Given the pace of the modern data center, creating a disaster recovery (DR) plan is a significant challenge. Keeping that plan up to date after it’s created is almost impossible because of how quickly the data center changes. If a…
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New eBook: The Value of DR Orchestration
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, Veeam, VM
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Learn How To Solve Your DR Nightmare in Less Than 30 Minutes!
What is your disaster recovery (DR) plan? Most organizations today do not have a formalized process. When disaster strikes, IT scrambles, hoping to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat. A DR plan prioritizes recovery efforts so that personnel can…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, Veeam, VM
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Veritas Flex 5150 Briefing Note – Solving the Edge Data Center Protection Challenge
Organizations are no longer all centrally located at a single headquarters. They are not even a collection of three or four locations. Instead, the modern organization can have dozens of sites. In specific industries like retail, these organizations can have…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Edge Data, Hybrid, IoT, Ransomware, Redundancy, SaaS, Veritas
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Why Office files are More Important than Ever
Files created through Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) are often the result of many of an organization’s employees’ creative energy. If ransomware infects an organization’s data center, these are the files an organization struggles to recover. The typical reason given…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Are You Storing Data in the Cloud? Where do You Store Metadata?
Metadata is data about data. In the case of files, metadata includes information like the last access date and last modified date. An archive or backup solution may use metadata to track the location of the file, or it may…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Complexity is Killing Secondary Storage
Most organizations only use their secondary storage infrastructure as protection storage. In some cases, this is because the secondary storage hardware only supports the backup use case. Even if the organization selects more flexible secondary storage hardware, it still primarily…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud NAS, Cohesity, Compression, Deduplication, Dev/Test, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is Your Storage Ready for the Data-Driven Economy? – SwiftStack Briefing Note
Organizations need to re-think their storage architectures for the data-driven economy. How an organization captures, stores, and analyzes data, can dictate how successful it might be in this new economic model where data drives organizations. The data-driven economy is not…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, AS, Cloud, Container, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Hard disk drive, Retention, Scale, SwiftStack, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
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Virtual Instruments Briefing Note – Virtana Announcement
The data center, in most cases, is a mixture of legacy and modern applications that exist, both on-premises and in the cloud. To provide organizations with a competitive advantage, IT needs to use and manage these resources efficiently. IT professionals…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Migration, ML, Virtana, Virtual Instruments
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Should You Use Image-Based Backups on Unstructured Data?
Most data protection applications are not backing up unstructured data correctly. The massive increase not only in the capacity of unstructured data but also in the number of files represented within the data set makes protecting it difficult. The large…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Understanding the Challenges That AI at Scale Creates
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in its infancy and the requirements it places on the storage architectures that support these workloads are not widely understood. As a result, an organization starting an AI initiative can initially get away with using an…
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