NetApp is great, but it can get pricey. David Cerf of Crossroads and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump talk with me about how you can set your budget free by breaking out of the NetApp capacity jail. Click here to…
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Break out of the NetApp jail – Podcast
Tagged with: Crossroads, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Flash memory, NAS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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The All-Flash operating system for the Next Generation Data Center
All-flash solutions are fast, but not all flash solutions will solve your performance problems. In the enterprise, in the public and private clouds, speed alone isn’t enough. All-flash arrays should also be able to guarantee predictable service levels for each…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Next Generation Data Center, Scale-Out, SolidFire
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Shining a light on Shadow IT
IT Cloak and Dagger With the advent of cloud computing, all it takes is the swipe of a credit card to instantly get more storage capacity. Likewise, some users may just opt to purchase their own physical storage and keep…
Four NEW requirements for backup – Podcast
Storage Switzerland and Drobo held a webinar on Wednesday, July 11th on four new requirements for backup. Joe Disher from Drobo and George Crump from Storage Switzerland join me to talk about the webinar. Click here to view the webinar on…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Drobo, Flash, Hard disk drive, NAS, Storage, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video – The Veeam Backup Challenge
Veeam and other virtualization specific backup products have solved many of the data protection problems that slowed down initial server virtualization deployments. These solutions, and now even some traditional enterprise backup applications, offer the ability to cut the amount of…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Drobo, Recovery in Place, Veeam, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
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Data Protection In The Cloud Age
What does the record turntable and a mainframe computer have in common? Plenty, according to Guy Churchward, President of EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division. During EMC World 2014, Guy made an interesting comparison about how both the music industry…
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Avamar, Data Domain, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk Based Backup, EMC, PBBA, Protection
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How a NAS can be the IT Upgrade an SMB Needs
When a small company is in a business that leverages online interactions with their customers they’re committing themselves to providing the kind of uptime, accuracy and responsiveness that the general public is used to. For many small to medium-sized businesses…
The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS
Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Sharing, Data Protection, NAS, ROI, SMB, TCO, Western Digital
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Rethinking Data Protection in the Modern Data Center – Podcast
Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump is a leading expert on data protection. He joins me on this podcast with Stephen Spellicy, Senior Director, Product Management from HP to talk about how to service level objective driven backups can…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, HP Backup and Recovery, Protection, recover, SLO, Storage Switzerland
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The New SMB Data Center – Podcast
Paul Chen from WD, Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland and I sat down recently to talk about the changing face of IT in small and medium sized businesses. There are a lot of changes taking place as you’ll hear in…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, Hybrid Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Storage, SMB
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