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Why is Windows Storage Server only available through OEM’s ?
I get this question every once in a while – so I thought I would offer my perspective on this. To answer that, let me do a short reminder of what a Windows Storage Server is: We started with the...
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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...
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Dell announces a Windows Storage Server 2008 appliance
Congratulations to my friends at Dell for their launch of storage appliances that are powered by Windows Storage Server 2008. This is a great example of what happens with the partnership of Microsoft...
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Windows 8 – ISO and VHD support!
Am not sure whether to shout “Woo Hoo” or “Finally" … but am going with “Woooo Hooo”. ISO and VHD files are a wonderful container for files, until you actually need just one. Prior to Windows 8, you...
View ArticleEvery Windows Server can be a iSCSI Target
No, I didn’t do a typo and mean to say “Every Windows Server has an iSCSI Initiator” And it may only be a slight exaggeration when I say “Every“. But did you know that your Windows Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleVideo Blog on Dell Compellent Storage Center Thin Provisioning
Last month, ESG Lab released its Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4. Click here to read the ESG Lab Report on Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4. This project was interesting to me not...
View ArticleA Look at the Amazon AWS Storage Gateway
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI...
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Riverbed Granite extends iSCSI in a very cool way
This week, ESG Lab published its Lab Report on the new Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite. It was a privilege to work with two ESG Lab Engineers, Tony Palmer and Ajen Johan, to do some hands-on with the...
View ArticleHP announces StoreOnce Catalyst
This week at HP Discover 2012, HP announced StoreOnce Catalyst as a software accelerator (API toolset) that enables its HP StoreOnce backup appliances to achieve up to 100TB/hour in backups – and in...
View ArticleSnapshots vs. Backup – a great debate, no longer
It wasn’t that many years ago that “snapshotting vs. backup” had the same kind of fervor in IT debates that some American political discussions have today, or religion, or any other media-infused...
View ArticleMy newest Storage Appliance for under $2,000
After 22+ years in backup, I have become something of a storage geek on the side (or at least pretend to be one). Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with a new storage solution in my Dallas...
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The Spectrum of Data Protection
It is interesting to me how marketing folks and technical purists banter IT terms around, in hopes of sounding fresh and compelling to their customers. While “backup” is often thought of as passé or...
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New ESG Research on BaaS, DRaaS and Tertiary
These days, you can’t have a discussion on modernizing your IT infrastructure without talking about “cloud” … but when it comes to Data Protection, there isn’t just one kind of Data Protection as a...
View ArticleYou have one less way to recover your data – and you probably didn’t realize it
BE AWARE that today’s laptop and mobile devices have one less recovery option than they used to. This particular customer service announcement is targeted mostly at business executives and the IT...
View ArticleOFS and BaaS – why you need both
At first glance, the services can be easily confused: A small application is installed on your endpoint device, perhaps from a consumer “app-store” Behind the scenes, there is a cloud-based storage...
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Need Help with WinSvr 2012 Storage Spaces
Howdy MS friends, I used to be a fan of Windows Server 2012’s Storage Spaces: http://blog.jasonbuffington.com/index.php/2013/06/checking-out-my-newest-storage-appliance-for-under-2000/ And for those...
View ArticleWhat if Cloud-Backup-Storage was Free?
Not Backup-as-a-Service, but just cloud-storage that could be used to supplement a backup. Sure, there are a lot of STaaS (storage-as-a-service) folks that will give you a small amount of capacity to...
View ArticleEMC RecoverPoint for VMs is another step forward in vAdmin enablement
This week, EMC released RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM). For storage administrators, RecoverPoint has long been seen as the seamless synchronous/asynchronous storage replication of choice for EMC storage,...
View ArticlevBlog: Everyone Should Archive (period)
Even if you aren’t in a highly regulated industry. Even if you aren’t a Fortune 500 enterprise. Even if you don’t keep data over five years. Everyone should archive, as a means of data management –...
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