A data protection solution has many parts. First, obviously, there is the data protection software that moves data from production storage to secondary storage. The software, of course, gets a lot of attention. It has to protect all of an…
Yearly Archives: 2016
A Secondary Storage Game Changer? – Commvault Go 2016
Tagged with: Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
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Data Management as a Strategy – Commvault Go 2016
A complete data management requires solutions for data protection, data preservation, copy management, data mobility, data classification, data search and disaster recovery. There are numerous point solutions on the market today that address these needs, but most only cover one…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Integration, Replication, Snapshot
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Do you Always Need to Backup?
Typically backup is the copying of data from one type of storage system (e.g. primary storage) into another type of storage system (e.g. backup system) for the purposes of recovery in case the first copy becomes unavailable. This definition works…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, HGST, Object Storage, Ransomware
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Designing an All-Flash Object Store
Object storage is set to become THE way organizations will store unstructured data. As this transition occurs those same organizations are expecting more from object storage than just a “cheap and deep” way to store information. They expect the system…
Tagged with: Flash, Latency (engineering), Metadata, Nexenta, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support
NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Should Object Storage Systems use a Filesystem? – DDN WOS Briefing Note
Object storage systems store objects and file systems store files. While an object and a file are typically the same thing, how they are stored is not the same; it is the difference between an object storage system and a…
Can the SME market automate DR? – Zetta Briefing Note
The Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) market is often overlooked by storage hardware and software vendors. Some vendors focus only on the enterprise customers who need many petabytes of data while other vendors focus only on individuals and the SMB…
SlideShare: Flash Myth: Flash is for Everything vs. Flash is for One Thing
Different workloads demand different attributes from their storage. These differences lead some to believe flash storage is only good for certain point use cases like accelerating databases. But the performance of flash systems lead others to claim a single flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, IBM, performance
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Webinar: What’s Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and How to Fix it
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to…
Webinar: The Art of Storage Management
Any organization that takes a moment to study the data on their primary storage system will quickly realize that the majority (as much as 90 percent) of data that is stored on it has not been accessed for months if…
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