Drew Robb

See the full list of Top 10 Leading Backup Products  Company description:  Veritas is a private company, used by 86% of Fortune 500 companies. Veritas recently acquired fluid Operations AG, known as fluidOps, a privately-held software company based in Walldorf, Gremany. Operations AG is said to empower organizations to orchestrate, integrate, manage and optimize structured and […]

See the full list of Top 10 Leading Backup Products  Company description: Commvault offers data protection and information management solutions to mid- and enterprise-level organizations worldwide seeking to get value from their data. Commvault can help companies protect, access and use all of their data. Founded in 1988, Commvault is publicly traded (NASDAQ: CVLT) and headquartered in […]

SSDs have taken the lead over HDDs in the Enterprise Storage market. Explore why they are preferred for enterprise storage. Click here now.

Data protection has suddenly become hot once again. After years languishing as an unexciting item on every storage managers to-do list, it has once again moved to top of mind. This may be a sign of the times: growing cloud adoption, the rise of the distributed enterprise and the demand for analytics are all driving […]

HYCU spins out from Comtrade, continues to advance the HYCU purpose-built data protection for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Anyone following enterprise data storage news couldn’t help but notice that aspects of the backup market are struggling badly. From its glory days of a couple of years back, the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA), for example, has been trending […]

See the full list of top DRaaS vendors Bottom Line: IBM DRaaS offering is ideal for organizations that desire fully managed DRaaS and global support for IBM hardware offerings, non-x86 workloads and mainframes. And also for organizations that need additional related services in addition to DRaaS. IBM has the edge on all others in this […]

Data storage backup has evolved considerably over the last two decades. Tape once prevailed with organizations running full backups either every night or each week. Tape cartridge after tape cartridge would be shipped off site for that rainy day they hoped would never come. Then someone realized that full backups were mostly repeats of data […]

Conventional wisdom is that you are fine if your data gets infected or your data storage systems get shutdown by ransomware – if you have a current backup that is complete and uncorrupted. All you need to do is reset your systems, reinstall the apps and restore the data. Unfortunately, that may no longer apply. […]

Storage vendors are adding Big Data Analytics Tools within their storage platforms. Explore the companies providing tools. Click here now.

In the past, data storage was kind of dumb. It sat there inert – waiting for an application to come along and do something with it. Those days are gone, as big data and analytics tools seek to unearth trends, isolate opportunities and detect threats in real time. Here are some tips from the experts […]

Big data applications are growing as organizations mine their data for insights about clients, suppliers and operations. But as capacities grow and data becomes more sensitive, the underlying storage remains an important consideration. Here are ten tips on how data storage professionals can stay on top of the big data deluge that threatens to overwhelm […]

Solid state storage has risen to dominance, outselling hard drives in the enterprise market. While organizations are opting to buy all-flash or hybrid arrays in preference over disk arrays, that still leaves the thorny question of what you do with all the old stuff: existing hard disk drive (HDD) arrays, NAS filers or even older […]