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Category: Managed Service Provider

Imation and BDT Products Tease SNW Attendees with Forthcoming 8 Slot RDX Disk Library

October 18, 2010

SMBs are being confronted with some tough choices right now when it comes to backup and recovery. While most want to use disk as their primary backup target, trying to balance recovery time objectives (RTOs), getting their data offsite and still keeping their costs under control makes this a fine line to walk. However an interesting answer to this problem was jointly presented to me last week at SNW by Imation and BDT Products.

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Backup Automation, Protection of Millions of Files and Bare Metal Restore Lead One MSP to Select R1Soft

September 29, 2010

Back at the end of July I took a look at why traditional backup software approaches are faltering at managed service providers (MSPs) and new solutions such as those from R1Soft are having such success with these providers. Since then I have had an opportunity to speak with GSI Hosting, an MSP in Kansas City, MO, who explained why it opted for R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection instead of a more traditional backup solution.

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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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HP Versus Dell: The Loser Will Be Left on the Outside of the Cloud Storage Story Looking In

August 27, 2010

The bidding war for 3PAR between Dell and HP continued yesterday with 3PAR first announcing that it had reached an agreement to be purchased by Dell for $24.30 a share and then, before the end of the day, HP countered with a $27 per share price offering. This back and forth has captured the attention of many of those who follow storage and even those who do not. But what is puzzling to many is, “What is so interesting about 3PAR that it is prompting Dell and HP to fight over it?”

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Why CDP is Taking over at MSPs

July 30, 2010

One of the privileges I get in being contracted to do blogging is that I get to speak to customers to which others rarely get access. One set of customers that I frequently speak with are managed service providers (MSPs) and discuss with them what technologies that they are having success with in their data centers. So this is why I can say with a high degree of certainty that continuous data protection (CDP) is taking over within their data centers and is shaping up to have a high impact as enterprise organizations look to move their applications and application data into the cloud.

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3PAR and Analysts Square off on Best-of-Breed vs Vertically Integrated Stacks

June 25, 2010

Even since 3PAR’s inception, it has challenged the traditional assumption that a start up cannot deliver high end storage as it has steadily carved out a growing presence despite the odds stacked against it. Now it is challenging the new assumption that users are going to give preference to vertically integrated stacks over best-of-breed solutions. This defiant attitude was on full display as 3PAR’s CEO David Scott squared off with the analysts who were present at 3PAR’s first annual Analyst Day.

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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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Online Backup Goes Offline; CommVault Salutes System Admins with Free Starbucks Gift Card

July 31, 2009

Every week I talk to a lot of people within the storage industry – end users, other analysts, resellers, public relations, CEOs, storage engineers, etc. While none of the news I pick up is necessarily enough to substantiate a blog on its own, when aggregated it becomes interesting and noteworthy. In fact, I was talking to Don Jennings at Lois Paul and Partners (LPP) about this yesterday and he suggested that I weekly post a blog that recaps what I hear and do on a weekly basis. Since Friday’s are typically a slow day during the summer months and anyone who is anyone is always looking to cut out a little early on Fridays anyway, I thought I’d give everyone a reason to check out the DCIG website before they do.

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