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Why “Mostly” isn’t Enough in Backup – and what to do about it

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Eric Slack

Part time insurance is a dangerous thing. You need to be covered all the time in all situations. The IT professionals in charge of backup live this. Comprehensive backup is good insurance but a backup solution that leaves even one…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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Briefing Note: Rovius provides the Mobility to realize Virtual Platform and Cloud Freedom

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Eric Slack

With the move towards software-defined infrastructures and commodity-based hardware, companies are getting used to freedom and flexibility in IT. They also expect that freedom in the cloud, including the ability to move between platforms, clouds and hypervisors easily as they…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Hypervisor, Protection, Rovius, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Podcast – Fixing fractured backup and bad DR

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Zetta found in a recent survey of IT pros from a cross-section of companies that IT environments in most companies are a conglomeration of operating systems, platforms and backup solutions and that backup is a mess for most companies and DR…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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The Criticality of Cabling Infrastructure in High Performance Storage Networking

Posted on March 24, 2015 by George Crump

Pushed by initiatives like high density virtualization, online database applications and low latency flash storage, fibre channel (FC) storage networking is entering a new era sooner than expected. These initiatives are forcing the move to 16Gb FC networking at a…

Tagged with: Cabling, Data Center Systems, FC, Fibre Channel, LAN, performance, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR

Posted on March 17, 2015 by George Crump

As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?

Posted on March 13, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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Software-Defined Storage – Over-Hyped or Overdue?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by George Crump

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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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: Convergence for the SME gets simpler with Scale Computing Hypercore 6.0

Posted on February 24, 2015 by George Crump

Most converged infrastructures are designed to help enterprise data centers rapidly roll-out virtual infrastructures. As we discuss in our column “What Are Converged Infrastructures? – Hardware Convergence” many of these converged systems are a pre-integrated optimization of independent hardware solutions.…

Tagged with: Backup, Converged Infrastructure, Disaster recovery, dr, Scale Computing, SME, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: NexGen Focuses on Business Value of Data – and a Smarter Cache

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Eric Slack

Recent research by IDC predicts that IT professionals will be managing 4-5 times more data per person by 2020, but only 5% of that data will be important. So while a lot of data is being created, it’s not all…