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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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Hybrid Powered Cloud Storage

In a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, “Building A Hybrid Cloud Storage”, we polled the audience about why they were considering cloud storage. 60% of the respondents selected: “to lower costs”. This is not surprising given the fact that many of

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Come to the Data Storage Innovation Conference – Podcast

Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and I talk to David Dale, the Chairman of the Board for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) about the upcoming Data Storage Innovation Conference (DSI), to be held April 22 to 24 in Santa

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Attaining Ongoing Storage Savings

Data center planners tasked with lowering the cost of storage have an unenviable job. Several industry sources state that data is doubling every two years and the principal source of this growth is unstructured data (user files, PDFs, rich multimedia,

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Need Consulting? We can help. – Podcast

Who better to help you with your storage issues than to get input from the folks who you listen to here! Lead Analyst George Crump talks about the consulting service we provide at Storage Switzerland. Subscribe to our podcasts at

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Why Data Management is Cool Again

Our top read article, by far, recently is “What is Data Profiling”. My colleagues Eric Slack and Colm Keegan also just hosted a well attended webinar, “How To Attain Sustainable Storage Savings“, now available on demand. At the core of

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Object Storage is Confusing but its Benefits are Clear

Object Storage is attracting more vendors as the technology moves ‘out of the clouds’ and closer to what could be called “mainstream” IT, at least that seems to be the objective based on the discussions at this year’s NextGen Object

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Do SMB Data Centers Need Object Storage?

Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit (NGSS) this week and yesterday we wrapped up our focus on Object Storage. One of the questions coming out of the summit is how do you know if your

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2014 Next Generation Storage Summit Kicks Off with Object Focus

Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland and a host of other industry influencers are spending the next day or so at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit (NGOSS). As is usually the case at these events, we opened with the ongoing

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Why Enterprises Need Hybrid Cloud Storage

Most industry sources estimate that approximately 90% of all new data growth in corporate data centers today is from unstructured data. In some environments this data is nearly doubling every two years, creating a serious scaling challenge for traditional storage

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