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Storage News and Insight for the week of March 14
Tagged with: Cloud storage, Dell, Exablox, Software Defined Storage, Star-Tech, Storage Decisions 2015, Tech Target, Veeam, X-IO
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Analyst Blog: What is Real Software Defined Storage?
When it comes to defining specific parts of the storage industry the definition should be as general as possible, avoiding vendor specifics while not being so generic that it becomes useless and doesn’t categorize anything. We’ve successfully applied this philosophy…
Software-Defined Storage – Over-Hyped or Overdue?
The interest in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is at an all-time high and data center operators want to know if now is the time to move towards this type of a storage infrastructure. In our latest workshop series “Software Defined Storage…
Tagged with: Infrastructure, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden
When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Are there Problems with Software Defined Storage?
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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How Software-defined Storage is Enabling Snapshot-based Data Protection
Snapshots are powerful tools for creating a primary storage data protection system, one that offers faster recovery and can even replace traditional backup altogether. But protecting against primary storage system failure, which would render the snapshots useless, requires a second…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Protection, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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The Three Problems with Software Defined Storage
Software defined storage (SDS) promises to reduce storage capital and operational costs by abstracting data services from the storage hardware. To deliver on these promises, SDS typically enables the use of commodity storage which should lower storage acquisition costs. It…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, FalconStor, Flash, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, Migration, SAN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage area network
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Briefing Note: Springpath Delivers SDS from the Ground Up
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
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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Copy Data vs. Snapshots
As I discussed in an earlier column “Not All Snapshots are the Same”, storage systems that use a re-directed snapshot technique can typically maintain thousands of snapshots without impacting storage performance. But just because you can maintain thousands of snapshots,…
Tagged with: Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Point-in-Time, Retention, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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