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02/22/2010 05:00 AM
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SnapServer SAN S2000 Gives SMBs Affordable Way to Scale into and Protect Virtual Server Environments
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Numerous surveys show that the adoption of server virtualization is poised to take off in small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). But what can get overlooked in this trend is that greater than 70% of these virtual server deployments that occur in SMB ...
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02/11/2010 05:00 AM
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Three Attributes that any Storage Solution for a Mid-sized Organization's Windows Consolidation and Virtualization Project Should Include
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Virtualization, consolidation and servers are becoming inextricably linked in the minds of mid-sized organizations as they look to reduce data center footprints and energy consumption while increasing server hardware utilization. Yet what can get ...
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02/09/2010 05:00 AM
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iSCSI has Setup Mid-Sized Organizations for a 2010 Data Migration Wakeup Call
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In 2007, IDC estimated that 211 PBs of iSCSI storage was shipped worldwide. This grew to 500 PBs shipped in 2008 and was ...
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01/28/2010 05:00 AM
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NAS Gets the Nod over iSCSI as one SMB's Preferred Backup Protocol
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Some of the most read blogs on DCIG's website in 2009 covered how small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were implementing disk-based backup in their environments. So it should come ...
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12/31/2009 05:00 AM
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Top 10 DCIG Blogs of 2009 Written in 2009
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This is one of my favorite blogs of the year to write. Even though this is only the second time since DCIG launched its blogging site two years ago that I have had the opportunity to write a blog in this format, I have been looking forward to looking ...
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12/28/2009 05:00 AM
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One College Uncovers Six Compelling Reasons to use the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d for D2D Backup
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Everyone has backup problems, and educational institutions with limited budgets and IT staff may feel the pain of backup more so than most. In a previous blog, ...
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11/13/2009 05:00 AM
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Tape is Slowly Dying at a Growth Rate of 2-3% per Year; Estorian Announces New CEO
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There is no longer any doubt in my mind that tape will be around long after I am gone. Not only did Spectra Logic announce a new tape library (the iSCSI or NFS for an SMB's Virtualized Server Environment: How to Determine Which is Best
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As I wrote previously, many small and medium businesses (SMBs) can gain some real benefits from server virtualization with the RELDATA Updates Private Storage Cloud Offering to Meet Emerging Needs of Midsize Businesses
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It is commonly suspected that midsize organizations have the same priorities as their enterprise counterparts especially when it comes to managing their IT infrastructures. However a study released a few months ago removed whatever doubt may have existed ...
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09/18/2009 05:00 AM
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Pliant Looks to Break Enterprise Storage Glass Ceiling with SSD Brick; Cloud Storage Encroaches on Server Virtualization
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Solid State Disk (SSD) is showing up across the technology spectrum from consumer grade laptops and PCs to enterprise storage systems. But until this week it can be argued that there really was not an SSD drive that was ready to withstand the scrutiny ...
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09/08/2009 05:00 AM
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The Real Benefits that an SMB can Expect to Glean from Server Virtualization
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Most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have limited IT budgets so when it comes to storing data and reducing costs and complexity they must do so wisely. Further, most have few or no IT personnel so they also need technology solutions that ...
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04/30/2009 05:00 AM
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The Only VMware-certified NAS in its Category: Why the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200r Will Resonate with Small Businesses
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On April 16, 2009, the Iomega® StorCenter Pro ix4-200r was unveiled to the world and was subsequently greeted with an almost universal chorus of "oh's" and "ah's" by
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11/17/2008 05:00 AM
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Crafting a Proper Backup & Recovery Service Level Agreement
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Anyone who works as an end-user is continually confronted
with crafting The Third Generation BlueArc Titan Puts Oomph in Networked File Systems; Is There an "Oops" in its Support?
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It isn't enough for a vendor to make claims about their storage system; they should have to prove it. In a recent briefing with
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09/26/2008 01:00 PM
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Spinning Down Production Disk Drives and 200:1 Dedupe Ratios; New Vendors Claim to Fame at NYC Storage Decisions
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My visit to this fall's Storage Decisions conference in New York City on Wednesday, September 24, was an abbreviated stay. I only had the afternoon to spend at the conference ...
