The cost of a SQL Server license is quite high. This is why the typical method of deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment can become exceedingly expensive. One of the advantages of virtualization is each database instance can have…
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Amazon re:Invent: Cohesity Briefing – Modernizing Secondary Storage
While the industry places a lot of attention on all-flash arrays, for the most part these systems only service a small portion of data center capacity – the most active data. Secondary storage stores, or at least should store, the…
Amazon AWS re:Invent – Amazon Goes Snowmobiling
One of the biggest challenges facing an organization contemplating a move to the cloud is ingestion. How do you get all your data to the cloud in a timely manner? Sure you could replicate it, but if the organization’s data…
Google Storage vs. Amazon Storage
I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:…
Is DRaaS a Panacea?
There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our…
Webinar: How Viable is Google ColdLine Cloud Storage?
Google has recently announced expansion of their cloud storage service. It offers similar service levels as Amazon S-3 and Glacier, but with simplified pricing. How viable is their cloud storage product for the average customer? How do their service levels…
SlideShare: What’s Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and How to Fix it
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to…
Making Sure the Storage Infrastructure Keeps Pace
Cisco Briefing Note Pressure on the storage architecture is compounded by the variety of ways that infrastructure is delivered. Options range from traditional fibre channel storage area networks, to IP storage networks, to bladed systems and to hyperconverged infrastructures. Then,…
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What is the most popular DR system for VMs?
I am surprised by the results of a recent online poll that asked the question “What is your DR plan for your VMs?” Participants were given four choices: Built-in software replication Array-based hardware replication Third-party app Third-party backup service The…
Webinar: Other People’s Storage – What Can You Really Store in the Cloud?
The cloud is not a magical place where unicorns and leprechauns live. And it is not a singular. The cloud is a number of well run data centers most organizations can leverage in some form or fashion. One of the…
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