Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:04 AM/EST
If you're goal is to speed the recovery process, then maybe it's time to rethink how you handle backup in the first place. That's the reasoning behind a GoodSync Enterprise offering from Siber Systems that saves files and documents...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:16 AM/EST
When it comes to cloud computing in the enterprise, the first place this approach makes the most sense is the backup and recovery process. After all, backup and recovery is a thankless task that requires a lot of additional...
Monday, June 01, 2009 11:21 AM/EST
It seems pretty quaint right now, but there was a time when backup and recovery was basically a task that needed to be intermittently performed. For the most part, IT people generally didn't care how long the process actually...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:47 PM/EST
One might not normally think that the hotbed of revolutionary thinking when it comes to high-end storage is actually in Minnesota. For the past few years Compellent Technologies has been carrying out a quiet campaign to overturn the way...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:11 AM/EST
One of the more challenging things about storage is the amount of data that individual departments or classes of workers are trying to manipulate. It's increasingly becoming routine for these departments to store terabytes of data, and naturally, they...
Monday, April 06, 2009 11:32 AM/EST
The backup window as we once knew it is an endangered species. As the amount of data that needs to be managed continues to grow alongside the need to have data be constantly available, it's becoming increasingly difficult to...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:32 PM/EST
A lot of time when all the server vendors get together to roll out new products in support of some new processor such as the Xeon 5500 series from Intel, a lot of important details get left by the...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:06 PM/EST
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. You could argue then that the approach IT uses to manage storage is the very definition of insanity. For more...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:02 AM/EST
One of the more perplexing things about IT is that in all the rush to embrace server virtualization, there has not been a corresponding amount of increased interest in storage virtualization. That isn't to say that storage virtualization isn't...
Sunday, February 22, 2009 3:33 PM/EST
The trouble with virtualization is volume. The basic concept behind virtualization is sound, but it can quickly become too much of a good thing. Higher utilization rates mean more efficient servers. But that also means more virtual servers issuing...