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Avere Cloud NAS Product Summary

IT organizations have been continually asked to do more with less, but how do you squeeze blood out of a stone? With soaring data growth rates and more demands being placed on existing storage assets by data intensive systems like

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Hybrid Cloud Now – Practical Strategies For Integrating Primary Storage with Cloud Storage

In the traditional data center, leveraging the cloud for anything more than backup seems like a futuristic pipe dream. While some data centers may be using a cloud service for backups and potentially disaster recovery, the thought of using the

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The New SMB Data Center – Podcast

Paul Chen from WD, Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland and I sat down recently to talk about the changing face of IT in small and medium sized businesses. There are a lot of changes taking place as you’ll hear in

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The Right Way for SMBs to Get into the Cloud

Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The cloud is an attractive option for small to medium-sized businesses because it allows a company

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Securing Hybrid Cloud Storage From Big Brother

During a recent webinar that Storage Switzerland held with Avere Systems, the audience was asked what their top concerns were when using cloud storage. Not surprisingly, the majority of the respondents stated “performance” and “security”. In fact, anecdotally we have

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File Storage vs Object Storage?

The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?

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EMC World 2014 – “Redefine”

During his keynote presentation at EMC World, Joe Tucci discussed how Google disrupted the main revenue source of the newspaper industry through its “AdWords” service. Similar to this example, Amazon has leveraged the ubiquity of the online e-commerce market space

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Hybrid Cloud Storage vs. The Enterprise

Watch our On Demand webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper One of the key data points coming out of EMC World 2014 last week was that the adoption of the “cloud”,

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The Easy Button for Hybrid Cloud Storage

Watch the On Demand Webinr “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper Various industry sources estimate that upwards of 70% of business computing and storage will remain in private data centers for the

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The EMC, VMware and Pivotal Federation

One of the major themes here at EMC World 2014 is the “Federated” platform. In essence, this refers to the collaboration and partnership for delivering a totally integrated next generation hybrid cloud computing (or in EMC’s parlance – 3rd platform)

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