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| StorSimple provides a hybrid cloud storage appliance that provides enterprises a gateway, or on-ramp, to cloud storage services, for their on-premises Microsoft applications via iSCSI. StorSimple couples automated tiering, primary storage deduplication, and SSDs/SAS to maintain on-premises storage performance and cloud clones to simplify backup. |
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| Building an Enterprise Architecture For Secure High-Performance Hybrid Cloud Storage | |
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| The only thing predictable about storage requirements is that they will be unpredictable and much bigger than you could possibly imagine. To manage this growth, the focus must shift to managing “Big Content” ... | |
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| May 07 2013 |
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David Isenberg wrote his famous and controversial paper, The Rise of the Stupid Network in 1997. Its a short and historically interesting read. If you have never read it, follow the link there now. It will take you less than 10 minutes. If you want the Cliff notes version, the gist of his paper is copied below:
JUST DELIVER THE B ... read more >> |
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| February 06 2013 |
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If you are involved with managing your company’s storage infrastructure, you might be tired of hearing about how your company can use IaaS to improve software development. It might sound promising, but as a storage person they won’t help you solve your worst storage problems such as backup and data growth.
It’s probab ... read more >> |
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| January 08 2013 |
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As the saying goes, "when you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp." IT professionals are plenty familiar with compelling interruptions that need to be dealt with quickly, but keep them from getting high-priority work done. That's one of the ... read more >> |
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| December 18 2012 |
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The excitement around software-defined networking (SDN) this year has had a ... read more >> |
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| December 16 2012 |
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This post was initially published on the Hybrid Cloud Storage blog.
On December 5th Microsoft announced a pricing reduction for Windows Azure Storage. One of the more noticeable aspects of the announcement was the break ... read more >> |
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| December 12 2012 |
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The term "hybrid cloud" has been defined many different ways. At Microsoft hybrid cloud refers to data center functionality that spans on-premises and cloud service boundaries. At least that's how I'm understanding it now after having been part of the compan ... read more >> |
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| November 15 2012 |
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Our relationships define our trajectory. Often its luck, but we place odds on investing more heavily i ... read more >> |
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| October 16 2012 |
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StorSimple has defined the frontier on how cloud can empower enterprise IT. We hav ... read more >> |
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| October 04 2012 |
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Considering the budget resources data storage takes in most companies, it’s not surprising that IT executives are wondering if the cloud can help them manage their storage budgets more effectively. The ... read more >> |
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| September 06 2012 |
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Cloud storage is clearly seeing tremendous growth and adoption across all segments of business and government customers – f ... read more >> |
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| July 30 2012 |
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Disaster recovery is commonly associated with complex configurations and high costs. Data replication for DR means there is a lot of duplicated equipment and facilities, inc ... read more >> |
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| July 23 2012 |
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I haven't found a good list of Enterprise Cloud Storage service providers online, so I thought I'd put one together here, trying to be unbiased, in alphabetical order.
This list does not include consumer cloud services like Box, YouSendIt or Dropbox that people use fo ... read more >> |
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| June 29 2012 |
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Network 180 is a social services organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan that connects individuals and their families to services for mental illness, substance use diso ... read more >> |
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| May 30 2012 |
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Terry Barbounis was asked to help the First Church of Christ, Scientist and The ... read more >> |
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| May 24 2012 |
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Our customer Dan Streufert from MedPlast flew into Dallas on a day when there were tornadoes touching down throughout the Metroplex to present at SNW Spring 2012 about cloud storage and their experience using ... read more >> |
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| May 08 2012 |
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Cisco Systems recently published the results of a survey of 1300 IT professionals on cloud priorities and challenges. The survey results can be found here
One of the things that really stands out is that customers see Cloud service providers like Amazon, Azure, Google; industry analysts an ... read more >> |
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| March 07 2012 |
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What vendors like CommVault and Riverbed are not telling you.
Cloud Backup works provides a good way for consumers and small businesses to backup their data. However, at enterprise data volumes where primary data sets run in 10s and 100s of TB, traditional cloud backup does not work. The reasons are – recovery times are unacceptably long and that cloud backup does not reduce data protection costs.
For ... read more >> |
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| March 02 2012 |
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StorSimple customers like the fact that our systems do things for them that with legacy storage would take eit ... read more >> |
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| February 28 2012 |
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If you want to check out an incredible technology facility, visit the nearest Microsoft Technology Center (MTC). I went to the Mountain View, CA MTC today with my co-worker Burzin Patel and we ... read more >> |
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| February 15 2012 |
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We all like a little recognition from time to time and we are excited to receive the 2011 Product of the Year in the Storage Systems Category fr ... read more >> |
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| February 01 2012 |
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It's a bird, it's a plane, no.... it's cloud storage!
