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Briefing Note: Intronis Reverses Backups and Simplifies Delivery

Posted on March 6, 2015 by George Crump

One task that many data centers would like to get rid of is data protection. Offering it as a service is not only popular with managed service providers (MSP) and value-added resellers (VAR), it also launches many of them into…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Intronis, MSP, Protection, Recovery, VAR
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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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How Software-defined Storage is Enabling Snapshot-based Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Eric Slack

Snapshots are powerful tools for creating a primary storage data protection system, one that offers faster recovery and can even replace traditional backup altogether. But protecting against primary storage system failure, which would render the snapshots useless, requires a second…

How to Beat Dropbox

Posted on February 17, 2015 by George Crump

Almost every laptop I see has Dropbox installed on it. It’s easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and works 99% of the time. Users love it, but Dropbox does have its problems. First, it removes data out from under the control…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Dropbox, Enterprise, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Protection
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Storage News for Feb. 14 – Podcast

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Here are some of the latest headlines from Storage Switzerland. Lead Analyst George Crump joins me on the podcast. Click below for links to the blogs on Storage Swiss relating to each story: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance…

Tagged with: Arcserve, Asigra, Catalogic, DH2i, Nexenta, Protection, Virtual Instruments
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Storage News Update Feb. 7 – Podcast

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Lots of traveling coming up and a review of storage acquisitions are in this week’s Storage News Update from Storage Switzerland. Lead Analyst George Crump joins me on this week’s news podcast. Click here to learn more about George’s talks…

Tagged with: Brocade, Data Protection Workshop, Protection, Riverbed, Tech Target, Veeam
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Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…

Solving the concerns of NOT going All-Flash – Podcast

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up for a webinar on the four things you can do to a Hybrid Array to achieve All-Flash performance. Joining me in the podcast talk about webinar attendee concerns about a hybrid flash are George Crump…