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The Storage Challenges of Desktop as a Service

Posted on June 30, 2015 by George Crump

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and has the potential to reduce the upfront costs and scaling issues associated with deploying virtual desktops. But these cloud hosted users still need to be able…

Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, GFS, Global File System, Latency, Replication, VDI, VPN
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Eliminating RPO/RTO With Affordable Secondary Storage

Posted on June 19, 2015 by George Crump

Backup 2.0 Workshop On The Way To London We completed Backup 2.0 Dallas and we will be in London on October 22nd. A popular session during the workshop discusses leveraging secondary storage and creating a usable copy of data that is only a…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, SLO, Snapshot, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Data as a Supply Chain – SANS Technology

Posted on June 18, 2015 by George Crump

All data has a lifecycle or supply chain attached to it, and storage systems need to respond differently to data as it moves through each link in this chain. The problem is that most data centers treat all data the same,…

Tagged with: Data Protection, DRaaS, FC, file sync and share, Hyper-converged, ISCSI, NAS, Replication, SAN, SANS Technology
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Briefing Note: Why buy a Backup Appliance from a Disk Drive Vendor?

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

Seagate CSS (Cloud Systems and Solutions), a division of this long-time disk drive manufacturer, was put together to develop storage infrastructure solutions for the hyper-scale cloud provider and OEM markets, among others. More than just a component manufacturer ‘moving up…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Hybrid, Hyper-scale, PBBA, Replication, Seagate, SMB, Software Defined
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Briefing Note: Is it time to Hyper-converge Backups?

Posted on May 26, 2015 by George Crump

Convergence and hyper-convergence are two concepts that have proven to be very popular with data centers, allowing them to shorten implementation times and in some cases condense the IT stack to simplify operations and support. But these concepts have mostly…

Tagged with: Compression, Convergence, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-convergence, Replication, Rubrik
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Briefing Note: Zerto brings Hypervisor-to-Hypervisor Replication

Posted on May 8, 2015 by George Crump

Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a…

Tagged with: Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Zerto
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Software Defined Storage is more than Cost Reduction

Posted on April 29, 2015 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts data services from the storage hardware, eliminating vendor lock in. With SDS a data center can be a mixture of different vendors’ storage solutions and the storage systems can be the best of breed for…

Tagged with: Cache, Clone, Clones, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning
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ChalkTalk Video – What is Software Defined Storage?

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

In this ChalkTalk Video Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and FalconStor VP of Corporate Marketing Tim Sheets explain what Software Defined Storage (SDS) is, what to look for in a SDS solution and how to determine if SDS makes…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, FalconStor, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning, Tiering
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How to safely use 8TB Drives in the Enterprise

Posted on April 8, 2015 by George Crump

After a few year hiatus higher capacity hard drives are coming to market. We expect 8TB drives to be readily available before the end of the year with 10TB drives soon to follow. And at the rate that capacity demands…