There is no question that there’s a lot of innovation when it comes to backing up the virtualized environment; but how do you protect the non-virtualized environment? A question we constantly ask IT professionals is “How virtualized are you?” —…
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Video: Data Protection for the Facebook Generation
The FaceBook generation was on our minds at Dell World 2014. These are working professionals, typically under the age of 40, that expect/demand their IT services to be always on. The challenge the IT professional may be facing is, they don’t…
SlideShare – The 7 Key Reasons why Object Storage lowers Storage TCO
Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Join Cloudian and Storage Switzerland for a panel-style discussion about the seven key reasons…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Object, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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At EMC, the 3rd Platform is all about the Metadata
With EMC’s acquisition of Spanning, the data protection arm of EMC’s new core technologies division (CTD) now has a tool for protecting data in cloud based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365. This was a needed acquisition that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage
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Backup Service Level Agreements vs. Service Level Objectives
Backup vendors and integrators have long tried to get organizations to set and maintain service level agreements (SLA) for various processes in their data centers including data protection. Creating SLAs for any process is a painstaking process, for data protection…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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The Best of both worlds – Cloudian HyperStore Appliance
In our prior article, we discussed how enterprise data centers have a need for software defined object storage technology that can leverage commodity hardware to drive down data center costs and to enable businesses to refresh their storage infrastructure with…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, CPU, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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Is Converged Storage right for you? Four questions to ask
If you’re an IT pro who is wearing a lot of hats, simplicity is the name of the game. Virtualization technology has made server management simpler, but storage infrastructure management still lags behind. Converged storage solutions promise ease of implementation…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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The two worlds of Private Cloud Storage
Various industry sources estimate that unstructured data (user files, PDFs, email, rich multimedia, machine sensor data, etc.) accounts for upwards of 90% of all new data growth. Software-defined object storage offers an alternative approach to NAS/SAN systems. But many organizations…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, CPU, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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Storage Short: The problem with Mutual Mystification and Backups
While many webinars focus on a specific technology, few focus on the process. If the data protection process is broken, a new backup or replication app will at best just be a band-aid that is destined to break the next…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Synnex
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How Hyperconvergence can Hyper-drive Virtualization
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Is Convergence Right For You? 4 Questions To Ask”, we polled our audience and asked what percentage of their environment is virtualized. Over half of the respondents selected 25-50% of their environment is virtualized.…
Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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