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Is It Safe to Preserve Data in The Cloud

We are living in the information age, and modern companies rely on their data more than any other time in history. Many companies are leveraging the cloud for preserving this vast ocean of data, but some companies are concerned about

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ChalkTalk Video: When Should You Use High Availability instead of Backup?

Most data centers have some sort of backup strategy where it copies data on a periodic basis, typically once per night, to a secondary storage device and then either replicated or transported to a disaster recovery site. They count on

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More SQL Server with Fewer Licenses – DH2i Briefing Note

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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Monitoring VMware with Artificial Intelligence

SIOS Briefing Note There is no way we can optimize all the VMs in this world — and yet they need to be optimized. The sooner we all accept these two facts, the sooner we can move on to something

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Enterprise Container Storage

StorageOS Briefing Note Docker and container technology is experiencing rapid adoption by DevOps teams. But its move into the production data center is hindered by the lack of stateful, durable, highly available storage solutions. What are Containers? DevOps is an

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NAS vs. Object: HA w/o the headaches

Some systems are born with high availability, others have it thrust upon them. This seems to be the case when discussing the High Availability (HA) features of traditional NAS systems vs those of object storage systems. HA refers to the

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MeetTheCEO: Getting to Zero With Vision Solutions’ Alan Arnold

You can call this edition of Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCTO when we talk to the Chief Technical Officer for Vision Solutions Alan Arnold. As Executive Vice President and CTO, Arnold is responsible for the company’s global technology, services

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Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud

Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly

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Service Provider Counts on XtremIO to Expand Business

Case Study: First National Technology Services Managed Service Providers (MSP) face an enormous challenge, they have to provide IT services at a cost and quality better than the customers they are trying to attract while fending off competitive pressures from

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Briefing Note: NIMBOXX delivers Hyper-converged for Medium Business

Hyper-converged architectures collapse compute, storage and networking into a single tier so that a few servers can run all of an organization’s applications while also supplying the supporting storage and network infrastructure. These designs seem ideal for the small to

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