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09/17/2008 05:00 AM
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Cisco Bows Out of Infiniband; Appliances Join the Virtual World; Notes from Day 2 at VMworld
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09/16/2008 08:00 AM
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FalconStor Soars into VMworld with a Passion
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This week at VMworld FalconStor anno
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09/04/2008 01:00 PM
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Replication no Afterthought on Snap Server NAS
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Anecdotal evidence gathered by DCIG suggests that 50 percent or more of all companies deploying disk-based storage systems in multiple sites as backup targets are also opting to purchase replication software that replicates data between sites for ...
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08/15/2008 05:00 AM
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Wasabi Systems: A Snake Waiting to Bite Someone
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Have you ever been out hiking, minding your own business, when all of a sudden you see something moving in your peripheral vision? Because you're not sure what you saw you stand real still so whatever it was doesn't bite you. Well, that was my first ...
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08/05/2008 05:00 AM
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Living the Storage Consolidation Dream, Part II
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The dream of storage consolidation for distributed systems is closely patterned after the model that was established early-on in mainframe ...
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07/24/2008 05:00 AM
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If Disks are Round, Brown and Spinning, Why is Storage So Hard?
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Years ago when I first got involved in storage, I couldn't figure out why storage management was so difficult. In fact, I initially had a hard time even keeping myself busy in my job as a storage administrator. While I was on a storage management team ...
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07/09/2008 05:00 AM
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Dell and the Channel - Commitment or Dalliance?
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Normally I don't pay much attention to press releases such as the one that came out a couple of days ago from
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06/05/2008 05:00 AM
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Exploration into Infiniband
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I believe a new way on thinking should be applied to the deployment on Infiniband technology in the storage landscape. Most of you probably think of Infiniband as predominately a backend transport ...
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06/03/2008 12:00 PM
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"EMC and HDS are Chubby While 3PAR is Thin"; The Need to Stripe VMware ESX Paging Volumes
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"You know things are tough when companies finally stop throwing capacity at their infrastructure problems and start thinking about how they provision and allocate storage."
Those are the sentiments that Quantum's DXi Deduplicating Portfolio Delivers Needed Choices for Corporate Backup
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In a previous blog entry, I took a look at some of the challenges created by deduplicating and replicating backup data from remote offices to a home ...
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04/28/2008 08:00 AM
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Overland Storage Layers in Disk-Based Data Protection
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In case no one has noticed lately, the number of ways in which companies can configure disk-based storage systems to protect their data has multiplied significantly. This fact was brought clearly into ...
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04/17/2008 06:00 AM
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"Disk is Too Slow and Unreliable"; Energy XXI's Experience with D2D Backup Part 1 of 2
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Last week I saw a first-of-its-kind announcement in an April 9th press release from Hifn Inc Misses Briefing; Symantec's SNW User Surveys Reveal Virtual Feedback; SNW Day 3 Snapshots
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I apologize to those of you who expected this SNW recap last Thursday or Friday. Wednesday ending up being busier than I expected and anyone who was flying last week knows about the challenges associated with air travel due to all of the grounded ...
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03/17/2008 06:00 AM
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Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Windows Gets Resounding "YES"; Still Flailing in Its VMware Support
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Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation Suite has come ...
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02/18/2008 07:00 AM
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LeftHand Networks Announces New Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA); VSA Circumvents VMotion SAN Prerequisite
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Over the last few years LeftHand Networks has quietly - or maybe not so quietly - grown its install base to 9000. Like a growing number of storage-centric businesses, it has developed a customer niche in the small and midsize enterprise (SME) market ...
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10/18/2007 08:12 AM
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Virtualization and Online Backup: A New Win-Win Scenario
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VMWare has captured the attention of the storage space unlike any other technology in quite some time. VMWare's primary value proposition is virtualizing multiple physical Linux, NetWare, Windows and Solaris servers on a single physical server. While ...
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10/12/2007 09:00 AM
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (Part 1 of 3)
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This week I've spent much of my time talking to Cisco, HP, EMC and Fibre Channel Industry Association Chairman Skip Jones. Monday afternoon I spent time talking to Claudio DeSanti, ...
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