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Category: Disk Based Backup

As 2011 Nears a Transformation in Backup Awaits

September 24, 2010

The combination of cloud computing, cloud storage, inexpensive hardware, virtualization and heightened user demands for near real time backup and recovery are creating a crisis in traditional backup methodologies. It is a crisis in the sense that there is no way any emerging virtualized data center is going to find that how these backups work and are managed even slightly acceptable in the very near future. This suggests that in 2011 the transformation in backup that many have predicted will occur and it will go well beyond just deduplicating backup data stored to disk.

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Physical or Virtual – R1Soft has Hosting.com Covered

May 28, 2010

This has been a bit of a quiet week in terms of blog entries on the DCIG website but I did not want to leave everyone hanging on the Friday before going into the Memorial Day weekend. So for this week’s recap blog I opted to reflect on a conversation that I had with Hosting.com’s Backup Operations Manager a few weeks ago. In that conversation, he provided some interesting perspectives in terms of how Hosting.com is using R1Soft in its environment.

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DCIG Joins the RDX Storage Alliance as a Partner

May 19, 2010

Disk is fast becoming the primary storage target for archive and backup data but that does not mean the future of removable media is dead. If anything there are probably more use cases than ever for the use of removable media. It is for this reason that DCIG is today pleased to announce that it has joined the RDX Storage Alliance as a partner.

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Data Protection, I/O Bottlenecks and iSCSI SANs Top User Concerns at Quarterly Omaha VMUG Meeting

March 26, 2010

Going into the Omaha VMUG meeting, I was expecting to find maybe 40 – 60 users in attendance. However upon my arrival I found a steady stream of cars pulling into the parking lot, over 200 users registered to attend and I counted more than 150 people physically present at the event. So anyone who still doubts the impact virtualization is having on organizations need question no more.

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Disaster Proof Hardware and a Case of Mistaken Cloud Storage

January 22, 2010

This week it was evident everyone is getting back to work – at least those individuals who still have jobs and received something other than pink slips over the holiday break. People starting returning my phone calls and emails, PR agencies started requesting my time again for briefings and, maybe most importantly, news releases started flowing again so I have something other than 2009 recaps and 2010 trends to write about. This week three news items caught my attention: FalconStor Software’s FDS 2.0 release; a cloud storage announcement from Pillar and a new term (like this industry needed any more): Disaster Proof Hardware.

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Subtle Storage Trends for 2010

January 15, 2010

Right now on Yahoo finance it is counting down what it considers the top 10 tech trends for 2010. However some of the trends that it is including in its top 10 are so broad in their definition that when it lists ‘Data Centers’ as its #2 trend and then identifies nearly every technology company in the space as being part of this trend, you have to question just how real this trend is? The list of what I consider the more subtle storage trends of 2010 will be a bit more specific in terms of what features, products, services and/or vendor alliances are taking place that support these theories.

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Top 10 Most Read DCIG Blogs of 2009 Irrespective of Publication Date

January 8, 2010

Last week’s blog took a look at the 10 most read blogs in 2009 that were written in 2009. This week I wanted to step even further back and reflect upon the top 10 most read blogs in 2009 regardless of when they were written as I find this insightful in two ways. It lets me know what information continues to hold the attention of readers on as well as what topics from the past might become new trends in 2010. So while there is definitely some overlap between the two, there are also some entries that appear on this list that knock some of the top 10 blogs from last week off the list.

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Top 10 DCIG Blogs of 2009 Written in 2009

December 31, 2009

This is one of my favorite blogs of the year to write. Even though this is only the second time since DCIG launched its blogging site two years ago that I have had the opportunity to write a blog in this format, I have been looking forward to looking back all year. In case you have not yet figured it out, today I take a look back at the top 10 most read blogs in 2009 on the DCIG site. However this year I am doing a two part series with today’s blog examining the 10 most read blogs in 2009 that were written in 2009.

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Small Product Changes Foretell Forthcoming Wave of Storage Innovation

October 30, 2009

Anyone who has followed my blogs knows that solid state drives (SSDs) have been at the top of my mind ever since this fall’s SNW. However conversations that I have had with storage providers since SNW regarding the current and planned deployments of SSDs reinforce that a major shift in how storage systems are architected is coming. Already these changes are starting to show up in a number of small ways in current products that foretell a coming wave of innovation in storage technologies.

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