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Briefing Note: LinkTek – Making sure your Storage Refresh works

Posted on January 30, 2015 by George Crump

Storage upgrades and consolidation are a way of life for the modern IT professional. One of the most challenging but overlooked aspects of an upgrade is data migration, a process that’s not as simple as copying files and other data…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, LinkTek, Metadata, Migration, Shared Storage, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The average data center creates 8-10 copies of application data for a variety of purposes ranging from data protection to development to analytics reporting. The process to create these copies is inefficient and the cost to store them is expensive.…

Tagged with: Analytics, Consolidation, Copy Data, Data Protection, Delphix, Migration, Replication
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Storage Q&A: Is VM Customizable DR Protection essential?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Data protection is vitally important for your business. But not only do you have to protect your data, you have to have the right data going to the right location at the right time. After a recent video shoot with…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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The Virtualized Cloud Fabric

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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Who needs Cloud Storage – Violin delivers pay as you grow Flash

Posted on July 15, 2014 by George Crump

One of the challenges that every IT planner is trying to figure out is what size, both in terms of capacity and performance, storage system they should invest in. They need to make sure that the storage system will not…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hyper-V, Migration, Mirroring, performance, Scale-Out, SQL, Violin
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Webinar – Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy

Posted on April 2, 2014 by George Crump

Watch the On Demand Webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” IT professionals are looking for a way to use cloud storage for more than just a backup repository. They want these resources to fully participate in…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud NAS, High Availability, Hybrid, Migration, Scalability, Webinar
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Overcoming The Risk of Mixing Storage Workloads

Posted on February 20, 2014 by George Crump

Silos of storage within the storage environment are increasing at an alarming rate with each being dedicated to a specific task or workload. Why? The answer is simple: risk mitigation. The data center can’t afford to have applications experience unpredicted…