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Cerner And IBM Send Industry Message That Nirvanix Is How Enterprise Cloud Storage Will Be Done Anyone who still doubts that Nirvanix is poised to deliver the same type of solution for cloud storage that VMware already delivers for cloud computing got a serious wake-up call this past week. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. 11/22/2011 29.8 KB
The Choice Of Inline Versus Post-Process Deduplication And How It Affects Business Objectives In the last year or so a number of articles and blogs have appeared on the topic of inline and post-processing deduplication in an attempt to answer the question, "What is the best approach for deduplicating data during disk-based backup?" Unfortunately what these pieces fail to quantify is, "What objectives are enterprise organizations looking to accomplish with disk-based backup and recovery?" The problem this creates is that without first establishing these objectives, it makes it very difficult to arrive at any sort of meaningful conclusion about how to best proceed with deduplication. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. 11/22/2011 26.9 KB
Datasheet: GreenBytes® HA-3000 Inline Deduplicating iSCSI SAN Appliance The GreenBytes HA-3000 is a block-based iSCSI device, specifically targeted towards business-critical Primary Storage Applications and Virtualization Environments that demand performance, scalability and availability, offered in a compact, affordable package. 10/20/2011 2.64 MB
Why Nirvanix Is Poised To Become The Next VMware Back in 2003 hardly anyone had heard of a small but rapidly growing technology company called VMware. But since that time VMware literally exploded to become the dominant player in enterprise server virtualization. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. 10/13/2011 45.0 KB
Unleashing The SAN In Your IP Network™ Computer storage holds the lifeblood of today’s economy. From movies, music, books, and classroom materials to corporate, personal, and financial data of all sorts — everything is being stored digitally. For this reason, the information and the knowledge derived from today’s Internet-reliant world have become the core elements by which our society increases its productivity. 10/03/2011 461.9 KB
InMage Enables Successful, Seamless Large-Scale Data Migration Project Applied Discovery is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with its main data center located in south Seattle. 09/19/2011 401.1 KB
Backup Software - Tape Library Combo Runs Counter To Current Disk-Based Backup Craze One might think the data protection world has gone mad. After all of the coverage over the last few years about the "goodness" of disk and the "evils" of tape, a recent announcement from Spectra Logic that it had entered into a new OEM agreement with Symantec ran counter to this disk-based backup craze. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. 09/13/2011 36.1 KB
Do You Have A Hole In Your Swing? Like some of you I have spent a good portion of my career as a turnaround guy for sales forces. Without fail I have found that many sales people or channel partners were ill equipped to hit the ball out of the park on behalf of the company. They were decent salespeople for the most part, and knew the product, but had a difficult time educating all levels of the organization that they were selling to. By Jim Nash, DCIG Inc. 09/13/2011 30.5 KB
White Paper: Three Key Requirements Of A Sound Disaster Recovery Strategy For short- and long-term survival, organizations must try to protect their data against any and all of the possible disasters, large and small, that can disrupt daily operations. Disasters can range from power outages, employee theft, and virus and malware, to site shutdown caused by a natural disaster. And whatever the magnitude, any of these disrupts an organization’s normal flow of activity so recovery from a disaster should be a top priority for organizations. 08/05/2011 472.8 KB
A By-The-Numbers Approach To Data, eDiscovery, And The Cloud Moving data to the cloud presents both tremendous opportunity as well as great challenge. One issue in particular is the implementation of a cost-effective yet defensible eDiscovery program. Data breaches, limited access to critical data, and a growing volume of data, are just a few examples of the problems that IT faces as we push to the cloud.

