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Integrating Data Value into Primary Storage

Posted on September 4, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: DataGravity Discovery Series V2 Data is an asset and for many organizations it is more valuable than the hardware on which it resides. Despite its value, few storage systems do anything to help IT professionals understand what is…

Tagged with: DataGravity, Flash, Hard disk, Integration, Primary Storage, SSD
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Niche section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Posted on January 21, 2015 by George Crump

In my last three columns I have analyzed the Leader, Visionary, and Challenger sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. In this column we will take a look at the most confusing part of the Gartner chart, the Niche section. Section…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Gartner, Hardware, Opinion, Primary Storage, SDS, Software, Software Defined Storage
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The role of Tape in Primary Storage Data Protection

Posted on January 7, 2015 by George Crump

Recently I discussed how primary storage, thanks to the use of replication and snapshots, can take a larger role in the data protection and application recovery process. We call this the “Primary Storage Data Protection Strategy”. But, to be effective,…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Primary Storage, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots, Tape
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Top Backup Takeaways from 2013

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, PBBA, Primary Storage, RLM, SIaaS, SLA, SSD, Tape, Virtual, Virtual machine
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The Storage Hypervisor

Posted on September 26, 2011 by George Crump

Flexibility is a key objective for many data centers. They want to respond to the needs of the business without having to slow the business down. Flexibility like this is a primary deliverable of server virtualization and one of the…

Tagged with: Hypervisor, Primary Storage, Shortcoming, Thin provisioning, Virsto, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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