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Kaminario Delivers Scale Right – All Flash Array

Posted on June 27, 2014 by George Crump

When a data center considers an all-flash array, it is generally in response to a storage performance demand for a specific application. In other words, it is a point solution to an immediate and pressing problem. For this particular situation,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Kaminario, performance, Scale Right
Posted in Briefing Note

The perfect Disk Backup for Virtualized Backups?

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Disk Backup Appliance Designed for VMware?
With its support for SSD, the Drobo B1200i could be one of the most viable platforms for supporting random I/O generating changed block backups and data in-place recoveries, the capability to execute a VM directly from the backup target. In this product analysis, StorageSwiss examines the Drobo B1200i to see how it handles the new requirements of VM disk backup and recovery.

https://storageswiss.com/2014/06/19/perfect-disk-backup-virtualized-backups/

Tagged with: Deduplication, disk backup, Drobo, Hybrid, RAID, Recovery in Place, SMB, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtual Server, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis

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 – How disk backup breaks Recovery in Place

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Recovery in Place, offered by companies like Veeam, Dell’s AppAssure and PHD Virtual, is a powerful and valuable feature. It allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and executed directly from the backup device instead of having to transfer…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Recovery in Place, SSD, Storage, Virtual machine
Posted in Video

Making Virtual Server Recovery-In-Place Viable

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Backup technology for virtualized environments has become increasingly more advanced. Many organizations have implemented backup applications which are specifically designed to efficiently backup data in a virtualized environment without causing any disruption to application performance. In addition, some backup applications,…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Hybrid, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtual Server
Posted in Blog

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
Posted in Article

Storage Q&A: Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Charlie: I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to talk about one of our recent webinars; “How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup”. We had a large attendance for…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Recovery, Virtual desktop, Virtual Server, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

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

The Next Generation Data Center is a Model all Enterprises can use

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Eric Slack

It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Next Generation, NGDC, performance, Scalability, SolidFire, Thin provisioning
Posted in Blog

Enterprise Backup For The Next Generation Data Center

Posted on May 12, 2014 by George Crump

The Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) must contend with massive growth, not only in data capacity, but also in data criticality. Data in the NGDC must be protected and available in case something goes wrong. At the same time, IT…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dell, Enterprise, Metadata, Next Generation, NGDC, Scalability
Posted in Article