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PDF: Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI SAN
Which technology is right for your organization? The team at SearchStorage.com helps you select the right SAN for your unique requirements.
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April 25, 2018
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Unitrends VMware backup takes swipe at Veeam
The Unitrends VMware backup product that launched today is going directly after one of the data protection vendor's major competitors. VM Backup Essentials (vBE) converges many features the vendor ...
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April 12, 2018
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Apr'18
OwnBackup lands $15.5M to fund further SaaS backup
OwnBackup closed its largest funding round to date and will use it to propel product work and double employee headcount, the cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor said today. The $15.5 million ...
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April 02, 2018
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Large investor Elliott challenges Commvault management
Investors cheered hedge fund Elliott Management’s disclosed stake in Commvault today, which will likely lead to a shakeup of the data management vendor’s management team and board. Elliott, citing ...
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April 02, 2018
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Apr'18
Zerto replication backs IBM Resiliency Orchestration
IBM has enlisted Zerto as the muscle behind physical and virtual data protection. The Zerto replication engine is powering IBM's Resiliency Orchestration disaster recovery as a service. IBM’s ...
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storage medium (storage media)
In computers, a storage medium is any technology -- including devices and materials -- used to place, keep and retrieve electronic data. Continue Reading
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Random Access Memory (RAM)
Random Access Memory (RAM) is the hardware in a computing device where the operating system (OS), application programs and data in current use are kept so they can be quickly reached by the device's processor. Continue Reading
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bad block
A bad block is an area of storage media that is no longer reliable for storing and retrieving data because it has been physically damaged or corrupted. Continue Reading
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Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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Buying NAS: Do you want performance and scalability?
Although SANs still rule the modern the data center, the NAS array maintains a position high up on tech buyers' shopping lists for new primary storage. Continue Reading
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Navigating the all-flash array storage buying process
Companies of all sizes are turning to all-flash storage arrays to meet their storage capacity, performance, reliability and data protection requirements. Continue Reading
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How NVMe over Fabrics will change the storage environment
Expect NVMe to supplant SCSI and SAS protocols for SSD storage and NVMe over Fabrics to find a place in high-end networking deployments for transporting data. Continue Reading
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Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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MTTR (mean time to repair)
MTTR (mean time to repair) is the average time required to fix a failed component or device and return it to production status. Continue Reading
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IT industry trends: Six major vendors chart new courses
Vendors Cisco, Citrix, Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Microsoft are transforming to keep up with cloud and other IT industry trends. Continue Reading
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Back-end storage considerations for in-memory processing
Storing hot data in main memory removes the latency associated with hard disk and solid-state storage operations; it's the best option for need-it-now data. Continue Reading
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We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
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RAID levels and benefits explained
RAID can enable better storage performance and higher availability, and there are many different RAID types. Read about the different levels of RAID and where they work best. Continue Reading
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Persistent data storage in containerized environments
The most significant challenge to the rise of containerized applications is quickly and easily providing enterprise-class persistent storage for containers. Continue Reading
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Integrate Ceph object storage in a VMware vSphere environment
It can be challenging to integrate Ceph in a VMware environment, but with the right interface, vSphere administrators can reap the rewards of object storage. Continue Reading