Archive for June, 2011
Formerly known as Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR), Symantec recently updated its system recovery solution, introducing greater automation and improved management, and renamed it Symantec System Recovery (SSR). SSR 2011 is a disk-based bare metal recovery and dissimilar hardware recovery solution that protects the file system, metadata, operating system, and ...
I was revisiting the scale-out storage report we published in December and this chart caught my eye. One in four new storage system purchases are triggered because users have maxed out their system and it doesn’t scale. One in 4. One in 5 is for a technology ...
It’s easy to say that the law and the way we practice it hasn’t really kept up with technology. But it’s also true that technology hasn’t consistently kept up with the way attorneys practice law.
This is particularly true as legal work has shifted in-house to Corporate Counsel. Many enterprise tools ...
Late last year, Xyratex quietly acquired ClusterStor, a Colorado-based start up building a Lustre-based scalable file system. Not only did Xyratex acquire the IP, but it got the original brains behind Lustre in Peter Braam, a ClusterStor founder. Nobody knows Lustre better than him. Xyratex has steadily ...
With never-ending data growth impacting data protection, IT struggles to assemble solutions that properly meet the objectives set out by management for backup and recovery and disaster recovery. For years, backup and disaster recovery strategies were mutually exclusive and often managed by separate groups entirely. While there can be perfectly ...
In my last blog post, I mentioned that much of the underlying stress (a.k.a. user challenge, vendor opportunity) in the world of storage right now is financial, rather then functional. A lot needs to change--or, in some areas, keep changing--real fast for storage to avoid becoming an anchor on the ...
NetApp has stepped up efforts to deliver a more comprehensive data protection solution for NetApp and non-NetApp storage environments. The company extended its capabilities via partnerships with Syncsort and CommVault, augmenting its base data protection features to meet current and prospective customer requirements.
Overview
The basic goal of data protection is to ...
There is no question that server virtualization can help organizations reduce costs while streamlining operations. I constantly hear stories about server provisioning going from weeks to hours; now, that it is as simple as spinning up a new VM. In theory, this will get even easier as ...
This paper makes the case for extending storage tiering into the “enhanced performance” IO space; the sense of such a move might make one wonder why it hasn’t been done before.
Tiering: What, Why, and Where
In the well known and often discussed “storage hierarchy,” we’ve effectively assumed that all really high ...
In today’s 24/7 global economy, business requires that IT deliver systems that are online and available all of the time. This “Now” culture is pushing real-time operational systems to their limits. While IT organizations need to invest in systems that meet business needs, they also need to be conscientious of ...
