Experts claim that organizations want to “get out of the data center business” as one of the reasons that organizations want to move to the Cloud. While that justification does come up occasionally, in most cases top organizations are quite…
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Webinar: From Disaster to Recovery: What Hurricane Harvey Means for your Data Center
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey that swept Southern Texas last week, colocation facilities and companies with data centers in the region (and elsewhere) are faced with the stark reality that a strong data center and disaster recovery plan is…
Tagged with: Colocation, Data center, Disaster recovery, dr, Hurricane, Preparation, Primary, Recovery, Uptime Institute
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Certified Microsoft Container Technology
Briefing Note: DH2i Achieves Microsoft Platform Ready Status In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland and DH2i discussed leveraging container technology to create an MS-SQL framework that improves high availability and disaster tolerance with policy based SLA Management. While Docker grabs…
SlideShare: The Top 3 Reasons To Start Using Containers For Your MS-SQL Environment
Container technologies are capturing the industry headlines right now, but they are seen mainly as a solution for Linux test-dev environments. In reality, container technology can pay big dividends for MS-SQL. Join Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and DH2i’s Carl Berglund…
Webinar: The Top 3 Reasons To Start Using Containers For Your MS-SQL Environment
Container technologies are capturing the industry headlines right now, but they are seen mainly as a solution for Linux test-dev environments. In reality, container technology can pay big dividends for MS-SQL. Join Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and DH2i’s Carl Berglund…
Hyper-scale Nightmare: Using Consumer SSD in the Data Center – Podcast
One way admins of hyperscale data centers try to reduce costs is to use consumer-grade solid state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used in these environments. In this podcast, Shawn Worsell of OCZ/Toshiba…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data center, Flash, Hyper-scale, Hyperscale, IOPS, OCZ, OCZ Technology, SATA, SSD, Web-scale
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Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash
In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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Making Virtual Cloud Backup Easy with Datto – Podcast
Cloud integrated backup and DR is getting a lot of attention from IT planners. It can help organizations improve recoverability without having to incur the cost of building out dedicated DR datacenter infrastructure. But are some of these offerings so…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data center, Data Protection, Data recovery, Datto, Disaster recovery, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Storage Q&A: Can File Sync and Share be made secure?
Data security has taken on a whole new level of importance in light of recent events like the Heartbleed bug and revelations that major cloud sites have had millions of user credentials compromised by hackers. Recently I sat down with…
Tagged with: Data center, Data Protection, File Sharing, File Sync, file sync and share, PanTerra, Security
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Break out of the NetApp jail – Podcast
NetApp is great, but it can get pricey. David Cerf of Crossroads and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump talk with me about how you can set your budget free by breaking out of the NetApp capacity jail. Click here to…
Tagged with: Crossroads, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Flash memory, NAS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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