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The Three Steps to an All-Flash Data Center you can afford

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

Most data does not need to be on flash storage. It is either seldom accessed, or improving the speed of its access won’t impact application performance or user productivity. But there is a core set of data in the data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Flash, Hybrid, I/O, Infrastructure, Latency, SSD, Webinar
Posted in Blog

How Snapshots CAN Be Backups – Podcast

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Snapshots have been part of the backup process for years, enabling traditional backup systems to reduce their impact on operations. But can you use snapshots to replace the backup itself? Historically, the answer has been “no”. But now, with new…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots, Webinar
Posted in Podcast

SlideShare – How to Overcome the Four Obstacles to VDI Love

Posted on October 2, 2014 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises ‘IT utopia’ by eliminating one of the biggest operational costs in the enterprise, supporting end-user desktops. But to reach this nirvana two major requirements need to be met. First, the cost per virtual desktop has…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Cost Effective, Desktop Density, IBM, VDI, Virtual desktop, Webinar
Posted in Slideshare

Storage Q&A: “The New Requirements of Backup Hardware” with Drobo and StorageSwiss

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Backup, backup, backup: it’s what everyone’s talking about these days. You have to save all those files, for one reason or the other, and probably because someone is telling you that you have to save those files. I recently sat…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Drobo, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

The ROI of Dense Virtual Machines

Posted on June 10, 2014 by George Crump

Organizations that have fully embraced virtualization are buying host-class servers to put their VMs on. This equipment is “richer” in its configuration, with more processing power, more memory and higher quality components than the typical server designed for a single…

Tagged with: Brocade, Density, Operational Transparency, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, Webinar
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Storage Q&A: on the waste of VDI only Storage

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Charlie: A lot of webinars coming up with Storage Switzerland. George Crump is with us to talk about these. George, we have everything from server-side flash, to stopping performance sprawl, 5 keys to successful hybrid cloud strategy, and avoiding the…

Tagged with: Hybrid Cloud, I/O, Infrastructure, Performance Sprawl, SAN, Server Side Flash, VDI, Virtual, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Intel, performance, Performance Sprawl, Sprawl, Webinar
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Webinar – The Four NEW Requirements of Backup Disk For Veeam Success

Posted on May 27, 2014 by George Crump

Veeam and other virtualization specific backup solutions change the game when it comes to data protection. They provide the capability to backup virtual machines rapidly and repeatedly, thanks to change block backups. Second, they provide the ability to recover virtual…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Recovery, SSD, Veeam, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Webinar

Storage Q&A: Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Charlie: I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to talk about one of our recent webinars; “How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup”. We had a large attendance for…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Recovery, Virtual desktop, Virtual Server, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

Webinar Preview: Picking the right SSD for the job – Podcast

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Micron’s Doug Rollins and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack talk about SSD and how to pick the right SSD for a specific job in your data center. This is a preview of a webinar coming up on May 14…