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Storage Q&A: Is VM Customizable DR Protection essential?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Data protection is vitally important for your business. But not only do you have to protect your data, you have to have the right data going to the right location at the right time. After a recent video shoot with…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Storage Q&A

Webinar – Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Posted on September 15, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers of all sizes are looking for ways to increase the return on investment on their virtualized (desktop and server) infrastructures. Converged infrastructures propose to increase ROI by reducing the number of layers, essentially combining compute, storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
Posted in Webinar

Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Eric Slack

Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…

Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
Posted in Video

Webinar – The 7 key reasons why Object Storage lowers Storage TCO

Posted on September 12, 2014 by George Crump

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
Posted in Webinar

IT-Less Backup? Can the Cloud save the business?

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Most business owners don’t worry about data backup or recovery. But when a critical application becomes unavailable or worse, when the business loses data they panic. Data protection becomes a high priority and a cloud based backup solution seems like…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
Posted in Blog

Free Disk? No Thanks

Posted on September 11, 2014 by George Crump

This morning I am flying to New York City to attend Fujifilm’s 6th Annual Global IT Executive Summit. The theme of this year’s event is, “into Tomorrow with Tape Technology, Preserving and Protecting Critical Data”. This is a data protection…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Data Retention, Fujifilm, Recovery, Tape, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog

How to unlock the power of Cloud Storage – File Versioning vs. Locking

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Private or hybrid cloud file sharing provides many business benefits over traditional on-premise network attached storage. It enables organizations to consolidate infrastructure and remove duplicate silos of storage from multiple sites and office locations. Cloud file sharing reduces storage costs,…

Webinar – Designing Backup to reduce downtime for Business Owners

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Colm Keegan

The 5 Critical Questions to ensure you have protection against downtime How much downtime can your business handle before it starts to cause a real disruption to the bottom line? Studies show businesses of all sizes start seeing lasting effects…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
Posted in Webinar

DRaaS requires new questions

Posted on September 8, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent column “DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App” my colleague Eric Slack predicted that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will become the predominant cloud offering. I agree, DRaaS is almost too compelling for many organizations to…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Software as a service
Posted in Blog

Exclusive Report: Can your Backup Design handle Veeam?

Posted on September 8, 2014 by George Crump

Veeam and data protection applications like it, arm data protection professionals with a new set of capabilities that they didn’t have access to in the past. So powerful are these capabilities that they can justify the acceleration to a 100%…