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March 22, 2011  1:40 PM

Podcast: SMB email archiving tips



Posted by: Mkellett
archiving services, email archiving, searchsmbstorage.com, SMBs

Is email archiving important? As emails grow and grow, companies, including SMBs are trying to determine whether or not it's important to have an email archive service for their environment. Email archives are...

April 9, 2010  10:33 AM

VTLs vs. disk-to-disk backup for SMBs



Posted by: Mkellett
disk-to-disk backup, searchsmbstorage.com, virtual tape library

Disk backup is popular for data backup and recovery. Companies can choose from a variety of strategies such as disk-to-disk (D2D), continuous data protection (CDP), and


March 19, 2010  3:04 PM

How virtualization can help in an SMB environment



Posted by: Mkellett
data migration, searchsmbstorage.com, storage virtualization

Data migration can be a frustrating data backup process for any storage environment, including small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). But


March 18, 2010  10:40 AM

Host bus adapters for SMBs



Posted by: Mkellett
host bus adapter, searchsmbstorage.com, storage area network

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often deal with the same frustrations and challenges as enterprise data storage environments, just on a smaller scale. For example, host bus adapters (HBAs) can often...


February 24, 2010  10:37 AM

How to choose the right collocation center for SMBs



Posted by: Mkellett
collocation centers, disaster recovery, searchdisasterrecovery.com, searchsmbstorage.com

A collocation center is a building or site where media and telecommunicatons are converged and connected. And sometimes, depending on the circumstances in a company, it can become their data center, providing...


February 22, 2010  4:18 PM

RAID for SMBs



Posted by: Mkellett
data protection, RAID, searchsmbstorage.com

RAID has been around for many years, and is part of many data storage environments for added data protection. If a disk drive fails, having RAID will allow you to contiue accessing the data by adding...


January 29, 2010  3:20 PM

Apple iPad could affect SMB data storage environments



Posted by: Mkellett
Add new tag, searchsmbstorage.com, smb data storage

Although the Apple iPad did receive a great deal of negative response when it was released, Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at The StorageIO Group, hypothesizes that thin devices such as the Apple iPad can potentially benefit small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). But how...


November 24, 2009  3:02 PM

Should SMBs switch from VMware Consolidated Backup to vSphere?



Posted by: Mkellett
searchsmbstorage.com, smb data storage, VCB, vSphere

Many data storage administrators currently use VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) to plug in third party media to their data backup environment. However, with the recent release of vSphere, some small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) are considering switching to vSphere from VCB. Is this a good...


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