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In the odd world that is Twitter, #fail is a tag you put on your tweet when something goes wrong in your life, at your job or when flying your least favorite airline. What do you do to...
It is important to understand how suppliers can gain sustainable competitive advantages. IT professionals need to know this so they can better understand how to assess the companies they do...
Cloud storage suppliers are the arms merchants for cloud storage. These are the guys that provide the equipment that cloud storage providers use to store user data. This layer of cloud...
There has been a growing surge of legal action in the storage and networking supplier community over the last few weeks, and no matter who the winner is, the IT professionals who use these...
As we begin to test primary storage deduplication technology, our initial findings are that the latency it introduces may be a non-issue for many data centers and applications. It may soon...
Solid State Disk (SSD) is the medium that storage managers are looking at to address storage performance problems in their environment. Deduplication is what they look at to address out of...
As we continue through our quick update of the cloud storage market, this entry will focus on the providers. I describe this group as the data asset holders and as predicted last year, this...
The cloud storage market consists of three segments: Independent Software Developers (ISV) that put a face on cloud storage, providers that actually hold the data assets and cloud storage...
As day two of the BD Event drew to a close, the closing keynote was delivered by Peter Levine of Citrix. Mr. Levine gave an excellent presentation on desktop virtualization and closed with...
Deduplication, at least from a backup standpoint, is about efficiently storing data on a backup device. Some suppliers leverage either block-based incremental, continuous data protection (...
In my last entry I discussed the value of primary storage deduplication. In that entry I stated that for the benefits of the technology to be realized the storage vendors were going to have...
With the recent buzz around a few new primary storage deduplication products, I've seen the question of primary storage deduplication's value come up more than once. After all, if you are...
In my last entry ( http://www.networkcomputing.com/backup-recovery/the-challenges-of-legacy... ) I covered some of the challenges that legacy storage vendors have when adding previously...
Sometimes it's tough being a legacy storage supplier. To maintain backward compatibility, your early success sometimes becomes your greatest inhibitor. We've seen some of these legacy...
Isn't cloud storage just Storage Service Providers with new marketing? The question came up twice last week in almost identical fashion. Obviously, there is still some confusion, and the...