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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL
Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution. The… Read more
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How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)
VMware’s EVO RAIL is an architecture for a hyper-converged, software-defined data center in a single appliance form-factor … to be delivered by various hardware partners. But how do you protect that all-in-one solution? For the next several weeks, ESG will… Read more
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Video summary of Disk-Based Backup Target Systems
A few months ago, ESG completed its research on Disk-Based Backup Target Systems – the storage platforms that data protection solutions are often built upon. The nice folks in ESG’s video team were kind enough to help me record some… Read more
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The term PBBA is overused and often incorrect
There are some who would refer to optimized disk-based target devices that are optimized for as Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs), but that term is actually misleading. When one refers to a “backup server,” the implication is that the server performs… Read more
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HP VS3 announced at MMS 2012
Today, HP announced the newest offering in its VirtualSystem for Microsoft solutions family – the VS3, leveraging HP hardware that has been assembled and optimized to deliver the entire Microsoft Private Cloud stack, including: HP Proliant “generation 8” BladeSystem servers… Read more
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Announcing the HP Windows Storage Server 2008 appliances – X1000 and X3000
This is a very good day to be in storage and a Windows network administrator – because HP just announced that they are shipping storage appliances that are powered by Windows Storage Server 2008. For more on the WSS08 release… Read more