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Top Backup Takeaways from 2013

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, PBBA, Primary Storage, RLM, SIaaS, SLA, SSD, Tape, Virtual, Virtual machine
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What Is Protection Storage?

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Colm Keegan

What is protection storage? Is this merely a way to re-package the role of purpose-built data deduplication appliances or are there some unique attributes to protection storage that warrants closer scrutiny from technology decision makers? In short, protection storage drives…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Domain, Deduplication, EMC, Protection Storage, Recovery
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The 10 Year All-Flash Array – Will Your All-Flash Array Wear Out?

Posted on December 19, 2013 by George Crump

An All-Flash Array is a performance sledgehammer. It shatters the performance problems that most data centers face and will likely continue to do so for years. Unlike traditional hard disk systems, most data centers that purchase an All-Flash Array won’t…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Deduplication, Flash, Flash Array, Flash memory, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive, SSD
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Primary Storage Deduplication is Here

Posted on December 13, 2013 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “The Truth About All-Flash Deduplication”, which is now available for on-demand viewing, we asked attendees where are they applying deduplication technology to improve storage efficiency. It was little surprise that backup storage, at 36% of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Information technology, Permabit, Storage
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Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
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CEO Interview – The Truth All-Flash Deduplication

Posted on November 30, 2013 by George Crump

Deduplication is the key to all flash adoption but as Storage Switzerland pointed out in its recent article “What to Look For in All-Flash Deduplication” each vendor’s implementation is different and IT Planners should not consider all deduplication to be…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Deduplication, IOPS, Permabit, Storage Switzerland
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All-Flash Storage Efficiency Is About More Than Deduplication

Posted on October 29, 2013 by George Crump

George Crump, Lead Analyst – Storage Switzerland All-Flash Storage Arrays have quickly become the go to option to solve storage performance challenges. Thanks to data efficiency technologies that reduce the effective cost per gigabyte (GB), the appeal of All-Flash Arrays…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Permabit
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Transform Backup Data into an Information Advantage

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dropbox, ExaGrid, Hardware, HP, Site Management, Storage
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Sepaton v7.0 Product Analysis

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Enterprise data centers environments are continuously faced with ever growing volumes of backup data. Many organizations have embraced purposed built backup appliances (PBBAs) utilizing deduplication (dedupe) to help drive operational efficiencies and reduce reliance on tape as a primary backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Oracle, PBBA, Record linkage, Sepaton, Storage
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What is Backup Appliance Sprawl – and how to stop it

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Eric Slack

Appliances have arguably become the de facto product format for new technologies in IT for a number of reasons. They’re complete systems that typically don’t require other components and their ‘plug and play’ implementation is simpler than the software and…

Tagged with: Appliance Sprawl, Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton
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