eLearning from ​the Pros

There is so much knowledge in the industry. Herein, you will get some of the best of the best in their respective fields. You'll find a brief description and a link to each author's original posting site.

What is Hybrid Cloud Storage: George Crump talks about one of the key challenges to any data protection strategy is deciding where to store data and how to get that data off-site. Initially in most environments, all backups were stored on tape. Those tapes were then packaged up and shipped to an off-site location. Then disk-based backup appliances came to market and, leveraging deduplication, were able to replicate data directly to a remote location. Each of these had challenges and the cloud is being viewed as a way to overcome them. But the cloud also has problems, especially in terms of recovery. As a result, a mix, or 'hybrid.' approach is now being offered as the nirvana of data protection.

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Scale Out & Object Storage: Speaking at the 2013 Email Summit in NY, Marc Staimer, Chief CDS at Dragonslayer Consulting, discusses Scale-Out Storage strategies and the use of Object Storage technology to address common scaling issues. Traditional storage-area network (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS), and unified-storage systems are not, and never have been, designed to deal with exascale problems, which involve more than 1,000 petabytes (PB) or 1 million terabytes (TB) of data. In fact, most are barely capable of managing low levels of petascale problems. Today, even scale-out SAN and NAS are not capable of solving exascale problems that lay in the not-too-distant future.

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The Business Benefits of Options and Flexibility in Data Deduplication: In this video, Greg Schulz, the Founder of StorageIO, author "Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking" and "The Green and Virtual Data Center", talks about the importance of data footprint reduction, He discusses how it can help drive efficiencies so that more can be done with available resources and technology improvements while supporting demand. Mr. Schulz makes the case that by reducing your data footprint, more data can be moved in the same or less time to meet service requirements. He has been a tremendous value to us at TriAxis over the years, and to the storage and server community at large

We hope some of these were helpful. If you have any comments, please email TriAxis' co-founder Tom Mumford.