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How File Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud can solve the Copy Data dilemma

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Colm Keegan

“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…

Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Storm, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, NAS, Nasuni, RPO, Security, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Enterprise-grade Backup for SMBs – WD Arkeia DA2300 Backup Appliance Part 2

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Eric Slack

This is part two of Storage Switzerland’s test drive of WD’s DA2300 Backup Appliance that features the WD Arkeia backup software. In part one we went through the set up and configuration steps, getting backup clients connected to the system…

Tagged with: Arkeia, Backup, Data Reduction, Deduplication, RAID, Replication, SMB, Storage Space, Video, Virtualization, Western Digital, Windows
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SlideShare – Four Assumptions that are killing your Backup Storage

Posted on October 24, 2014 by George Crump

Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
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What do RTO/RPO have to do with your Virtualized Environment?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by George Crump

Maintaining the right level of uptime for newly virtualized critical applications is a key requirement for virtualization administrators. In this higher stakes, virtualized world time tested techniques like establishing recovery point and recovery time objectives are as critical as ever. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump helps you design a data protection strategy for VMs that are critical to the business.

Designing Highly Scalable Storage for Dense Virtual Machine Environments

Posted on October 16, 2014 by George Crump

We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare – 5 ways your Backup Design can impact Virtualized Data Protection

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…

Can Dell be a leader in the Software Defined, Converged Data Center?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by George Crump

IDC recently recognized Dell as the leader in total terabytes sold (internal and external), and strengthened our stance that Dell is well positioned as we continue down the road to software defined storage and converged infrastructure. Dell is unique among…

Tagged with: Backup, Converged Storage, Dell, Disaster recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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vCloud Powered Data Protection-as-a-Service

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Automated data protection is becoming increasingly important given the fact that multiple IT stakeholders are taking a more active role in protecting their critical data. Virtual server administrators, database administrators and other application owners are now involved in the data…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Data Protection-as-a-Service, DPaaS, EMC, RPO, RTO, Server Virtualization, VDC, Virtual, Virtualization
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Why a 15,000 VM NAS Test is important to all Users

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an enterprise NAS system was able to successfully support 15,000 VMs. This is certainly an impressive number, and a performance spec that some larger enterprises may actually need.…