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Product Analysis: Asigra Converged Data Protection Appliance

Asigra Cloud Backup is a robust, multi-tenant data protection offering built exclusively for Managed Service Providers. For almost three decades, the solution has enabled MSPs to provide enterprise class backup and recovery services to their customers worldwide. But the infrastructure

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Podcast: The Deduplication Myths of Flash Storage

What are the four myths of all flash in a virtual environment? That’s the subject of a webinar on StorageSwiss.com. But on this podcast we deep dive on flash and deduplication. Join George Crump as he talks to Tegile’s Chris

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Webinar: Exposing the Myths of Flash Storage for Virtualization

Flash storage has become the cure-all for the storage I/O blender created by the virtual server and virtual desktop environment. But the rush to flash has created a few myths about how to use flash for virtualization. In this webinar

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Briefing Note: Is it time to Hyper-converge Backups?

Convergence and hyper-convergence are two concepts that have proven to be very popular with data centers, allowing them to shorten implementation times and in some cases condense the IT stack to simplify operations and support. But these concepts have mostly

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Storage News and Insights for the week of 5-22

This week’s look at news and notes features George Crump and Eric Slack talking to Charlie Hodges about issues ranging from VVols, the importance of Quality of Service in Storage and a deep talk on a claim that “disk is

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No Frills Deduplication Appliance – Dell Updates DR Series

IT professionals in charge of data protection face a never ending challenge to get backups done faster while data volumes continue to increase. Add to that increased concerns about the security of data that they are protecting. While some deduplication

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Briefing Note: Netlist Readies PCIe Based High Performance NVRAM

The ever-increasing density of virtual infrastructures, and the need to scale databases larger than ever, is creating an ongoing need for faster storage. And while flash has become the “go to” performance option, there are environments that still need more.

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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads

An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will

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MeetTheCEO Podcast: ExaGrid’s CEO, Bill Andrews

Join George Crump and I for our latest CEO Podcast with the CEO of ExaGrid, Bill Andrews. Bill talks about how ExaGrid has evolved its solution from a backup appliance with deduplication to a data protection appliance, ideal for recovery

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Briefing Note: StorReduce – Driving Down the cost of Cloud Storage

Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data

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