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Fixing The Performance Weakness of MSP BaaS

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Recently Storage Switzerland and Intronis held a webinar to discuss the most important aspects of rolling out a backup as a service (BaaS) cloud based backup solution. As an interactive webinar, we polled the audience at the outset of the…

Tagged with: Baas, Backup, Exchange, Intronis, MSP, NTFS, Service-level agreement, SMB, SQL, VMware, Webinar
Posted in Blog

Making Storage the VDI Solution, Not the Problem

Posted on April 9, 2013 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has found a niche in call-center types of environments where very large numbers of workers run essentially the same desktops. But in the broader market VDI hasn’t seen the same success, a fact typically blamed on…

Tagged with: Desktop virtualization, Solid-state drive, Top10-2013, VDI, VeloBit, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
Posted in Article

The Value of Real Time Backup Health Assessment

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Change is good…or is it? The sheer volume and velocity of changes taking place in IT environments today is staggering. While change may be good for business needs, if left unchecked, improperly managed changes within the backup environment could deal…

Tagged with: Backup, EMC, Hypervisor, Monitoring, Real Time, Recovery, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Article

PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…

Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis

Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction

Posted on February 27, 2013 by George Crump

While 2013 may not be the “year” of desktop virtualization, it is certainly a year where interest is increasing rapidly and real-world production deployments are beginning to occur. A key part of the success of a VDI project is the…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Boosting Server Performance

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Colm Keegan

SSD Performance Accelerated A typical flash implementation constitutes less than 1% of the overall storage provisioned in a typical production environment. Consequently, systems planners have to exercise extreme prudence when deciding how to best utilize flash storage. They have to…

Tagged with: Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, Intel, IOPS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note