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Why a SAN Replacement and a VMware Exit Should Go Hand in Hand

Posted on January 18, 2025 by George Crump

Explore how combining SAN replacement and VMware exit projects can reduce costs, simplify operations, and future-proof your IT

Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, vcf, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Alternative, VSAN, vSphere
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Lightboard Video: Reimagining Data Recovery

Posted on March 2, 2020 by George Crump

In a recent Lightboard Video, Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and StorageCraft’s Sean Derrington discussed combining the protection of application data and unstructured data. We explained how OneXafe brought some unique methods to the table to enable IT to reimagine backup.…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, SQL, StorageCraft, Unstructured data
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Lightboard Video: Reimagining How to Protect Unstructured Data

Posted on February 24, 2020 by George Crump

In this Lightboard Video, Sean Derrington, Senior Director of Product Management at StorageCraft, joins George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, to discuss the challenges of protecting unstructured data. The problem is particularly tricky in virtual environments where unstructured data…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, SQL, StorageCraft, Unstructured data
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What is SRMaaS?

Posted on February 18, 2020 by George Crump

To keep up with the capacity and performance demands, IT is continually adding new storage systems to the data center. At Storage Switzerland, we find it is not uncommon for an organization to have seven or more different storage systems…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Clear Technologies, Cloud, Hyperconvergence, IoT, ML, SRM, SRMaaS
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Webinar: Three Reasons SRM is Broken and How to Fix It

Posted on February 18, 2020 by George Crump

Storage Resource Management (SRM), given the growth in storage capacity, the increased emphasis on performance, and the number of storage systems IT is implementing, should be the most popular application category within the storage market. The reality is that SRM…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Clear Technologies, Cloud, Hyperconvergence, IoT, ML, SRM, SRMaaS
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Lightboard Video: What is SRM as a Service?

Posted on February 17, 2020 by George Crump

Storage Resource Management is too complicated, doesn’t provide a complete enough view of the storage infrastructure, and is incredibly expensive. As a result, most organizations count on vendor tools to capture storage data. Then they manually consolidate that data in…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Clear Technologies, Cloud, Hyperconvergence, IoT, ML, SRM, SRMaaS
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Webinar: Are You Treating Unstructured Data as a Second Class Citizen?

Posted on February 11, 2020 by George Crump

Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data within most enterprises today. This data set contains the creative output of the organization’s employees as well as unique data captured by sensors and machines. Unstructured data is large in terms of…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Lightboard Video: Data Protection and Mobility for HCI and the Public Cloud

Posted on January 24, 2020 by George Crump

Organizations are evolving their data centers to be more cloud-like. A significant component of these initiatives is to invest in hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). Organizations are implementing HCI at multiple locations and, at the same time, are moving some workloads to…