Tag: data
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Making the Most of Big Data Opportunities
While there’s a lot of talk these days about moving everything into the cloud, there’s just as much talk about Big Data. What’s ironic about that is that it’s prohibitively expensive to transfer massive amounts of data in and out of the cloud. Because of that a lot of IT organizations are starting to make… Read more
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NetApp Creates a Federation for the Channel in the Cloud
One of the more frustrating aspects of being a solution provider is the number of channel programs you have to participate in, even when there are two or more vendors that are selling something that they are mutually dependent upon to deliver. With the rise of cloud computing that’s becoming a whole lot more common… Read more
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Solution Providers as Makers of the Data Center Peace
There has never been any love lost between IT professionals and the people that pay the electric bills for the data center. Facilities people don’t tend to care of environments that are not particularly predictable and IT people are not particularly well known for their appreciation of the cost of electricity or the difficulties associated… Read more
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Seeing the Larger Big Data Picture
Big Data is one of those mega IT trends that winds up being a gift to the channel that keeps on giving. Beyond the obvious impact of the Big Data on demand for additional storage capacity and the rise of new technologies to implement such as the Hadoop data management platform, one of the more… Read more
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Virtualization Drives Backup and Recovery Opportunities for the Channel
With the rise of virtualization it’s becoming clear that more companies than ever are struggling with backup and recovery and by extension disaster recovery. There are several key issues that IT organizations are struggling to manage, including fundamentals such as the fact that ther amount of processor capacity available to the backup and recovery application… Read more
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SMB Storage Gets a Whole Lot Smarter
The trouble with storage is that it’s difficult to manage, so very few organizations do it well. It’s kind of like the digital equivalent of cutting the hedges; many IT staffs don’t do it particularly well because they’re secretly hoping that somebody else will just show up and do it for them. Unfortunately, most small-to-medium… Read more