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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
Posted in Video

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…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, SMB, Solid-state drive, Storage, Storage area network, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast

CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP

Posted on May 15, 2014 by George Crump

Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data…

Tagged with: Backup, CA, Data Protection, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO
Posted in Briefing Note

File Storage vs Object Storage?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Data Replication, File Storage, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Object, Object Storage
Posted in Blog

Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape

Posted on May 13, 2014 by George Crump

The cost of disk capacity has come down dramatically over the last two decades and, thanks to technologies like scale-out NAS and object storage, the ability to manage petabytes of data is certainly a possibility. But the cost to power…

Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, CIFS, Compression, Crossroads, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, NAS, NFS
Posted in Article

VSPEX Enabled WAN Acceleration

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Next up at EMC World we caught up with Tony Thompson and Everett Dolgner from Silver Peak. Our readers will be familiar with the fact that Silver Peak has been on the leading edge of providing software-defined WAN acceleration technology…

Tagged with: CSP, Data Acceleration, Data Protection, EMC, EMC World, Silver Peak, Virtual, WAN
Posted in Blog

EMC Announces The Data Domain DD2200

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Beyond Entry Level Protection Storage Today at EMC World, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division announced the release of the new Data Domain DD2200 platform. This new system is designed to function as the new “entry-level” deduplication appliance in the…

Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, Deduplication, EMC, EMC World, Multi-Tenant
Posted in Blog

The 3 Problems With Adding Capacity To Your NAS – And How To Solve Them

Posted on April 30, 2014 by George Crump

Disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have become the workhorse of the data center. These systems are the first responders to the rampant growth of unstructured data facing organizations of all sizes. As a result, these organizations need to…

Tagged with: Capacity, Crossroads, Data Protection, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, NAS, Virtualize
Posted in Article

What Is The Data Protection Continuum?

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Colm Keegan

In an era where business end-users have increasingly more options and autonomy for deciding how they will protect their application data, it is critically important for today’s IT organizations to provide more choices. By building a data protection infrastructure that…