A top priority for IT professionals in 2016 is deciding on a cloud storage strategy. Of the available options, most consider using the public cloud for secondary storage purposes, like backup and archiving, to be the most obvious path to…
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Using Object Storage to Reverse Cloud Storage
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cold Data, dr, Hybrid, SwiftStack
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Is Deduplication Useless on Archive Data?
One of the techniques that storage vendors use to reduce the cost of hard disk-based storage is deduplication. Deduplication is the elimination of redundant data across files. The technology is ideal for backup, since so much of a current copy…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, Disk, dr, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Tape
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IT Administrator Interview: Solving VMware Performance Problems with Flash
There has been a lot of hype around all-flash and hybrid flash arrays over the past few years, but how are data centers using the technology to solve real storage management issues? Listen as Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump…
Hybrid Cloud Backup 2.0
Regarding backup and disaster recovery, the cloud is ideal for getting data off-site. It is also ideal for disaster recovery thanks to the many Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings on the market. The cloud is appealing because for…
Cost Effective Storage for Legacy Apps heading to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Avere CloudFusion The cloud appeals to organizations of all sizes, but as they begin their migration they are faced with the challenge of trying to integrate into the cloud provider’s storage infrastructure. Amazon, for example, has Elastic Block…
MeetTheCEO Podcast – Qumulo’s Peter Godman
In this week’s MeetTheCEO Qumulo‘s Peter Godman joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about his company’s product, Qumulo Core, the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS. Qumulo Core is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design that is optimized for the…
MeetTheCEO Podcast with John Spiers CEO of NexGen Storage
In this week’s MeetTheCEO podcast George Crump and I sit down with John Spiers, CEO of NexGen Storage. We’ll talk about a fundamental problem facing storage systems. At any given time, only five percent of global data is considered relevant. Yet…
Portfolio Analysis: DDN Delivers a Powerful Portfolio for the Data Intensive Enterprise
General Motors and General Electric, both in business for over a century, now employ more IT professionals than most IT vendors. Both companies have described themselves as software firms. At the heart of any IT company is data and most…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, Flash, Hard disk, HPC, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, NAS, Software Defined, SSD, WOS
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Unifying Cloud Management through vCenter
Briefing Note: HotLink Introduces Hybrid Cloud Management For the traditional data center, VMware remains the dominant virtualization platform but as enterprise roadmaps begin to map in the cloud they are struggling with how to manage the hybrid environments they are…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, DRaaS, HotLink, Hybrid, Shadow IT, Virtualization, VM
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ChalkTalk Video: The Struggle Between Flash Performance and Capacity
The challenge when selecting a flash array is, do you go with performance in the form of all-flash or do you go with capacity in the form of a hybrid array? To overcome these challenges vendors are coming to market…
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