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Data Centers need Open Cloud Integration
Organizations establishing a cloud first strategy are looking for ways to integrate both legacy and modern applications. They are also looking for ways to automate and orchestrate redundant tasks. The goal is self-service IT, where users order the capabilities they…
What are the Requirements of a Cloud First Strategy?
A Cloud First Strategy means that as an organization brings new applications or services online, it tries to explore the viability of a cloud deployment prior to deploying within a more traditional architecture. Many organizations today are considering a Cloud…
What is a Cloud First Strategy
Can a data protection company that first released its products in the pre-cloud era claim to adopt a “cloud first” strategy? The proof would be in the proverbial pudding, of course. If a company developing products for IT is putting…
Where is the Cloud? The Cloud is a Method, Not a Location
In IT circles when the discussion of “the cloud” comes up, whether for cloud compute or cloud storage, the first thought is a public cloud like Amazon, Google or Azure. But the reality is the cloud is not a location,…
Using Open Data Management to enable IT Transformation
Enterprises are looking for a way out. Out of the trap of a data center made up of closed systems and into a data center that is open so that they can drive down costs and be more responsive to…
Weekly Storage Podcast: Storage Industry Quarterly Reports
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. That’s the best way to describe the latest round of quarterly reports coming from businesses in the Storage Industry. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump, Senior Analyst Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the…
Tagged with: Amazon Web Services, Commvault, EMC, HP, IBM, Micron, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Podcast, Quantum, SanDisk, SimpliVity, Symantec, Violin Memory
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Storage News from 1-30 Podcast
We take a look at some earnings hits and new equipment in the market place. Storage Switzerland founder and lead analyst George Crump also talks about a mini controversy over his blogs over the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
CommVault Brings Features and Flexibility to STORServer Backup Appliances
STORServer was one of the first companies to come out with a backup appliance for the mid-market over 10 years ago. Their product used IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) as the backup software loaded onto server hardware with a tape…
Tagged with: Backup, Commvault, IBM Trioli, NetBackup, STORServer, TSM, Virtual Tape Library
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Dell Brings Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery To The SMB Market
Dell today announced its first entrance into the disk backup target appliance market in the form of the new Dell DR4000. Targeted directly at the medium-size business, the DR4000 comes with built-in deduplication, compression and replication as part of a…
Tagged with: Backup, Commvault, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Dell, Ocarina Networks, PBBA, Symantec, The Dell, WAN
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