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Orchestrating Copy Data

Posted on February 16, 2015 by George Crump

2015 will be THE year of copy data management. Multiple vendors will bring solutions to the market. Many of these solutions will leverage snapshot technology in one form or another in an effort to reduce the capacity requirements of secondary…

Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Catalogic, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev, Virtual machine
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Analyst Blog: Should Enterprises replace NAS with Object Storage?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, Internet of Things, IoT, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: VI’s VirtualWisdom4 shows you how to Manage your Open Systems Performance

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtual Instruments provides active system monitoring and management solutions that generate a significant amount of data to improve SAN efficiency and performance. But users need more than an abundance of information to effectively manage their environments. In fact, this profusion…

Briefing Note: Catalogic releases Zero-Touch Copy Data Solution

Posted on February 11, 2015 by George Crump

If primary data is growing, the copies made of that data are exploding, with a growth rate expected to be 10X that of primary data. These copies are most often used for data protection, test/development, compliance, archive, and analytics. Fortunately,…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtual machine, VM
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Quantum’s Q-Cloud Integrates the Cloud into StorNext and DXi Environments

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

The cloud offers a number of significant benefits for IT organizations, especially flexibility, as it allows companies to expand resource capacity on a moment’s notice. Cloud-based storage and services also provide a way to shift infrastructure costs from upfront, capital…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disk, Efficiency, Hybrid, Metadata, Quantum, Scale-Out, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance

Posted on February 3, 2015 by George Crump

Backup appliances have become a popular method for backup software vendors to deliver their software. It eliminates much of the hassle of initial installation and makes on-going support easier, since the vendor is now dealing with a more common foundation.…

Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Migration, Replication, Tape, Virtual machine
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The Value of an Independent Storage Performance Testing Platform

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

The more virtual machines per host, or users per application, the more cost effective an environment becomes. And the more environments that can be supported by a single storage system the more cost effective the storage infrastructure becomes. But increased…

Tagged with: I/O, Infrastructure, Load DynamiX, performance, Storage, Testing Platform, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Ravello enables traditional Data Centers to leverage the Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent article “How Traditional Data Centers Should Use The Cloud” we discussed the concept of starting the application development process in the cloud and then migrating that application on-premises when development is complete. This approach saves the startup…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Metadata, Ravello, SaaS, Software as a service, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMDK
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Storage Q&A: How to run Virtual Machines on your OpenStack Infrastructure

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Open vStorage has a new product that will allow you to run virtual machines right on your OpenStack Infrastructure. Storage Crump Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and Open vStorage Product Manager Wim Provoost sat down with me in the…

Tagged with: Block Based Storage, CEPH, Cloud, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, Open vStorage, performance, Scale, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Unitrends delivers Flash in a Backup Appliance

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Dedicated backup appliances have become a very popular method for deploying data protection software. They significantly reduce implementation time and greatly streamline ongoing support. But backup appliances face a challenge; everything around them is getting bigger and faster. Making sure…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Flash, Metadata, Recovery, Solid State Disk, Unitrends, Virtual machine
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