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IT-Less Backup? Can the Cloud save the business?

Most business owners don’t worry about data backup or recovery. But when a critical application becomes unavailable or worse, when the business loses data they panic. Data protection becomes a high priority and a cloud based backup solution seems like

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How to unlock the power of Cloud Storage – File Versioning vs. Locking

Private or hybrid cloud file sharing provides many business benefits over traditional on-premise network attached storage. It enables organizations to consolidate infrastructure and remove duplicate silos of storage from multiple sites and office locations. Cloud file sharing reduces storage costs,

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You can do better than ioMeter and Vdbench

Storage professionals need a way to test and validate that new or proposed storage architectures will perform well in their application environments. Common storage testing “solutions” like ioMeter and Vdbench, however, aren’t going to cut it. While these tools enable

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Webinar – Designing Backup to reduce downtime for Business Owners

The 5 Critical Questions to ensure you have protection against downtime How much downtime can your business handle before it starts to cause a real disruption to the bottom line? Studies show businesses of all sizes start seeing lasting effects

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Why Virtualized Backup Design Matters

VM specific backup solutions like Veeam are increasingly being used to protect virtualized environments instead of more traditional enterprise backup systems. They provide a seamless way to non-disruptively and efficiently backup virtual machine data plus they include a number of

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Storage, Data Protection and Data Insight All-In-One

If knowledge is power, then DataGravity’s solution offering may be a way for businesses to tap into that power. During Day 2 of VMworld, we sat down with the folks from DataGravity to discuss how their “data aware” storage platform

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Four Requirements for adding DR-as-a-Service to VMware

For years, organizations have struggled with maintaining functional disaster recovery capabilities for their most critical business systems. The capital investment for redundant hardware, software and data center infrastructure, along with the personnel time required to ensure that business applications are

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Understanding the Oracle Data Protection Gap

For many, snapshots are the go to data protection method for protecting Oracle databases. They can provide efficient, rapid protection from database corruption with high data integrity. But snapshot data protection has its limitations. First, snapshot copies can become corrupted

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SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference – For Storage Engineers by Storage Engineers

Keeping up with all the changes taking place in the storage industry is a major challenge for today’s storage architect. From high performance flash storage and cloud oriented object storage systems to software defined storage and big data analytics platforms,

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