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Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape

Posted on May 13, 2014 by George Crump

The cost of disk capacity has come down dramatically over the last two decades and, thanks to technologies like scale-out NAS and object storage, the ability to manage petabytes of data is certainly a possibility. But the cost to power…

Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, CIFS, Compression, Crossroads, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, NAS, NFS
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The Next Generation Data Center is a Model all Enterprises can use

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Eric Slack

It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Next Generation, NGDC, performance, Scalability, SolidFire, Thin provisioning
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What Does Software-Defined Mean For Data Protection?

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Colm Keegan

What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…

A Virtualization Backup Alternative – Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.9

Posted on February 14, 2014 by George Crump

When it comes to virtualization specific backup applications, many IT professionals only think of one name, Veeam. But there are several alternatives that those professionals should consider. One of those alternatives, Nakivo, just made its case stronger with the recent…