Category: Managed Service Provider

Small Organizations not Exempt from Need for Redesign of Backup Infrastructures

Data protection is a ubiquitous need that cuts across all size organizations and has resulted in dozens of products with specific features to address these needs. In fact, one can easily wonder why any vendor even thinks it stands a chance to compete by coming to market with new backup software. But still they do and part of the reason is that backup problems still persist; so much so that backup redesign has topped the list among end-users for three (3) years running as they struggle to meet new backup requirements.

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Automated Virtual Management of Data Centers is the new End Game

Virtualizing the data center has become the new end game in data center management if, for no other reason, the more resources you virtualize, the more money you save. But as anyone who manages a virtualized data center already knows, to realize the full benefits of virtualizations means one should also look to optimize the management of the components that make up the virtualized data center. That’s where most software tools still fall short but StrataScale’s IronScale represents a new breed of software that is promising to change this dynamic.

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ParaScale Brings Cloud Storage Inside Corporate Firewalls But are Companies Ready for Their Own Clouds?

If you have spent any time in the IT world you have seen technologies come and go, but few areas have been subjected to the dramatic changes that storage has endured. As enterprise networks have matured the storage of data has exploded. This has fostered new and inventive ways to store and retrieve critical data like the emerging cloud storage platform. Cloud storage’s time is upon us and as large companies such as Amazon take the lead in this area it has brought legitimacy to the cloud concept. In 2007 IDC released the Digital Universe Study which stated between 2006 and 2010 information stored in the digital universe would increase from 161 Exabytes to 988 Exabytes. Based on this incredible projected growth in data and how cloud storage is evolving we quite possibly are witnessing the future of storage unfolding before us.

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