Today’s data centers are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Reliance on information technology continues to grow, while budgets and IT staff shrink. As capacity demands and data center changes intensify, it’s increasingly difficult to ensure that the proper infrastructure support is in place to achieve business goals, whether they be IT expansion, updated server installation, IP telephony implementation, consolidation or virtualization more

There has been an increasing amount of discussion between backups and archives. Is there a difference? What does archiving do for me? How do I classify the difference?  We should probably start with introducing some generally accepted definitions for the terms “backup” and “archive.” more

From our friends at Infortrend, benefits of the latest Near line SAS drives are valuable. Flexible drive support on storage systems can greatly help IT managers by ensuring they can deploy the drive types that best meet their application requirements. High-performance drives support mission-critical applications, while high-capacity drives are ideal for secondary applications which require less performance, but larger capacities.  more

Yesterday, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), announced the first in a portfolio of converged data center solutions to automate, accelerate and simplify cloud adoption. Hitachi converged data center solutions combine and optimize enterprise class storage systems and compute blades from Hitachi as well as standard network infrastructure components for a broad range of applications and cloud environments. Through quicker deployment, automation and scalability, the new solutions help organizations adopt cloud at their own pace and see predictable results with faster time to value. more

DSN’s new hosted server infrastructure platform is now online. Have instant access to an enterprise cloud environment. Create virtual servers on the fly providing instant access to a virtual environment in the cloud. You also have instant, easy access to software licensing, VDI, and disaster recovery options. 

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If you purchased vSphere Essentials or Essentials Plus*, now’s the time to take your virtualization plans to the next level. For a limited time, get up to 40% off when you upgrade to the new vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit – that’s a saving of up to $4,000. Limited Time Offer

Selected systems in Infortrend’s ESVA family have been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization solutions from Citrix Systems, Inc. The ESVA systems completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenServer, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. more

As primary storage stacks up in the data center, many companies choose to simply add more storage. Although, the easy approach, this is not the most economical one. At prices of $10-15K per TB, budget dwindles quickly for other projects that can help simplify day to day IT administration. New file and email archive systems available on the market today can help you shift that stagnant data off tier 1 to more economical disk or tape, but remain available and seamless to end users. $500 per TB or $10,000? Find out how. Call us today at 888-445-2919

On Thursday this week, Dell announced talks of an agreement to negotiate an acquisition of storage Manufacturer, Compellent. At this point, it is too early to see the outcome, as Dell’s offer comes in below Compellent’s current stock price.

InMage Scout leverages the advantages of disk-based data protection to provide application- aware recovery that can meet remote and/or local requirements. InMage Scout continuously captures data changes in real time as they occur and performs local backup or remote replication simultaneously with a single data stream. It offers instantaneous and granular recovery of data locally and enables push-button application level failovers to remote sites to meet local backup and/or remote DR requirements, thus going above and beyond the protection offered by conventional replication backup and failover automation products alone. more