The DS5100/6100 is a compact, network attached storage (NAS) system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world today. Although designed for the small- to medium-sized business, it features Windows Storage Server 2012…
Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The DS6100 is a compact file server system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two…
Outsourcing backup remains one of the most popular ways for businesses to embrace cloud related services. In fact, many managed services providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) have forged their initial entry into the cloud through cloud backup offerings.…
There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…
The backup process has a myriad of costs associated with them. There is the obvious cost of the hardware – backup servers, backup storage and network infrastructure. There is also the cost of operations to manage the backup process. One…
SSDs (solid state devices) are becoming more mainstream and now ‘placement’ technologies like caching are getting increased attention as users strive to get the most out of their solid state investments. Caching primary disk storage with NAND flash can improve…
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