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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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Why You Should Consider Server Caching for Virtualization

Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash

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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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Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape

The cost of disk capacity has come down dramatically over the last two decades and, thanks to technologies like scale-out NAS and object storage, the ability to manage petabytes of data is certainly a possibility. But the cost to power

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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 3 Problems With Adding Capacity To Your NAS – And How To Solve Them

Disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have become the workhorse of the data center. These systems are the first responders to the rampant growth of unstructured data facing organizations of all sizes. As a result, these organizations need to

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Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be More than a NAS

Watch the On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons Why an SMB’s First Server Should Be More Than a NAS” to get an exclusive white paper. Small to Medium-sized Business (SMB) owners face some unique challenges regarding IT. They understand the value

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What Is The Data Protection Continuum?

In an era where business end-users have increasingly more options and autonomy for deciding how they will protect their application data, it is critically important for today’s IT organizations to provide more choices. By building a data protection infrastructure that

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SlideShare – Are File Servers Holding Users Back? – How To Increase User Productivty While Improving Data Security

This SlideShare covers the importance of business class file sync, share and collaborate and why the storage team should lead the effort. The on-demand webinar features audio from George Crump, Founder and Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Soonr’s VP

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Rethinking Enterprise Storage

With soaring data growth occurring across all industries, IT planners need to rethink how they design and implement enterprise storage technology. Traditional NAS and SAN platforms have served as the bulwark of data center storage capacity for decades, however, storing

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