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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
Posted in Briefing Note

Managing Snapshots as part of the Data Protection Process

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Three Steps to Backup and Recovery Success”, we discussed service level objectives (SLOs) and how to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Snapshots can play a key role in meeting tight RPOs…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
Posted in Blog

Analyst Opinion: Two Backup Trends for 2015

Posted on December 8, 2014 by George Crump

Users are demanding more their backup applications than ever before. Faster backups, longer retention and rapid recovery are now an expectation instead of a request. 2015 promises more of the same demands but worse, even faster backups, maybe continuous backup,…

Tagged with: backup application, Copy Data, Data Protection, Opinion, Recovery, Retention, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, TechTarget
Posted in Blog

Using EMC RecoverPoint to improve DR testing

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the key components of any disaster recovery plan is to verify that plan and make sure it works. The problem is that these tests are expensive, are not real world and are performed infrequently. In this article, we…

What is the total cost of Storage testing?

Posted on November 6, 2014 by George Crump

Welcome to the new world of storage technology evaluation. IT planners are being overwhelmed with new storage solutions to help them solve old problems. Most of these solutions leverage flash memory to help them address challenges like randomized I/O, scale…

Tagged with: HBA, I/O, Infrastructure, IOPS, Load DynamiX, Provisioning, ROI, SLA, TCO, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Backup Service Level Agreements vs. Service Level Objectives

Posted on November 3, 2014 by George Crump

Backup vendors and integrators have long tried to get organizations to set and maintain service level agreements (SLA) for various processes in their data centers including data protection. Creating SLAs for any process is a painstaking process, for data protection…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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Understanding All-Flash Architectures – Assessing the right fit for your Data Center and Workloads

Posted on September 23, 2014 by George Crump

Today in the all-flash array market there are two architectures for data centers to choose from; scale out and scale up. Both have their unique strengths and weaknesses. Deciding on the right architecture for an organization’s data center first depends…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Architectures, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Encryption, I/O, IOPS, Scale Up, SLA, Snapshots, Sprawl, Thin provisioning
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Storage Q&A: Is VM Customizable DR Protection essential?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Data protection is vitally important for your business. But not only do you have to protect your data, you have to have the right data going to the right location at the right time. After a recent video shoot with…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Storage Q&A

The Virtualized Cloud Fabric

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Video

SolidFire brings Agile Storage Infrastructure to the Enterprise

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…

Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
Posted in Briefing Note