“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…
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How File Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud can solve the Copy Data dilemma
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Storm, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, NAS, Nasuni, RPO, Security, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Cloud Integrated Backup and DR
The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Latency, Recovery, Restoration, Storage
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Reducing Storage TCO with Private Cloud Storage
With the burgeoning growth of data, many legacy storage systems simply struggle to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) in check. This article will look at the ways that Private Cloud Storage can address the TCO shortcomings of legacy…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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SQL High Availability at low-cost Cloud prices
Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL application availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small to medium sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability…
Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology, Software Defined
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Will your Converged Infrastructure reduce operational costs?
Some manufacturers have developed converged offerings that make the deployment of server compute, networking and storage resources more streamlined by pre-integrating each component into a rack enclosure. While this reduces deployment time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ongoing operational…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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What is the cost of Application Downtime?
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Can Joe’s Plumbing benefit from Google and Facebook Storage?
Do businesses really need Facebook or Google like web-scale storage capabilities? After all, these organizations support Exabytes of information on a global scale. Many businesses today are merely looking for ways to lower their total cost of storage ownership (TCO),…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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SlideShare – 5 ways your Backup Design can impact Virtualized Data Protection
Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, disk backup, ExaGrid, Integration, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, Scalability, Scale-Out, Veeam, Virtualization
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vCloud Powered Data Protection-as-a-Service
Automated data protection is becoming increasingly important given the fact that multiple IT stakeholders are taking a more active role in protecting their critical data. Virtual server administrators, database administrators and other application owners are now involved in the data…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Data Protection-as-a-Service, DPaaS, EMC, RPO, RTO, Server Virtualization, VDC, Virtual, Virtualization
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Private Cloud Storage cost containment
Reducing the cost of storage may seem like a fool’s errand in a world where enterprise production data is predicted to grow by 800% over the next five years. It’s the proverbial “finger in the dyke”. But if there was…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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