Case Study – Major League Baseball’s 24/7 Cable TV Network Pushes IT to Extremes Major League Baseball (MLB) has been around since 1869. The first televised game was in 1939 and 70 years later, MLB Network was launched on January…
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StorageSwiss sits down with MLB Network’s Asset Management group
Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Disaster recovery, Disk, LTFS, MLB, NAS, NFS, Tape, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: What does Dell see in Exablox’s Scale-out NAS?
Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, Exablox, NAS, Object, Protection, Scale-Out, Snapshot
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How Cloud can enable the All-Flash Data Center
It’s been said that, given the choice, every data center would choose to be all-flash. This is because access to near limitless performance not only increases application scale it also simplifies many day-to-day storage management tasks. This potential has led…
Quantum’s Q-Cloud Integrates the Cloud into StorNext and DXi Environments
The cloud offers a number of significant benefits for IT organizations, especially flexibility, as it allows companies to expand resource capacity on a moment’s notice. Cloud-based storage and services also provide a way to shift infrastructure costs from upfront, capital…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disk, Efficiency, Hybrid, Metadata, Quantum, Scale-Out, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Posted in Product Analysis
Briefing Note: Removing Tape Pain with B&L Associates Vertices and VaultLedger
Recently I wrote an article “Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape” which explained the advantages of using tape for cold backup storage and active archive storage. The economics behind tape are simply too compelling to ignore. The…
Tagged with: Archive, B&L Associates, Backup, Certificate of Destruction, COD, Disk, Tape
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New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup
For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Disk, High Availability, I/O, NEC, Recovery, Scaling, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video – Abstracting Disk and Tape To Solve The Unstructured Data Problem
Unstructured data are consuming vast amounts of disk capacity in data centers, breaking IT budgets. The sheer number of files that make up the unstructured data also breaks the data protection process. Most of this data has not been accessed…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CrossRoads Systems, Data Protection, Disk, Storage Switzerland, Tape
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Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape
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
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Is 2014 Really the Year of the All-Flash Array?
Adding flash to disk array systems was inevitable, as spinning disk-based storage hit the performance wall and virtualization kept pushing the demand for more IOPS. These early systems were expensive, implementation was difficult and feature sets were extremely basic or…
Why is Facebook Looking at BluRay?
Facebook recently put out a video showing their engineering manager with a new optical juke box Facebook has designed to hold BluRay DVDs that store “cold data”. According to the company, these are users’ oldest pictures and videos that are…
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