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Making DRaaS Make Even More Sense – Bluelock Briefing Note

Posted on January 6, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) continues to grow on both the demand and the supply side of the equation. While some still wonder if DRaaS makes sense for their business, many customers and vendors alike are flocking to the…

Tagged with: Backup, Bluelock, Data deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Hybrid Cloud Storage for the SMB

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Colm Keegan

It’s time for the SMB data center to come out of the closet. For far too long, many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have operated their IT infrastructures on shoestring budgets by resorting to consumer grade systems, like laptops and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data deduplication, Disaster recovery, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, SMB, storage efficiency, Western Digital
Posted in Blog

Source vs Target Based Data Deduplication

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Deduplication can be deployed as either a “target” based solution, where backups are pushed over the network to an appliance where deduplication takes place or a “source” based approach, where deduplication takes place at the client or server level. Some…

Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Hardware, Oracle, Storage, Top10-2013, Windows Server 2012
Posted in Article

On-Demand Panel Discussion – Storage Predictions and Planning 2014

Posted on December 18, 2013 by George Crump

2014 will be a year unlike any other for IT Planners. The pressure to meet the performance demands of an increasingly dense virtual infrastructure and even more transaction-heavy databases is higher than ever. Add to that the out-of-control growth of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Computer data storage, Data deduplication, Flash, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Storage
Posted in Webinar

Avamar’s Virtualization Journey Continues

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Colm Keegan

As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…

Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Data deduplication, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX
Posted in Briefing Note

Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
Posted in Blog

CEO Interview – The Truth All-Flash Deduplication

Posted on November 30, 2013 by George Crump

Deduplication is the key to all flash adoption but as Storage Switzerland pointed out in its recent article “What to Look For in All-Flash Deduplication” each vendor’s implementation is different and IT Planners should not consider all deduplication to be…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Deduplication, IOPS, Permabit, Storage Switzerland
Posted in Webinar

What To Look For In All-Flash Deduplication

Posted on November 20, 2013 by George Crump

Many All-Flash Storage Array vendors are counting on deduplication to bring the cost per GB of their systems more in line with traditional hard disk based storage systems. However IT planners need to be careful not to assume that all…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Flash memory, Permabit
Posted in Article

All-Flash Storage Efficiency Is About More Than Deduplication

Posted on October 29, 2013 by George Crump

George Crump, Lead Analyst – Storage Switzerland All-Flash Storage Arrays have quickly become the go to option to solve storage performance challenges. Thanks to data efficiency technologies that reduce the effective cost per gigabyte (GB), the appeal of All-Flash Arrays…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Permabit
Posted in Article

Scale out NAS Backup for Scale out Storage

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Eric Slack

Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Data deduplication, NAS, OptiScale, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton, VirtuoSO
Posted in Product Analysis