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Disaster recovery public cloud

Managing Disaster in The Public Cloud

Despite the best intentions of the public cloud infrastructure providers, issues do happen from time to time. Some problems are more significant than others, as we saw with the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) DynamoDB outage (details here). The impact to AWS customers was widespread and although it would be easy to dismiss the affected services as trivial (Netflix, IMDB, Tinder, Buffer), these are still clients running production workloads. Do a quick Google search and it’s easy to find many other similar examples, including this one affecting Microsoft’s Azure Storage Service.

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Compare Cloud Storage as a Service

Comparing Zadara’s Storage as a Service vs. Traditional Storage

Zadara Storage is changing the game by bringing the information technology industry and enterprise storage to a whole new level. Zadara’s storage-as-a-service solution helps eliminate IT headaches by fully managing your storage for you. All this, with no compromise: you still get all the great features you would expect from a traditional storage system. Here, we break it down for you in the 4 most important aspects: time, cost, scalability, and commitment.

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Enterprise Storage Management

The True “Cost” of Enterprise Storage – Understanding Storage Management

It’s definitely a truism that the absolute cost of storage, measured per GB has continued to drop steadily over the last 15 years. In fact, when I was involved in purchasing storage hardware it was common to put in place a quarterly price reduction of around 5% on any long-term deals. Prices have dropped over time because the disk manufacturers have been able to continue to increase the capacity of data stored in a standard drive form-factor, delivering more capacity for the same physical amount of space, power and cooling.

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The untapped potential of Containers Technology

The Untapped Potential of Containers Technology

I started my IT career in the 1980’s and worked as a systems programmer for the first 10 years on IBM mainframe systems. For those not acquainted with this perennial technology, IBM systems were big, expensive and ultra-reliable, still being used today as the core of almost all financial organizations and other companies that need rock-solid computing.

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