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George Crump

President, Storage Switzerland

George Crump is president and founder of Storage Switzerland, an IT analyst firm focused on the storage and virtualization segments. With 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for datacenters across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one the nation’s largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection. George is responsible for the storage blog on InformationWeek's website and is a regular contributor to publications such as Byte and Switch, SearchStorage, eWeek, SearchServerVirtualizaiton, and SearchDataBackup.

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Cyber Risk
File Sync And Sharing: Users Won't Give It UpFile Sync And Sharing: Users Won't Give It Up
byGeorge Crump
Nov 1, 2013
3 Min Read
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Application Security
Quick Guide To Flash Storage Latency WarsQuick Guide To Flash Storage Latency Wars
byGeorge Crump
Oct 29, 2013
3 Min Read

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Cyber Risk
Flash Storage Has Special Security Needs
Flash Storage Has Special Security Needs
Sep 26, 2013
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Should You Use Software-Defined Flash Storage?
Should You Use Software-Defined Flash Storage?
Jun 24, 2013
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Endpoint Data Protection: Tablet Trouble
Endpoint Data Protection: Tablet Trouble
Jun 10, 2013
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2 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Active Data Vs. Active Archive
Active Data Vs. Active Archive
May 6, 2013
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4 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
3 Ways To Protect Cache Writes
3 Ways To Protect Cache Writes
Feb 12, 2013
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Find The Right Data Archive Method
Find The Right Data Archive Method
Dec 10, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Managing The Multi-Vendor Backup
Managing The Multi-Vendor Backup
Nov 29, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Consolidation At The Disk Backup Appliance
Consolidation At The Disk Backup Appliance
Nov 5, 2012
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4 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
How To Choose Best SSD For Midsize Data Centers
How To Choose Best SSD For Midsize Data Centers
Oct 5, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Flash First: Your Next Storage Strategy?
Flash First: Your Next Storage Strategy?
Sep 5, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
The State Of Virtual Data Protection And Recovery
The State Of Virtual Data Protection And Recovery
Aug 28, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Deduplication Performance: More Than Processing Power
Deduplication Performance: More Than Processing Power
Jun 19, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
SSD Tiering: Why Caching Won't Die
SSD Tiering: Why Caching Won't Die
May 29, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
How To Protect Big Data Analytics
How To Protect Big Data Analytics
Apr 20, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
What's Behind The Storage Startup Boom?
What's Behind The Storage Startup Boom?
Feb 17, 2012
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
What Makes A Top Storage Startup?
What Makes A Top Storage Startup?
Feb 17, 2012
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2 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
The Death Of DRAM?
The Death Of DRAM?
Aug 10, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Availability
How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Availability
Aug 1, 2011
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4 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Security
How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Security
Jul 21, 2011
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4 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Time To Replace Your Backup Application?
Time To Replace Your Backup Application?
Jun 15, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Big Data A Big Backup Challenge
Big Data A Big Backup Challenge
Jun 10, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
How To Design A 100 Year Data Retention Strategy
How To Design A 100 Year Data Retention Strategy
Jun 3, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Forget Tape Vs. Disk, Use Them Together
Forget Tape Vs. Disk, Use Them Together
Apr 21, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Can Archive Replace Backup?
Can Archive Replace Backup?
Apr 15, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
The Passive Primary Storage Tier
The Passive Primary Storage Tier
Apr 4, 2011
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4 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Dealing With Peak Storage I/O
Dealing With Peak Storage I/O
Apr 1, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Collecting The SSD Garbage
Collecting The SSD Garbage
Mar 28, 2011
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4 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Understanding SSD Vendor Talk
Understanding SSD Vendor Talk
Mar 25, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Storage Performance Challenges In Virtualized Environments
Storage Performance Challenges In Virtualized Environments
Mar 15, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Establishing Tiered Recovery Points
Establishing Tiered Recovery Points
Mar 9, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Dealing With Recovery Transfer Time
Dealing With Recovery Transfer Time
Mar 7, 2011
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3 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
What We Can Learn From The Gmail Crash
What We Can Learn From The Gmail Crash
Mar 2, 2011
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5 Min Read
byGeorge Crump
Application Security
Automatic Storage Optimization
Automatic Storage Optimization
Mar 1, 2011
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2 Min Read
byGeorge Crump

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