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The UK’s number one in IT Storage<br />
DATA MANAGEMENT:<br />
The ‘beating heart’ of an organisation<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ch/<strong>Apr</strong>il <strong>2021</strong><br />
Vol 21, Issue 2<br />
CONTENTS<br />
<strong>ST</strong>OR<br />
MAGAZINE<br />
<strong>ST</strong>ORAGE<br />
CONTENTS<br />
SURVEILLANCE DATA:<br />
Covering a l the angles<br />
BACKUP BUDGETING:<br />
No the time for cutbacks<br />
PRODUCT REVIEWS:<br />
ExaGrid, StorageCraft<br />
COMMENT - NEWS - NEWS ANALYSIS - CASE <strong>ST</strong>UDIES - OPINION - PRODUCT REVIEWS<br />
COMMENT….....................................................................4<br />
Backup: what is it good for?<br />
INTERVIEW: BACKUP…..….........................................…..6<br />
Eric Siron, long-standing backup evangelist and author of the recently published<br />
'Backup Bible' eBook, speaks to Storage magazine editor David Tyler<br />
08<br />
CASE <strong>ST</strong>UDY: WATERAID.........................................……8<br />
Richard Landen of WaterAid explains how IBM, Recarta and WaterAid's IT team worked<br />
together on a highly successful data centre migration resulting in significant process<br />
and performance gains<br />
REVIEW: <strong>ST</strong>ORAGECRAFT ONEXAFE SOLO.......….10<br />
PROFILE: SUPERMICRO……......................................…..12<br />
Storage Magazine speaks to Supermicro CEO Charles Liang about how the company<br />
has perfected its 'one-stop' total solutions approach<br />
14<br />
MARKET FOCUS: SURVEILLANCE……..........................….14<br />
David Friend, CEO and co-founder, Wasabi Technologies, discusses different<br />
approaches for fixing the storage issues raised by putting surveillance data in the cloud<br />
THREE <strong>ST</strong>EPS TO OBJECT HEAVEN…………...........…..16<br />
Jerome Wendt of analyst firm DCIG looks at three key features that will help enable<br />
Object storage capacity and performance at scale<br />
CASE <strong>ST</strong>UDY: HEART OF WORCE<strong>ST</strong>ERSHIRE COLLEGE.18<br />
The Heart of Worcestershire College's continued journey into Software-Defined Storage<br />
gives reassurance and certainty faced with variable infrastructure requirements<br />
16<br />
MARKET FOCUS: CLOUD BACKUP……..................…..20<br />
Carl Oliver, Product Manager, Giacom explains why cloud backup is increasingly<br />
important for SMBs and how this opens up new opportunities for service providers<br />
CASE <strong>ST</strong>UDY: WE<strong>ST</strong>COA<strong>ST</strong>…………......................…….22<br />
Databarracks' Backup-as-a-Service offering is helping tech distributor Westcoast to save<br />
resources and add an additional layer of security to its backups<br />
24<br />
TAKE YOUR PARTNERS…….......................................…24<br />
Valentine's Day seems like a distant memory already, so in the spirit of true romance<br />
Storage magazine talks to a panel of industry experts about how to find 'the right match'<br />
when looking for a storage solution that suits your needs<br />
REVIEW: EXAGRID EX84….......................................….28<br />
<strong>ST</strong>RATEGY: DATA MANAGEMENT….....................……30<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>k Radford, Director Enterprise Sales UK, Infinidat, discusses the various growing<br />
pains facing the modern I.T. leader<br />
TECHNOLOGY: ALL-FLASH NAS………...................…..32<br />
Frank Lee, Senior Director of Product Planning at Infortrend, explains how to get the<br />
ultimate performance gains for your applications with all-flash NVMe Scale-Out NAS<br />
30<br />
MANAGEMENT: BACKUP BUDGETS…...................….34<br />
Joe Noonan, General Manager, Unitrends, offers some insights into how best to budget<br />
for backup in <strong>2021</strong><br />
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