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Designing Data Protection for the 100% Availability Perception

Posted on January 14, 2015 by George Crump

Thanks primarily to cloud based services users have been exposed to data centers that are able to offer at least the perception of applications that never go down and data that is never deleted. A simple Google search will reveal…

Tagged with: Availability, Data Protection, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Sphere 3D and Overland Storage complete merger, introduce new VDI Appliance

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Eric Slack

On December 2nd 2014, Sphere 3D, manufacturer of the Glassware 2.0 application virtualization platform, completed the merger announced in May with longtime storage vendor Overland Storage, makers of the SnapServer NAS products, NEO tape libraries and RDX portable disk drives.…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-converged, NAS, Overland Storage, Sphere 3D, Tape, VDI, Virtualization
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014

Posted on December 29, 2014 by George Crump

2014 was a big year at StorageSwiss.com. Thanks to our readers we saw record traffic to the site. As we close out each year, it’s interesting to review the top-read articles. In 2014’s list you’ll see two common themes, flash…

Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Flash Array, Multi-Tenant, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtualization
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Primary Data provides Virtualized Data for Virtualized Infrastructures

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Colm Keegan

If Primary Data can do to data storage what VMware did to server computing, there could be a titanic shift in the storage industry in the coming years. Primary Data’s “data virtualization” platform is designed to liberate information from the…

Tagged with: Data Abstration, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Making Virtual Cloud Backup Easy with Datto – Podcast

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Cloud integrated backup and DR is getting a lot of attention from IT planners. It can help organizations improve recoverability without having to incur the cost of building out dedicated DR datacenter infrastructure. But are some of these offerings so…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data center, Data Protection, Data recovery, Datto, Disaster recovery, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Software Defined Storage… Where are we?

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In this video we give you a preview of a webinar on Software Defined Storage. Is this technology ready for prime time? Join George Crump as he Chalk-Talk’s us through Software Defined Storage. Watch the webinar on demand by clicking here.

Tagged with: server-side storage, Shared Storage, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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What is the total cost of Storage testing?

Posted on November 6, 2014 by George Crump

Welcome to the new world of storage technology evaluation. IT planners are being overwhelmed with new storage solutions to help them solve old problems. Most of these solutions leverage flash memory to help them address challenges like randomized I/O, scale…

Tagged with: HBA, I/O, Infrastructure, IOPS, Load DynamiX, Provisioning, ROI, SLA, TCO, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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How Hyperconvergence can Hyper-drive Virtualization

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Colm Keegan

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Is Convergence Right For You? 4 Questions To Ask”, we polled our audience and asked what percentage of their environment is virtualized. Over half of the respondents selected 25-50% of their environment is virtualized.…

Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Nakivo Delivers Recovery in Place

Posted on October 29, 2014 by George Crump

Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that…