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Storage Short: How to support 15,000 VMs on a NAS

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Eric Slack

Running a high-density virtualization environment on a NAS box is something many companies assume won’t work. But we wanted to try. In this lab test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an 8-node Hitachi HNAS system reached over…

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: Deduplication is NOT a Checkbox item

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Eric Slack

Back in the early 2000s, when deduplication first came to market, it was a new concept and people had no problem asking a lot of questions about it. Fast forward 14 years – now deduplication is almost everywhere and we’re…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
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Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility

Posted on October 8, 2014 by George Crump

Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data…

Tagged with: Cloud, CSP, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, MSP, ROI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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ExaGrid delivers Veeam Integrated Disk Backup

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Veeam Backup and Replication brings many advanced data protection and recovery features to virtualized environments. And backup appliances have become a popular way to efficiently store, recover and electronically vault virtualized data for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. The challenge is…

Is Dedupe Overrated?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Eric Slack

Advanced data reduction technologies are central to the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market segment. They shrink the amount of data that’s actually committed to storage and help make these relatively fixed capacity devices feasible. But data reduction only provides…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, PBBA, Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Recovery, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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ExaGrid and Veeam team up

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Recently Veeam and ExaGrid teamed up to create a joint solution that should make the jobs of virtual administrators easier by allowing them to tap into the full capabilities of Veeam without impacting backup performance. Veeam backup and replication brings…

Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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Can NAS handle a dense VM Environment?

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have traditionally been used for the storing of unstructured data. As these systems have increased in performance and capabilities they are being used more and more for non-traditional NAS workloads, like databases and virtualization. While…

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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New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup

Posted on September 29, 2014 by George Crump

For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Disk, High Availability, I/O, NEC, Recovery, Scaling, Virtualization
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4 assumptions that are killing your backup – Podcast

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Right after George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Gideon Senderov from NEC finished their webinar on four assumptions that are killing your backup, we got together in the podcast studio to talk about an intriguing discovery from their presentation. That’s the…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
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Making Veeam Backups better

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Colm Keegan

For many, there’s lots of room for improvement when it comes to protecting data in a virtualized environment. During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “The Five Ways Backup Design Can Impact Virtualized Data Protection”, we asked the audience what they…

Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization
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