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Briefing Note: What does Dell see in Exablox’s Scale-out NAS?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Eric Slack

Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, Exablox, NAS, Object, Protection, Scale-Out, Snapshot
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Briefing Note: Intronis Reverses Backups and Simplifies Delivery

Posted on March 6, 2015 by George Crump

One task that many data centers would like to get rid of is data protection. Offering it as a service is not only popular with managed service providers (MSP) and value-added resellers (VAR), it also launches many of them into…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Intronis, MSP, Protection, Recovery, VAR
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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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How Software-defined Storage is Enabling Snapshot-based Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Eric Slack

Snapshots are powerful tools for creating a primary storage data protection system, one that offers faster recovery and can even replace traditional backup altogether. But protecting against primary storage system failure, which would render the snapshots useless, requires a second…

Overcoming the Challenges of Snapshot Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by George Crump

In February Storage Switzerland held two webinars that used similar techniques to address an age old problem: data protection. Both of these webinars asked primary storage to take a larger role in its own protection. One webinar discussed using snapshots…

Tagged with: Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, performance, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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StorageShort: Copy Data Methods

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

2015 is going to be a big year for Copy Data. We expect every major data protection vendor to release some form of copy data management solution to the market this year. But vendors will take different approaches to deliver…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability, SDS, Software Defined, Test/Dev
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Briefing Note: CTERA’s Cloud Data Services Platform Transforms SMB and ROBO IT Service Delivery

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Eric Slack

New cloud technologies and their associated economics have created both opportunities and challenges as organizations wrestle with how to govern, optimize and automate the delivery of IT services. IT managers are seeking new ways to deliver these services from within…

Tagged with: Briefing, Cloud, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, Flash, FS&S, Gateway, Hybrid, IT-as-a-Service, ITaaS
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StorageShort: Why is Copy Data a Problem?

Posted on February 23, 2015 by George Crump

Copy Data is a term used to describe additional copies of production data that are created to feed other processes in the organization. Functions like backup, disaster recovery, development, test as well as reporting and analytics all need copies of…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability, Test/Dev
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