By Jim McGann, vice president of Information Discovery, Index Engines

 08/04/2011 143.8 KB
White Paper: Taking Convergence To The Next Level The widespread economic slowdown has created a business environment that demands that IT increase flexibility, efficiency, and performance — without adding costs. Virtualization is the first wave in a series of sweeping changes to data center architecture to do just that. By NetApp 06/29/2011 274.3 KB
Case Study: InMage Provides Solid Defense For Tampa Bay Lightning’s Mission-Critical Data And Applications The Lightning’s IT staff was utilizing tape backups, but found the process increasingly challenging due to shrinking backup windows, long recovery times and spotty reliability. Tape backups took hours to complete, yet still resulted in old backups that hadn’t captured the latest data changes. By InMage 06/10/2011 319.0 KB
Enterprise 2011 Demand Technology Roadmaps To Succeed The most exciting trends in Infrastructure Technology (IT) today require enabling infrastructure technologies that supply ever-increasing bandwidth and low latencies residing under consistent, time-proven discovery and management methodologies. By Skip Jones, Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) 05/26/2011 67.4 KB
Tech Trends: Cloud Storage Presents Recurring Revenue Opportunities Cloud-based storage and backup are becoming popular with companies that don’t want the hassle and expense of maintaining additional IT infrastructure. By Brian Albright, Business Solutions magazine. 05/18/2011 837.8 KB
Disaster Recovery Moving Into The Cloud Cloud computing is one of the most talked-about trends in IT, and the market for cloud services is exploding. In fact, IDC says cloud computing was a $17.4B market in 2009, but is expected to grow to $44.2B in 2013. By Bob Roudebush, VP of marketing, Neverfail 04/10/2011 100.3 KB
Going Beyond Deduplication To Treat The Data Disease, Not Just The Symptoms Data deduplication has been a viable IT strategy for managing data for some time; in fact, it has become a basic IT assumption. By Peter Eicher, Senior Product Manager - Data Protection, Syncsort 04/05/2011 91.1 KB
Do I Need A Data Center? If you still own your own data center and this question has not already crossed your mind, then you might be spending more money than you need, subjecting your organization to unnecessary risk, or both. By Chris Witt, WAKE TSI 03/22/2011 109.2 KB
The Cloud — Soft And Fluffy, Or Serious Contender? With what appears to be limitless storage options, for many the cloud is an attractive proposition.By Andy Cordial, MD Origin Storage 03/22/2011 96.1 KB
Is Your Tape Archive A Ticking Time Bomb? Despite reports of its demise, tape remains the predominant repository for historical business information. In fact, recent research from the Enterprise Strategy Grup (ESG) shows that 82 percent of organizations still use tape to support all or at least a portion of onsite backup processes. However, many organizations still do not have the proper procedures and controls in place to keep track of their data. By Jeff Pederson, manager of Ontrack Data Recovery operations and Jim Reinert, VP of product development 03/14/2011 54.1 KB
Guest Column: Midrange Storage Is A Balancing Act The most important skill for today's storage administrator or engineer is balance. That’s because all storage management is a balancing act. The primary determinant of success of a storage engineer is managing certain resources to keep capacity and utilization in balance, thus reducing (and keeping) bottlenecks to a minimum. By Tony Hobart, Laurus Technologies 03/07/2011 29.1 KB
White Paper: Tape Or Disk: Why Not Both? Both disk and tape were created for purposes aside from protecting data; both have moved into the data protection arena; and both look to be there to stay. By Spectra Logic Corporation 02/15/2011 452.0 KB
Guest Column: DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide Now Available Today DCIG and SMB Research are pleased to jointly announce the availability of a new, comprehensive 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide that weights, scores and ranks over 20 virtual server backup software products. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. 02/02/2011 60.2 KB
Guest Column: How SSDs Can Be Leveraged To Deliver Inline Deduplication For Primary Storage In late January 2010 someone posted a comment in response to a blog that I wrote in the October 2009 time frame. This individual was questioning the value that an inline deduplication solution like the Exar Hifn BitWackr DR1605 provides since most of the performance bottleneck associated with deduplication is primarily in the disk I/O. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. 02/02/2011 22.4 KB
White Paper: NAND Flash: Can It Meet The Growing Storage Capacity Demands Of The Laptop PC Market? Assuming all of that additional NAND is used for solid state drives, that $10B investment would produce enough flash memory to serve just 4% of the 95-exabyte laptop storage market projected for 2011. Spending $10B to buy 4% of notebook storage market share, or $2B in revenue, is not viable. By Seagate Technology LLC 01/24/2011 362.7 KB
Guest Column: Staying Afloat In The Sea Of Data: Managing Your Information Risk Corporations are drowning in data. Twenty-five years ago, individual computer storage was measured in thousands of bytes; 15 years ago, in millions; 5 years ago, in billions; today, in trillions. By Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind 01/24/2011 48.7 KB