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Four NEW requirements for backup – Podcast

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland and Drobo held a webinar on Wednesday, July 11th on four new requirements for backup. Joe Disher from Drobo and George Crump from Storage Switzerland join me to talk about the webinar. Click here to view the webinar on…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Drobo, Flash, Hard disk drive, NAS, Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Podcast

ChalkTalk Video – How disk backup breaks Recovery in Place

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Recovery in Place, offered by companies like Veeam, Dell’s AppAssure and PHD Virtual, is a powerful and valuable feature. It allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and executed directly from the backup device instead of having to transfer…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Recovery in Place, SSD, Storage, Virtual machine
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Spectra Logic nTier Verde – simple, affordable Enterprise file storage

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Eric Slack

Primary storage is being overwhelmed by data growth, much of it unstructured digital content. These are large files that don’t change but must still remain online, often for extended periods of time. Tier-1 storage systems are too expensive, especially over…

Tagged with: CIFS, Data Retention, Enterprise storage, Error Correction Code, NFS, RAID, SpectraLogic, Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis

Keys to Successful Hybrid Cloud Strategies – Podcast

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Avere System’s Mark Eastman and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan talk with us about Five Keys to a Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy. Watch our webinar “Five Keys to a Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” and get an exclusive…

Tagged with: Avere, Backup, backup system, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Hybrid Cloud, Storage
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Panel Discussion – Don’t Let Storage Eat Your Hyper-V Savings

Posted on June 3, 2014 by George Crump

In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in both the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers at a…

Tagged with: Hyper-V, SMB, Starwind Software, Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar

ChalkTalk Video: SSD Trends in 2014 – Flash moves from Option to Requirement

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

For most companies that are considering flash-based SSDs it’s no longer a question of whether they’ll implement solid state drives, but when and how. In this video George Crump, Lead Analyst From Storage Switzerland and Micron’s Sr. Manager of Enterprise…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Flash memory, Micron, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
Posted in Video

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

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, SMB, Solid-state drive, Storage, Storage area network, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast

What to look for in flash accelerated software – Podcast

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Are solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM a good thing for businesses that want to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability? We’ll talk about that with Pernix Data. Read Colm’s Article, Choosing the Right Flash…

Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Storage Architecture, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Podcast

The Next Generation Data Center – Podcast

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Changes are coming to the Data Center. It will be highly virtualized with extremely high virtual machine densities. It will thrive on flexibility, cost and efficiency. To talk about The Next Generation Data Center is Jay Prassl from SolidFire and Storage Switzerland…

Tagged with: Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Scale-Out, Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Avoid the Waste of a VDI-Only Storage Solution – Podcast

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland hosted a Webinar with Fusion-io recently on VDI in the Data Center. George Crump and I discuss challenges that VDI places on storage that are covered in the webinar. To watch the on-demand Webinar, please click below:

Tagged with: Fusion-io, Solid-state drive, Storage, Storage Switzerland, VDI, Webinar
Posted in Podcast