IT administrator “overload” is becoming the new norm for many organizations. Flat or declining IT budgets combined with accelerated data growth and an increasing demand for new business application services is putting many IT organizations in a quandary: How to…
Moving business critical applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to virtual server and cloud environments, requires high availability and a solid disaster protection plan. The question often asked — will implementing that protection eliminate the cost savings and configuration flexibility…
IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center. That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup…
Cloud integrated backup and DR is getting a lot of attention from IT planners. It can help organizations improve recoverability without having to incur the cost of building out dedicated DR datacenter infrastructure. But are some of these offerings so…
Many data centers are now more than 50% virtualized, but most of this virtualization has been application focused leading to silos of virtualization. As a result, each environment (MS-SQL, Exchange, VDI) gets its own storage, compute and network. This process…
Mission-critical data protection can make or break your company. You lose certain files and you are in very deep trouble. To talk about mission-critical data protection and its importance is Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Director…
Storage Switzerland’s webinars produce interesting results from the poll questions we ask. For example we asked “what is your biggest backup challenge” during a webinar with Scott Baker, Director of Enterprise Data Protection from HP and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump.…
When business application owners begin referring to Facebook as the standard for application availability, IT organizations are being put on notice – deliver or we will go elsewhere. The challenge is that traditional high availability clustering technologies can be costly,…
When IT organizations start being compared to Facebook, in terms of application availability, it is clear that business application owners are becoming increasingly less tolerant of ANY application downtime. In fact during a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “HA and DR…
“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…
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