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Modernized IT Needs an Intelligent Virtual Data Repository

Posted on August 3, 2016 by George Crump

The cloud is not a single location. It is a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud locations and an organization may have several of each. The cloud aspect means that data and workloads should move seamlessly between these locations.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Metadata, Snapshot, Virtualize, VM
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Aligning Data Demands to Storage Supply

Posted on August 1, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Latency, Primary Data, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
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MeetTheCEO: Spectra Logic’s CEO Nathan Thompson

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Disk, Hard disk, MeetTheCEO, NAS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape
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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough

Posted on July 27, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, IBM, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services

Posted on July 26, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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…

Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hypervisor, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?

Posted on July 19, 2016 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Caringo, Data Protection, FAS, ISCSI, NetApp, Object Storage, Replication, Snaphots, Unstructured data, VM
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Using the Cloud to Make IT Better: CTERA Cloud Storage Enablement

Posted on June 21, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, Replication
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What are the Requirements of a Cloud First Strategy?

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Joseph Ortiz

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…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Protection, dr, Migration, RPO, RTO
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Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them

Posted on June 9, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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…