Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Why are Storage as a Service vendors targeting secondary storage applications?
The main reason why Storage as a Service is succeeding now is because SaaS vendors are targeting secondary storage applications instead of primary storage. FAQ
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Why are dense storage platforms like storage grids becoming popular?
Data rates are growing 50% per year, and most of that is unstructured data. Companies have to figure out how to put storage platforms in place that can store petabytes of data. That's why we're seeing the introduction of storage grids and other scale... FAQ
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Any other surprises in the data protection arena?
Companies in the wide-area data services (WDS) space are using products to accelerate applications so they can run with LAN-like performance... FAQ
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Any unexpected developments in the data protection market?
When vendors started selling products in the continuous data protection (CDP) space, they were primarily selling what we would call an enterprise CDP-type of solution... FAQ
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How will tape's role change?
The reports of tape's demise have always been greatly exaggerated. This is not a market that we see going away... FAQ
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How would you differentiate backup from archive requirements?
The problems you are trying to solve with backup are backup window issues, and recovery point and recovery time objective issues... FAQ
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What is the most interesting recent development in data protection technology?
Storage capacity optimization, which includes data reduction technologies like data deduplication and single instancing... FAQ
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Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Disaster Recovery Track (Chicago 2008)
Disaster recovery isn't just about being able to resume business as quickly as possible after a catastrophic incident. It's also about avoiding the situations that could jeopardize your company's reputation and good standing -- like the loss of cu... Storage Decisions
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Checklist for purchasing hardware-based encryption
Encryption appliances sit inline on a network and use specially designed electronics to encrypt data at line speeds, essentially eliminating the performance penalty imposed by encryption software running on a general server. While software-based encr... Buying Guide
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Hardware-based encryption (appliance) product specifications
The product snapshots in this chapter highlight key specifications for a cross section of dedicated encryption appliances. Buying Guide