Disaster Recovery could be the best implementation of the ‘as-a-Service’ business model yet because it fits the cloud delivery system so well and features an entirely different value proposition than other cloud services. DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offers more than the added…
Data is changing. Not only is it growing, but it is becoming more valuable. That means backup and recovery is becoming more important. Scott Baker from HP’s Data Protection Division and Storage Switzerland founder George Crump join me to talk…
Get the Best of Web-Scale and Enterprise IT for Business Applications The utilization efficiency, flexibility and scalability of Web-scale architectures appeal to the more traditional data center, but Enterprise IT needs the ability to run existing, Windows back-office applications and…
Business executive and IT professionals alike often share many of the same concerns when it comes to the use of cloud storage. But generally, there are four primary obstacles that businesses need to address before embracing the use of the…
It’s time for the SMB data center to come out of the closet. For far too long, many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have operated their IT infrastructures on shoestring budgets by resorting to consumer grade systems, like laptops and…
Diaster Recovery can be a hard thing for an IT Administrator to get their arms around. The demands for users of a data center can change from one department to the next. Quorum VP or Marketing John Gallagher talks to…
Most of the disasters that befall a company aren’t hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or acts of terrorism. Most IT disasters are simply unplanned downtime of critical servers. While these are a lot less dramatic, and a lot more common, they can…
There is no shortage of stories in the IT press about the effects of disasters, like 9/11 or Hurricane Sandy, where buildings are destroyed, data centers flooded, etc. While these are sensational events, for sure, they’re not the types of…
Being a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a tough business and so is being an IT professional. Off-loading the backup architecture responsibility to a provider makes a lot of sense. Using the solution for more than just disaster recovery makes even more sense. In this article Storage Switzerland discusses how cloud backup can be used for far more than disaster recovery and how both MSPs and IT pros can take advantage of that.
In our latest podcast, I sit down with Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump to discuss a major project that he is working on in 2014. Storage Decisions and Storage Switzerland are partnering together to bring you a…
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