Organizations have always had applications requiring the storage of their data and in some cases for that data to be immutable. In the late 1990’s, optical jukeboxes were the state of the art for this type of storage. They replaced…
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Does Google Have a Faster DRaaS Cloud? – Infrascale Briefing Note
All VMs are not created equal. Two VMs running on equivalent hardware could have different performance based on the hypervisor they’re using. And obviously two VMs using the same hypervisor could have different performance based on the underlying hardware. Could…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Infrascale, Ransomware, SSD, VM
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Webinar: Moving VMware from Disaster Recovery to High Availability
VMware’s stretch cluster does an excellent job of protecting against a site failure. If your primary data center fails then it is easy to bring up VMs in the second site. But what if you need more? How can you…
ChalkTalk Video: How to Backup Cassandra and MongoDB
Data center backup simply wasn’t built for cloud applications like Cassandra and MongoDB. That was Shalabh Goyal’s main point when I interviewed him last week as the Director of Products for Datos IO, and I couldn’t help but agree with…
The Impact of Big Backup on Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication
Thanks to data efficiency, disk is the primary backup target in most data centers. However, with backup, weeks, months and years of retention are kept and therefore the cost of straight disk is untenable. However, with data deduplication, which compares…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, DRAM, ExaGrid, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, VM
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Quorum Briefing Note – Instant Recovery Software gets Major Update
Quorum OnQ already appeared to be a solid product. OnQ is a next-gen backup and recovery product built around modern ideas of data protection. It could back up virtual or physical machines and store those backups in native (but deduplicated)…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, performance, Quorum, Recovery, Scalability, SSD, VM
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Data at your Service – Bringing Self-Service to Data Management
The business environment changed radically over the last decade. Long gone are the standard 9 to 5 working days on a Monday through Friday business model. Today, businesses are operating 24/7 365 days a year. Operations are moving to be…
More SQL Server with Fewer Licenses – DH2i Briefing Note
The cost of a SQL Server license is quite high. This is why the typical method of deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment can become exceedingly expensive. One of the advantages of virtualization is each database instance can have…
The Great Debate – Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud Storage
A recent Storage Switzerland webinar sparked an online discussion on the idea of using cloud storage services coupled with a cloud caching appliance. As with all online discussions, there were some naysayers and some supporters. I enjoy debating anything –…
Google Storage vs. Amazon Storage
I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:…
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