The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…
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Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Encryption, FC, ISCSI, NFS, Replication, S3, SMB, Virtual, VTL
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Do You Understand Your Disaster Recovery Buckets?
Disaster Recovery is a complex and fragile process. That is why it is important for IT to simplify that process as much as possible. An area where we are seeing success is how you group applications. While each application will…
StorageShort: Are You Ready for the New Recovery Time Objective?
As long as there has been applications, there have been applications that need zero, or near zero downtime. These are applications where the life of the organization, or even human lives, literally depend on its operation. There has also always…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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StorageShort: Will Enterprise File Sync and Share Encryption Really Protect You?
Ask any Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) vendor if they provide encryption and you are going to get a emphatic, “Yes!” They will claim end-to-end encryption and let you assume that you are covered. But are you really? Certainly…
Does Your Copy Data Solution Play Checkers or Chess? – Catalogic Briefing Note
A copy data management solution should save organization’s money in two areas. First, and most obvious, physical capacity consumption by creating virtual copies instead of actual copies, but any storage system with snapshot capabilities can at some level claim that…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Cloud, Copy Data, MS-SQL, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SDS, Snapshot, Virtualization
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How To Cut Your DR Expenses
One of the reasons why disaster recovery attempts often fail is DR process planning and operation is so expensive. The expenses associated with the DR process leads organizations to try to cut corners in an effort to reduce costs. That…
ChalkTalk Video: Are You Fragmenting Your Cloud?
Most data centers today have multiple primary storage systems. Often, each one supports a specific platform or environment and each of these systems are either backed up or archived. The problem is most data centers’ cloud architectures are at least…
Should a Backup Appliance be Part of your Backup Refresh?
Backup needs a refresh to keep up with recovery demands of modern application and increasingly expectant users. They expect an “always-on data center.” IT professionals are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. For many, an always-on strategy is a concept that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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ChalkTalk Video: Best Next Steps for Hybrid Cloud
The first step to the cloud, for most organizations, is backup. They use the cloud as either the primary or secondary backup target, essentially leverage cloud storage as a giant data dumping ground. But this use case totally ignores something…
StorageShort: How is the App Explosion Impacting Backup Service Levels?
Most data centers are reporting a dramatic increase in the number of applications they have to deploy, support and protect. Driving this phenomenon is the improvements in developer tools that created the whole Dev/Ops movement. While most of these apps…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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