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The New SMB Data Center – Podcast

Paul Chen from WD, Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland and I sat down recently to talk about the changing face of IT in small and medium sized businesses. There are a lot of changes taking place as you’ll hear in

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The Right Way for SMBs to Get into the Cloud

Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The cloud is an attractive option for small to medium-sized businesses because it allows a company

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A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast

I just caught up with Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland on a webinar Storage Switzerland is doing with WD on May 21. It will cover SMB’s and the need to update or even build a data center. To register for

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A One-box Upgrade for Small Business IT – Part 2

The DS5100/6100 is a compact, network attached storage (NAS) system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world today. Although designed for the small- to medium-sized business, it features Windows Storage Server 2012

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Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be More than a NAS

Watch the On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons Why an SMB’s First Server Should Be More Than a NAS” to get an exclusive white paper. Small to Medium-sized Business (SMB) owners face some unique challenges regarding IT. They understand the value

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A One-Box Upgrade for Small Business IT

Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The DS6100 is a compact file server system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two

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Webinar – Bringing Cloud / Object Storage to the Tier 2 and SMB Data Center

The object storage systems used by cloud storage providers (CSPs) are designed to bring scalability, reliability, and near zero management to their data centers while significantly reducing storage acquisition costs through the use of commodity drives. These attributes are in

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Fixing The Performance Weakness of MSP BaaS

Recently Storage Switzerland and Intronis held a webinar to discuss the most important aspects of rolling out a backup as a service (BaaS) cloud based backup solution. As an interactive webinar, we polled the audience at the outset of the

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High Performance Storage For The SMB

As the Small to Medium Size (SMB) data center continues to increase its level of virtualization, it is being faced with performance demands – not unlike the enterprise – that result from multiple virtual machines per physical host. In fact,

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