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ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays

Watch this ChalkTalk Video with Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump to learn the four steps to getting all-flash performance from a hybrid array. Hybrid arrays have a clear price advantage over all-flash storage systems because they leverage hard disk

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Dell World 2014 Solutions Expo Fluid Cache and Entry Level All-Flash Array $25k

At Dell World 2014 we spent quite a bit of time on the solutions expo floor interviewing Dell product specialists and getting up close with the hardware. In this video we discuss Dell Fluid Cache and Dell’s new entry All-Flash

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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”

Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell

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Cloud Integrated Backup and DR

The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because

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What is the cost of Application Downtime?

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long

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Reader Question: Is Object Storage for Normal Data Centers?

One of the things I like about participating on the forums on Spiceworks is I get great, raw questions. One came in this week during a discussion around object storage. “I’d like to consider myself reasonably clued up, but I

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Low cost Cloud Backup and High Availability

Is high availability an affordable option for small to medium sized businesses? Many large enterprise data center environments utilize server clustering and replication technology to protect their critical business systems from disruptive outages. And while these solutions can provide the

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Flash Strategy Keynote at the 2014 Technology Summit – Podcast

Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump will be the keynote speaker at the Dallas Digital Services 2014 Technology Summit. George joins Howie Evans from Dallas Digital in this Storage Podcast. Dallas – Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst,

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Datto makes Virtual Hybrid Cloud Backup easy

Many businesses and service providers (SPs) are looking for ways to leverage cloud based backup solutions. For businesses, backing up data into the cloud represents a cost-effective way to manage the day-to-day task of protecting critical business data. For service

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Webinar: Designing Cloud Backup to reduce DR downtime for IT Professionals

IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center.  That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup

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