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Four NEW requirements for backup – Podcast

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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
Posted in Podcast

ChalkTalk Video – The Veeam Backup Challenge

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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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The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS

Posted on May 28, 2014 by George Crump

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

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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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ChalkTalk Video – Abstracting Disk and Tape To Solve The Unstructured Data Problem

Posted on May 23, 2014 by George Crump

Unstructured data are consuming vast amounts of disk capacity in data centers, breaking IT budgets. The sheer number of files that make up the unstructured data also breaks the data protection process. Most of this data has not been accessed…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CrossRoads Systems, Data Protection, Disk, Storage Switzerland, Tape
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A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

I just caught up with Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland on a webinar Storage Switzerland is doing with WD on May 21. It will cover SMB’s and the need to update or even build a data center. To register for…