud Service Providers exist in unique market conditions. They are at the same time competitors to and complements to traditional data center IT. Every service they provide is under scrutiny, and those…
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Cloud Defined Storage
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud computing, OnApp, Service-level agreement, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup
Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…
Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?
A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…
Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups
Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Linux, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual, Virtual Technologies, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Unified Cloud Storage Array
Cloud Storage Gateways can provide a variety of services that allow data centers to connect to the cloud. There are multiple backup gateways, a few file services (NAS) gateways and fewer still primary storage (iSCSI) gateways. Incredibly rare are gateways…
The Requirements for Cloud Storage Infrastructure
Cloud storage is becoming a ubiquitous term, subject to a wide variety of definitions. In the context of this article cloud storage will refer to a storage service that’s provided by an organization to storage users. That organization can be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Object, Object Storage, Protection
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Tuning the Cloud for Primary Storage
TwinStrata Test Drive Part 2 – Cache Intelligence One of the biggest concerns for IT managers considering cloud storage for primary data is how to make sure that the inherent latency of an internet connection does not impact the required…
Falling Backward – Disaster Recovery Plans have to Include Fail Back
When creating or testing a disaster recovery (DR) plan most IT professionals tend to focus on getting the data out of the building and safely stored in a remote location. Much of the success or failure of a DR plan…
The Downsides to Array Based Data Replication
Array based replication is the ability to have data automatically copied to a remote site creating the foundation of a solid disaster recovery strategy and as a result many storage arrays have a replication option. In fact many vendors provide…
Your Hypervisor Is Hardware Independent
So Should Your Replication Solution Be Server virtualization changed the way the server infrastructure is deployed, managed and maintained. It also changed the way servers were acquired. No longer was the user locked into a particular set of server hardware…
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