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…
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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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ChalkTalk Video: When Should You Use High Availability instead of Backup?
Most data centers have some sort of backup strategy where it copies data on a periodic basis, typically once per night, to a secondary storage device and then either replicated or transported to a disaster recovery site. They count on…
ChalkTalk Video: Archive – It’s About More Than Saving Money
When most organizations consider an archiving project their primary goal is to save money. Basically they are looking to move data off of expensive storage valued at a couple dollars per GB to secondary storage valued at pennies a GB.…
What is Hybrid DRaaS
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) outsources the typical DR process to a cloud provider so when a data center loss event occurs an organization can re-start their critical applications in the provider’s cloud. DRaaS saves an organization the cost…
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