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Can the Cloud consolidate the Backup of Endpoints, Laptops and Servers?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

Every few years the backup consolidation project shows up on IT’s whiteboard. The objective of this exercise seems noble enough; consolidate point solutions so that the data protection process can be simplified, while at the same time increasing protection quality…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Data Protection, Hybrid, Infrascale, Infrastructure, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, SME, Virtualization
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Storage Q&A: How to run Virtual Machines on your OpenStack Infrastructure

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Open vStorage has a new product that will allow you to run virtual machines right on your OpenStack Infrastructure. Storage Crump Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and Open vStorage Product Manager Wim Provoost sat down with me in the…

Tagged with: Block Based Storage, CEPH, Cloud, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, Open vStorage, performance, Scale, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: The Next Generation Data Center demands SDS 2.0

Posted on January 19, 2015 by George Crump

The next generation data center requires a fundamental change in the way we implement and manage storage. IT professionals who are trying to implement these various changes have two basic options: Clean Slate or Augment. The problem is that both…

Briefing Note: Zadara Multi-Tenant Storage Multi-Zoned for increased Availability

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Any time a storage system claims to be “enterprise-class”, IT planners should look into its ability to survive a disaster. This is even true for storage systems that are cloud based, since a cloud data center is still just that,…

Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, HA, Infrastructure, Multi-Tenant Storage, Replication, Zadara
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How Object Storage can improve Hadoop

Posted on January 15, 2015 by George Crump

When organizations begin to explore a Hadoop initiative their goal is to create an environment that can help them make better decisions. The more data that the Hadoop environment has access to and the faster that data can be processed,…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDFS, Infrastructure, Metadata, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…

Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…

News Analysis: Datto buys Backupify for complete Cloud Protection

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

Acquisitions are a common occurrence in the IT market. Most are predictable, but every so often one takes us off-guard. Datto’s acquisition of Backupify falls into that category. But even more rare is this acquisition actually makes sense. Datto is…

Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Converged vs Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT organizations are increasingly coming under pressure to deliver business application services with the same speed and agility as their public cloud counterparts. The bottom line is if IT can’t be responsive to the needs of the business, they may…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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