New Site-to-Site Replication Features Broaden Data Storage Options for Customers Beyond Local and Cloud Backup
Barracuda Networks launched site-to-site replication capabilities for the Barracuda Backup Service, a market leading solution that allows companies to efficiently back up their data both locally and offsite without the hassle of tapes or other removable media. This enhancement [...]
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What Is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a combination of software and computing delivered as a service. It provides a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Pooling these resources allows businesses and organizations rapidly to provide staff with access to the applications, infrastructure, or platforms [...]
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What is Threat Prevention? Though the seemingly constant stream of new viruses, worms, rootkits, denial of service (DoS) attacks and other security threats achieve substantial publicity, such threats don’t usually receive notice until significant damage has already occurred. For most companies, the network perimeter has expanded and blurred with the proliferation of [...]
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The results from IDC’s annual Digital Universe study (sponsored by EMC) published their key findings on just how much information we’re all creating and using. And every year, the study is a powerful springboard for discussion across the industry. We like it because it makes people think.
This year, [...]
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If you’ve been following the whole VCE-enabled service provider story, you’ll recall that Harris Corporation was one of first (and perhaps most enthusiastic) Vblock adopters.
They’ve built on Vblocks — and other technologies from V,C and E — to offer up an extremely well-positioned service: the Harris Trusted Enterprise Cloud. Their proposition [...]
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The data is mounting: more people are turning to EMC for their VMware deployments than anyone else.
Whether it’s storage, data protection, security or management — they’re obviously voting with with their dollars, putting EMC in the enviable #1 position in supporting the de-facto standard for virtualization.
While some are still quibbling over the data, [...]
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The storage market is moving very fast, indeed. It’s a potent blend of explosive information growth coupled with rapid technological innovation.
Historically, IDC has been the independent scorekeeper for storage market share: who’s doing well, and who’s not. No one is perfect in this regard, but IDC is the best out there, and has [...]
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We couldn’t help notice all the furor over the Amazon outage.
“OK“, we thought, “an infrastructure provider had a bad day — it happens.“ Just the same as any power utility, or an airline, or a phone service, or a railroad, or any other provider of shared infrastucture services.
But the Amazon outage had [...]
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