IT Cloak and Dagger With the advent of cloud computing, all it takes is the swipe of a credit card to instantly get more storage capacity. Likewise, some users may just opt to purchase their own physical storage and keep…
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Increase performance, lower Storage costs in a single solution
In general, IT organizations have been conditioned to think that the only way to obtain higher storage performance and to gain additional storage capacity is to periodically upgrade their storage infrastructure. While storage system upgrades can provide a boost in…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud NAS, NAS, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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Four NEW requirements for backup – Podcast
Storage Switzerland and Drobo held a webinar on Wednesday, July 11th on four new requirements for backup. Joe Disher from Drobo and George Crump from Storage Switzerland join me to talk about the webinar. Click here to view the webinar on…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Drobo, Flash, Hard disk drive, NAS, Storage, Unstructured data
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Posted in Podcast
ChalkTalk Video – How To Overcome The NetApp Capacity Gap
Join Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump and Crossroads Systems Executive Vice President of Strategy, David Cerf in this ChalkTalk video as they detail the problems with the growing NetApp Environment and how new solutions are coming to market that…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, ChalkTalk, Crossroads, NAS, NetApp, Unstructured data
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Hybrid Cloud Storage for the SMB
It’s time for the SMB data center to come out of the closet. For far too long, many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have operated their IT infrastructures on shoestring budgets by resorting to consumer grade systems, like laptops and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data deduplication, Disaster recovery, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, SMB, storage efficiency, Western Digital
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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…
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…
Tagged with: Avere, Cloud, Cloud Gateway, Cloud NAS, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Scalability
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How a NAS can be the IT Upgrade an SMB Needs
When a small company is in a business that leverages online interactions with their customers they’re committing themselves to providing the kind of uptime, accuracy and responsiveness that the general public is used to. For many small to medium-sized businesses…
The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS
Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Sharing, Data Protection, NAS, ROI, SMB, TCO, Western Digital
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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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