Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their…
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The Anatomy of a Consolidated Storage System
It has long been a goal of IT professionals to consolidate the storage infrastructure to a single storage system that would meet both the performance and long-term capacity needs of the data center. This goal however has proven to be…
Tagged with: Cache, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, RAID, RAM
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
The Challenge of Protecting Next Generation Databases
Database Technology Evolves Beyond Traditional Data Protection For over three decades, relational databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix have been primary databases for core business applications. They are used to store and analyze what used to be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, Deduplication, Next Generation, NoSQL, RPO, RTO, SQL, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
What is Converged Data Management?
Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, CDM, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Flash, Replication, ROI, Rubrik, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Video: What happens at the Backup 2.0 Workshop?
In this video, we get an example of the in the trenches, real world training provided at the Storage Decisions / TechTarget Backup 2.0 Workshop featuring Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump. Watch this interactive, vendor agnostic, deep…
MeetTheCEO: Druva’s CEO Jaspreet Singh
Recently George Crump and I sat down with Jaspreet Singh CEO of Druva, a data protection software company that provides data center class availability and governance for both the mobile and distributed enterprise. We talk to Jaspreet about Druva’s converged…
Tagged with: Availability, Compliance, Data Protection, Druva, Governance, Migration
Posted in Podcast
Posted in Podcast
Are you paying too much for DR Storage?
We are in the home stretch of the 2015 Backup 2.0 Technical Workshop, a comprehensive day of data protection education. At the workshop, we provide you with specific designs to meet demands for faster recovery and longer retention. Our sessions…
Hyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity
Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of…
Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyper-converged, Recovery, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
For MSPs Cloud Backup is all about Adding Value
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) offering data protection as a service is an alluring option. Most end-user organizations would love to get rid of the backup headache. Unless regularly monitored, data protection is prone to…
The Cloud for Primary Storage – How to get it right
Briefing Note: ClearSky Comes Out of Stealth For many organizations, the thought of letting someone else manage their storage infrastructure is appealing. The cost and time required to acquire, maintain, manage and migrate storage is overwhelming and these organizations are…
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