This week marks the beginning of my journey into cloud storage - and I expect this journey to be incredibly interesting, with many things to learn about cloud services and unlearn about legacy storage. ... read more >> |
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| January 25 2012 |
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It’s been exciting to watch the news and buzz surrounding Amazon’s release of their AWS Storage Gateway today. Sweeping industry changes start with an inflection point of some kind and Amazon’s announcement enables cloud integrated enterprise storage to become a mainstream architecture. While there have been a number of companies, including StorSimple, working to develop this technology, there’s nothing like havin ... read more >> |
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| January 19 2012 |
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Sundance Institute was in need of more storage capacity and the IT team was challenged trying to keep up with backing up the existing storage. Compounding this was the annual Sundance Film Festival during which the staff doubles, storage needs become much greater, and festival logistics ramp-u ... read more >> |
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| January 19 2012 |
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StorSimple is pleased to be a corporate sponsor of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival which opens this week. Through year-round programs, Sundance Institute seeks to discover and develop independent artists and audiences and to provide a platform for artists to present their works to a global audience—the Sundan ... read more >> |
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| January 05 2012 |
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| December 12 2011 |
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StorSimple today announced support for the OpenStack ecosystem and specifically for Rackspace Cloud Files. ( ... read more >> |
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| December 02 2011 |
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CPP Selects StorSimple for SharePoint and File Share ... read more >> |
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| November 28 2011 |
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MedPlast, a leading medical devices company, was challenged when their existing backup targets were becoming full and backup windows were getting longer and long ... read more >> |
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| September 01 2011 |
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VMworld 2011 was a great event and the cloud was center stage.
StorSimple was named "Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist in the Business Continuity and Data Protection" category and was the only Storage System finalist showing the ever growing importance of cloud storage.
Guru Pangal, Co-founder and President received the award on stage and is pictured here:
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| August 26 2011 |
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StorSimple will be showcasing its VMware Ready Enterprise Cloud Storage at VMworld in Las Vegas, August 29th to September 1st on stand # 671.
On the stand you will be able see:
StorSimple's award winning Enterprise Cloud Storage - Live demo
How StorSimple puts some vMotion into your cloud ... read more >> |
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| July 05 2011 |
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The cloud is for Microsoft what the services business became for IBM. It will be the engine of growth for Microsoft for the next 20 years. It takes Microsoft’s core competency that enables enterprises to manage their information to drive productivity and takes that business from being a product sale to a turnkey solution sale. Microsoft has tremendous assets for this battle - deep customer relationships, a massive install base and a hung ... read more >> |
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| December 17 2010 |
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Rockford Construction Operates in 43 States with nearly half of its employees remote. Rockford Construction knew that IT would be a core way that it could differentiate itself from its competitors. They selected SharePoint as the way to give their many field representatives access to all information about projects in real time while on site and to provide a repository for archiving based on a ten-year retention policy.
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| December 09 2010 |
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StorSimple hit the headlines this week. The company announced the immediate availability of the StorSimple 1000, 5000 and 7000 series of application-optimized cloud storage appliances. Deployed on-premise, these devices utilize an innovative “cloud-as-a-tier” a ... read more >> |
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| October 29 2010 |
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The cloud is a once in a decade shift and the acceleration continues with some people speeding ahead and others debating the differences between IaaS and PaaS. Virtualization has become synonymous with the cloud and this week VMware delivered its private cloud vision predicting the world will evolve from virtualised servers to private clouds. Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 will now run in the cloud and compared ... read more >> |
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| October 22 2010 |
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It has been an interesting week for cloud storage and cloud computing. Interop discussed the cloud and came to the conclusion that "Hybrid Clouds Will Rule", which is a pragmatic approach that most people agree with that dramatically accelerates the time to cloud deployment. Licensing and pricing is one of the most discussed subjects on the cloud. Traditional vendors are fed on upfront license fees of software that often sits on a s ... read more >> |
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| October 08 2010 |
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It has been a very interesting week for me. I have been talking to a number of analysts, listening to and reading to research on the cloud market space.
