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Analyst Blog: Are there Problems with Software Defined Storage?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent article we discussed three potential problems with software defined storage (SDS). When we write these types of articles the goal is to bring to light areas of consideration for IT professionals contemplating taking the SDS plunge. The…

Tagged with: Converged, Disaster recovery, FUD, Replication, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Overcoming the Challenges of Snapshot Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by George Crump

In February Storage Switzerland held two webinars that used similar techniques to address an age old problem: data protection. Both of these webinars asked primary storage to take a larger role in its own protection. One webinar discussed using snapshots…

Tagged with: Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, performance, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Briefing Note: Springpath Delivers SDS from the Ground Up

Posted on February 18, 2015 by George Crump

In the future, the data center’s storage architecture should be able to scale elastically, automatically adapting to performance demands. It should also be more than just reliable; it should be self-healing, and deliver these capabilities with cloud economics. This future…

Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, performance, Replication, Scale, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Software Defined Storage grows up with FalconStor FreeStor

Posted on February 18, 2015 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) is still in its infancy. While there are exceptions, like Atlantis Computing, Nexenta and DataCore, vendors in the space are for the most part startups looking to get their first hundred or so customers. FalconStor’s new…

Tagged with: Cluster, Deduplication, FalconStor, Flash, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Tape, 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…

Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
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Storage Q&A: High Availability for Data Centers of all Sizes

Posted on February 4, 2015 by George Crump

SIOS Technologies and Storage Switzerland recently joined forces for a highly attended webinar. The attendees asked some outstanding questions about flexible HA and DR for virtual servers and cloud environments. Joining Storage Switzerland Founder and Chief Steward George Crump on…

Tagged with: Asynchronous, High Availability, Hypervisor, RAID, Redundancy, Replication, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, Synchronous
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Briefing Note: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance

Posted on February 3, 2015 by George Crump

Backup appliances have become a popular method for backup software vendors to deliver their software. It eliminates much of the hassle of initial installation and makes on-going support easier, since the vendor is now dealing with a more common foundation.…

Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Migration, Replication, Tape, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: NetApp upgrades EF Arrays to address Performance First Workloads

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

Flash storage is being used in three areas of the data center infrastructure. First, flash and all-flash arrays are seeing adoption in both server and desktop computing environments, as well as mid-range database applications. Second, for databases that demand extremely…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Converged, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Mirroring, NAND, NetApp, performance, Replication, Scale Up, Snapshots
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What’s wrong with using Snapshots for Data Protection?

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Eric Slack

Snapshots are a standard feature of most storage systems today. They offer a remarkable ability to save a file at specific points in time without actually making a copy of it; in fact, they’re also referred to as “point in…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Metadata, Nexenta, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined
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