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Are You Storing Data in the Cloud? Where do You Store Metadata?

Posted on November 4, 2019 by George Crump

Metadata is data about data. In the case of files, metadata includes information like the last access date and last modified date. An archive or backup solution may use metadata to track the location of the file, or it may…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Should You Use Image-Based Backups on Unstructured Data?

Posted on October 30, 2019 by George Crump

Most data protection applications are not backing up unstructured data correctly. The massive increase not only in the capacity of unstructured data but also in the number of files represented within the data set makes protecting it difficult. The large…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Purpose-Built Backup for Unstructured Data

Posted on October 9, 2019 by George Crump

Unstructured data has grown dramatically in terms of total capacity, the number of files, and criticality to the organization. Home directories now represent the bulk of the organization’s creative output, and losing or not being able to find that data…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Cloud, NAS, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Meet The CEO of ExaGrid

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

In a very crowded data backup market, ExaGrid has stood the test of time and is one of the premier backup storage solutions on the market. Unlike many of its competitors, ExaGrid’s appliances can work with over 25 backup applications,…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Hyperconverged, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy, Retention
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Data Protection is the Key to Hyperconverged Adoption – HYCU Briefing Note

Posted on April 4, 2018 by George Crump

Most HCI systems are first purchased to be the platform for a specific greenfield project within an already busy data center. The goal is to expand HCI use as new projects come online or old ones are ready for IT…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Purpose Built, Recovery
Posted in Briefing Note

Overcoming Backup Appliance Conventional Wisdom – ExaGrid Briefing Note

Posted on March 7, 2018 by George Crump

There are two key assumptions when it comes to purpose-built backup appliances. First, they must have inline deduplication and second, they will all be replaced by backup software solutions as they add deduplication functionality to their software and start selling…

Tagged with: Backup, CIFS, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy
Posted in Briefing Note

ChalkTalk Video: Improving Time to Value for Enterprise Big Data Analytics

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain how to reduce time and avoid complexity of do-it-yourself analytics projects with the Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP). Purpose-built by HDS for fast-growing data analytics workloads, HSP…

Tagged with: Big data, HDS, Hitachi, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: RiverMeadow’s Cloud Mobility Platform Automates Cloud Migration Process

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Eric Slack

As cloud adoption grows in corporate data centers, companies are migrating existing workloads into the cloud, a complex, manual process that can take several hours for each server. This may be OK if you’ve moving a dozen or so, but…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Replication, Hypervisor, Migration, Purpose Built, RiverMeadow, SaaS, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: NexGen Focuses on Business Value of Data – and a Smarter Cache

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Eric Slack

Recent research by IDC predicts that IT professionals will be managing 4-5 times more data per person by 2020, but only 5% of that data will be important. So while a lot of data is being created, it’s not all…

Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, NexGen, performance, Purpose Built, QOS, Quality of service, SLA, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Violin Memory ushers in the Flash Storage Platform

Posted on February 17, 2015 by George Crump

Even though memory has always played a role in the storage infrastructure, the introduction of flash based storage has lead to rapid advancements in the evolution of storage. Today flash use has evolved from simply augmenting disk-based primary storage (hybrid…