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MeetTheCEO: Spectra Logic’s CEO Nathan Thompson

Spectra Logic’s Nathan Thompson is our guest on this MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. The team discusses Nathan’s new book “Society’s Genome: Genetic Diversity’s Role in Digital Preservation” and how enterprises can overcome the challenge

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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough

Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and

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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services

Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom

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Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?

Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now

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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

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Using the Cloud to Make IT Better: CTERA Cloud Storage Enablement

The public cloud has backed IT into a number of uncomfortable places; specifically, there are a number of environments where company data is being created in places where it is difficult to protect. This is especially true for smaller companies

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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

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Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them

Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when storage and compute

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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

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Can IT do Cloud Storage better than Cloud Providers?

Outsourcing some or all of your organization’s storage needs to a cloud provider sounds very appealing to overworked IT professionals. After all, who wouldn’t want to get rid of having to deal with storage management, data protection and upgrades? Cloud

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