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News and Analysis
IT Gambling With Backups
IT is playing dice with backups, according to InformationWeek’s latest storage survey. From failing to back up remote offices to haphazard tests of data restoration, too many IT pros take backup risks.
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- Watching Workers: Where's The Line?
- Riverbed Delivers Customization Via Developer Tools
- 5 Data Center Trends For 2013
- Dell Boosts Storage Portfolio With New Hardware, Software
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Architectures
School District Optimizes Virtual Machine Archiving
Server virtualization separates operating systems and applications from the physical hardware, letting organizations consolidate infrastructure and pool application and communications resources. Organizations of all sizes are adopting virtualization to reduce the number physical servers they need. The El Dorado County Office of Education (EDCOE), located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Placerville, Calif., has been leveraging virtualization for several years to support 70 schools.
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- Hard Rock Cafe Replaces Tape Backup With Disk
- Including Internet Load Balancing And Redundancy In DR Strategies
- Storage Pipeline: Hold Everything
- Storage Pipeline: Hold Everything
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Reviews & Workshops
Data Center Consolidation Sparks Converged Infrastructure Deployment
SIRVA, an international relocation and moving solutions provider, determined that acquisitions are a good way to grow a business. However, one repercussion from the strategy was inefficiency: Duplicate business functions were performed in various offices scattered across the United States. In streamlining its IT infrastructure, the corporation found itself at the forefront of the movement to consolidate data center products, a position that, to date, has paid dividends for the corporation.
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Blogs
DIY Storage Part 2: Picking the Right SAN Software
April 04, 2013 04:02 PM
Posted by Jasmine McTigue
I’m building my own SAN as a pilot project at work. I looked at seven storage software packages, including commercial and open source products. Here’s how I decided which was right for me.
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Encrypting Backups Requires Key Planning
April 02, 2013 12:29 PM
Posted by David Hill
Some enterprises are adopting an "encrypt everything" policy to address the confidentiality and security of data, including on backups. A new backup product from Sepaton separates encryption from key management.
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DIY Storage: Why I Built My Own SAN
March 29, 2013 02:36 PM
Posted by Jasmine McTigue
I built my own SAN to meet some storage needs at my job. In a series of posts I’ll cover the reasons why, how I did it, and the hardware and software I used.
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CommVault Simpana 10 Drills Into Information Management
March 21, 2013 10:55 AM
Posted by David Hill
CommVault Simpana 10 extends customers' ability to use stored data for applications such as search, e-discovery and healthcare data management.
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Symantec 4.0: A New Strategy
March 13, 2013 05:05 PM
Posted by David Hill
Symantec has announced a new initiative, Symantec 4.0, that will revise both its product and corporate strategies. We'll look at what it means for the company and its customers.
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Cloud Storage and Sync: A Bubble Destined to Burst
February 22, 2013 12:28 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
The proliferation of cloud file sharing services is out of control. It can only end badly for most of these companies—and their users.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
