There was a thread going round on Facebook a while back discussing the “fact” that FedEx had more bandwidth for dealing with big data than the internet itself had. OK — it sounds strange, but if all of FedEx’s vehicles were stuffed to the max with disks full of data, it could move more data [...]
Is Your WAN Ready for the Next Generation of Backup and Recovery?
Jan 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So what did Santa bring your IT department this winter? If it was a shiny new disk-to-disk backup box to help protect your growing data storage estate, as it may have been for many organizations away from the bleeding edge, it is time to sort out how well this is going to fit with the [...]
If You Store It, They Will Come
Jan 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Do you remember the movie, Field of Dreams? I’d like to put a twist on the famous line from the movie, “if you build it he will come.” This is for my friends who are responsible for their corporate networks and the movement of large amounts of data stored in various data centers around the [...]
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
Dec 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
First, let me get rid of a bee in my bonnet. At a recent round table, while many argued that business continuity was just one aspect of disaster recovery, I argued that business continuity and disaster recovery were two completely different things. To me, disaster recovery starts from the premise that a catastrophic failure will [...]
Avoiding a High Speed Data Breach
Nov 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s all well and good souping-up networks so that data can be whizzed around the globe, but what if it gets whizzed to places it shouldn’t be? How do you avoid whizzing into trouble? As The Economist pointed out in its recent special report, “Technology and geography”, the internet is not nearly as virtual as [...]
Silver Peak Awarded New Patents for Acceleration of Data Mobility
Jun 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Enterprises must constantly move data from data centers to offsite locations for critical IT initiatives such as disaster recovery and for providing distributed users with fast access to data. However, long distances and low-quality shared or public networks limit the performance of data transfers. Innovations in WAN optimization and data mobility software are addressing this [...]
Birds do it. Fish do it. Let’s all migrate now!
Dec 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
OK. The title of this article is an obscure reference to an old Cole Porter song. And I know it’s a stretch. But hang in there with me. Have you ever watched a flock of birds migrate in the fall or salmon swim upstream to spawn? It’s amazing to witness. I’m always in awe, wondering [...]
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