The consumerization of IT is creating a dilemma for IT organizations. End users are demanding the ability to work from any location from any device globally and that is starting to put a lot of pressure on IT to keep…
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Webinar – How To Create An Enterprise Class File Sync and Share Solution
Two factors are leading to the increased demand for IT to offer a file sync and share solution to their users. First is the proliferation of devices. It is not uncommon for users to have three or more devices from…
Podcast – Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?
In this podcast, I interview one of Storage Switzerland’s Senior Analyst Colm Keegan and our Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump to talk to them about our on demand webinar “Is Server Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup”. After all he has…
Tagged with: Backup, disk backup, ExaGrid, Podcast, Server Virtualization, Webinar
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Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?
Once thought eliminated through storage networking via storage consolidation, storage hardware sprawl is worse than ever. As we discussed in our webinar, “How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl“, there are several reasons for this. First, there are more workload types…
Tagged with: Coho Data, Flash, Hybrid, Sprawl, Storage Hardware, Virtualization, Webinar
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Webinar – How Server Virtualization Is Breaking Disk Backup
Disk Backup Appliances have traditionally featured deduplication as the primary selling point. While efficiently storing protected data is critical, the ability to scale your systems to meet rampant data growth – while maintaining backup windows and meeting recovery objectives –…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Recovery, Virtualization, Webinar, White paper
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Virtualized Cloud Acceleration
During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, we discussed the need for organizations to consider software based approaches to accelerating WAN performance. Interestingly, our polling question revealed that 31% of the webinar participants were trying to determine why there is even…
Tagged with: Accelerator, Cloud, QOS, RPO, RTO, Silver Peak, Software Defined, Virtual, WAN, Webinar
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On Demand Webinar – How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl
Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. Even in the so-called shared storage environment,…
Is All-flash Ready for the Data Center?
Ever since NAND flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to enterprise storage devices the idea of simply filling up a storage array with SSDs has been out there. It certainly makes sense from a logical perspective as server-side…
Driving Down The Cost of Forever – How To Keep Data For A Long Time
Retaining data is about more than compliance, now organizations want to keep data sets because they can leverage them to make better decisions or re-sell that data. In short there is money in the data; but you have to have…
How To Design a 2 Million IOPS Storage Architecture
In order for databases to scale, virtual environments to become denser, and analytics to become more real-time, storage performance needs to scale. That means designing storage architectures that not only meet the needs of today’s applications but also the needs…
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