Nearly all organisations have a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy and historically this has been done on tape that is stored offsite. This thing about disasters is that by their nature you can't predict them. One (great) analyst had two great stories about disa ... read more >> |
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| October 01 2010 |
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StorSimple hit the headlines earlier this month as Mayfield Fund, the original investor in 3PAR led the $13m series B funding in StorSimple. Storsimple made news in Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, Xconomy, VentureBeat, The Silicon Valley Business Journal and the mega blog GigaOM.
Since then StorSimple has been named as one of the ... read more >> |
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| October 01 2010 |
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Cloud computing and cloud storage continue to be hot topics. The Oracle,sSalesforce soap opera that we discussed last week has continued. Larry Ellison contends virtualization is an essential component of the cloud and, by that measure, Salesforce.com fails, while Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud wins.
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| September 24 2010 |
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This week in the cloud has been dominated by Oracle World and the legendary Larry Ellison.
He kicked off with "Ellison announces 'one big, honking' cloud". The Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a system containing 30 servers, each loaded with two six-cor ... read more >> |
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| September 21 2010 |
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Customers considering use of a cloud storage gateway or cloud-integrated storage device such as StorSimple may be misled to believe that all devices are the same. Truth be told, there are a number of fundamental differences in the architecture used by these devices that may not be evident upon first glance, but manifest themselves as either undesirable behavior or unwanted complexity in configuration or ongoing management.
One suc ... read more >> |
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| September 16 2010 |
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It has been a busy time for the cloud, cloud storage and the applications that generate the content for the cloud. Interesting articles on the cloud, Amazon, Windows Azure, 3PAR, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
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| September 14 2010 |
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StorSimple hit the headlines this week. The 3PAR original investor Mayfield Fund announced that it had led a series B funding in StorSimple. The $13m brings the total funding to $21m. Participation in this round included new investor Ignition Partners and existing investors ... read more >> |
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| September 14 2010 |
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Howells’ Appointment Follows $13 Million Series B Funding to Accelerate Expansion Plans
StorSimple announced today that it has appointed Ian Howells as chief marketing officer. An industry veteran with 25 years of experience at leading companies such as Ingres, Documentum, SeeBeyond and Alfresco, Howells will be responsible for the StorSimple marketing strategy and operational activities globally. ... read more >> |
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| September 13 2010 |
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StorSimple to Accelerate Expansion Plans in High-Growth Cloud Storage Market
StorSimple announced today that it has raised $13 million in Series B funding round led by Mayfield Fund, bringing the company’s total funding to $21 million. Participation in this round included new investor Ignition Partners and both existing investors: ... read more >> |
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| August 27 2010 |
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Many organizations are considering use of cloud storage to help simplify their data storage environments, improve data protection, and reduce overall costs. However, many challenges still exist with using cloud storage natively for traditional on-premises applications that drive businesses today, and security remains as a concern in terms of data privacy, confidentiality, and control.
A number of cloud storage on-ramp, or c ... read more >> |
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| August 27 2010 |
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Many of us didn't feel comfortable doing our online banking until encryption using SSL became commonplace. While no one can 'guarantee' the privacy that is provided by encryption, it does provide us with the comfort of knowing that a large number of brilliant minds spent a massive amount of time coming up with a mechanism by which we could establish trust in a world of insecure communication, allowing us to authenticate the website we we ... read more >> |
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| July 29 2010 |
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A common question when cloud storage is discussed is "will my applications run slower with cloud storage?". It's a very valid question, and the answer to that question requires examination of many key elements of the application behavior, the network, any intermediary devices (including cloud storage gateway devices or on-ramp devices like StorSimple), and of course, the cloud storage provider.
Looking at typical application deployment ... read more >> |
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| July 14 2010 |
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Addressing Performance, Availability, Data Protection, and Security Concerns in Cloud Storage Environments ... read more >> |
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| July 07 2010 |
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In the past two episodes of cloud storage 101 (ep1, ep2), we discussed what cloud storage is, what value it provides, and an ov ... read more >> |
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| July 01 2010 |
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In our last blog post, episode 1 - "what the heck is cloud storage?", we discussed what cloud storage is and some of its attributes. Based on those, it's apparent why many corporations are interested in being able to take advantage of cloud stor ... read more >> |
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| June 30 2010 |
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Welcome to the first part of Cloud Storage 101, episode #1, "What the heck is cloud storage?". Unfortunately I don't have Lucasfilm's budget so I'm unable to provide a Star Wars entrance for this series, but even if I did, I'm not sure if you would consider it unique, corny, interesting, or what. In any case, in this series we're going to focus on providing a 5,000 foot view of various aspects of cloud storage. It won't be all encompassing, bu ... read more >> |
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