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Escape from Data Mountain

How much data is created every day? Week? Year? Gigabytes, Terabytes and soon Zettabytes of data are building Data Mountains. Find out how Permabit will help you Escape from Data Mountain!...

Get out of my way!

There's one thing that has become apparent in the storage universe over the last several years. People don't want their data messed with! Time and time again, some new vendor will come to market with a shiny new appliance that will promise to solve some major storage management challenge. However, the catch is that all the data must be routed through this nifty new appliance. This appliance does some voodoo magic and voila, the data has been fixe...

Virtual desktops – the bigger beast!

In my previous post, I highlighted the massive savings that can be realized by leveraging deduplication technology with virtual server environments. In this post, I'll take it one step further and discuss virtual desktops. While virtual servers are approaching deployment numbers in the hundreds of servers in larger enterprises, deployments of virtual desktops are in the thousands and in some cases tens of thousands of images being deployed! So, ...

Virtual environments – the storage hogs!

One of the key findings from a Gartner report from late last year, (Virtual Machines and Market Share Through 2012) stated that 'by year-end 2010, enterprises with 100 to 999 employees will have a higher penetration of virtual machines deployed than the Global 500. Concurrently, there will be a growing percentage of small businesses that leverage virtual machines provided by cloud-computing service providers; this will become a major trend in thr...

The Trifecta

Last night, the Miami Heat pulled off what many thought would not be possible. They completed their version of the 'Dream Team.' LeBron James' decision to join Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade has positioned the team to become, as Pat Riley started talking about already, a 'Dynasty.' Let's take a look at what happened here and how this type of scenario plays out in the world of storage. * The Cleveland Cavaliers had 'the King', LeBron James, for 7 yea...

A ‘Rock’ Star is Born

In Jered's latest blog post, he highlights the announcement we made this week of AlbireoTM High Performance Data Optimization Software. You may have noticed the industry buzz this has created.  Here's what some of the analysts have had to say. What I would like to highlight is the other star that was 'born' with this announcement -- that is Jered himself! Move over Pink, here comes Jered Floyd - our very own rock star. Ever since Jered conceiv...

Dedupe Comes of Age

As Wayne highlighted in his recent blog post, dedupe is going way beyond backup. 2010 will be the year, we predict, when dedupe comes of age. As this technology has now become broadly accepted, users are starting to ask the question of whether it will ever be viable for anything other than backup. In the recently published 2010 Storage Trends by Rich Castagna at SearchStorage.com, which was conducted in December 2009, some interesting things wer...

The Ghosts of Storage Past, Present and Future

"For it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . ." ~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol The Ghosts of Storage Past, Present and Future While the ghosts of Christmas continue to haunt Ebenezer Scrooge in the various versions of Dickens' Christmas Carol this time of year, we thought it would be fun to visit with the ghosts of data storage as we prepare ...

Mike’s Rant

OK, so I'm "borrowing" Steve Duplessie's (old?) title (which I just noticed looks like it's changed) for this blog post, but I felt it fit perfectly with my thoughts. So, thanks Steve! I'm a techie type that knows enough to get most things working but, sometimes I change one too many configurations and everything gets screwed up.  In this case however, it's not me...it's them! I'm talking about my last two week battle trying to get my VoIP phon...

Email hygiene is no excuse!

For the first time in probably a dozen years, I'm not at SNW this week.  Part of me is ecstatic to be home for once and part of me feels like I'm missing the reunion with the gang!  My wife's business travel plans collided with mine for this week giving me the opportunity to stay at home with the kids.  I can see some gourmet meals happening this week! While everyone else is in meetings this week, I thought I'd get caught up with some bloggin...