My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Can Snapshots Be Backups?
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What is Latency? And How is it Different from IOPS?
The typical performance metrics used to categorize flash performance are throughput and IOPS. The most important metric may actually be latency. The elimination of latency has become a top concern for customers and flash vendors. That has led to solutions that…
Scale Out or Scale Up? 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer
In theory, scale up storage appeals because the data center can start small and add capacity and performance as needed. Do these theoretical advantages apply to the use cases in which All-Flash storage is most commonly deployed; databases and virtualization?…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Latency, Pure, Scalability, Solid-state drive
Posted in Article, Video
Posted in Article, Video
Cloud Failure! – Lessons Learned from the Nirvanix Shutdown
This slideshare will cover how organizations can mitigate risk when adopting public cloud storage while enhancing performance and lowering costs. By registering for the On-Demand Webinar, you will receive an exclusive copy of the following whitepaper: “Cloud Storage Failure Survival…
Posted in Webinar
VMAX Made Easy
We concluded our full day of briefings at EMC by meeting with the VMAX product team. The VMAX product family represents EMC’s top of the line, enterprise class storage solution. While there are some similarities between the midrange VNX and…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, EMCbreifingDay, IOPS, VMAX, VNX, XtremIO
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
EMC Briefing Day – NetWorker 8
Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCbreifingDay, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, Virtual Tape Library, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Avamar’s Virtualization Journey Continues
As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…
Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Data deduplication, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
EMC’s Remedy to the Accidental Backup Architecture
As we hit the mid-point of our EMC briefing day, we sat down with the folks from EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division. The first item of discussion was the Data Domain product family. As we have covered in recent…
Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Oracle, Oracle Database, RMAN, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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