“Backups.” It’s the universal term used to describe a much broader set of tools that make up the entire data protection process. There are varying degrees of data protection offered as features of RAID, backup, replication and snapshots. And each…
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The Storage Challenges to IT Agility
IT is under pressure to move to a self-service environment, where users and applications “order up” IT on an “as needed” basis. Behind the scenes the IT infrastructure is supposed to respond and adapt to those orders as they come…
Is Your Primary Storage DR Ready?
User and organizational expectations are higher than ever. They want high performance access to massive amounts of data and in the event that something goes wrong they expect IT to resolve the situation instantly and cost effectively no matter how…
The Efficiency Challenges facing Deduplication Appliances
Disk is the initial and in many cases the only backup storage device most data centers use today. Once that backup is completed the data is then replicated to another disk backup appliance or to the cloud. The success of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Object Storage, Replication
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Introducing DRaaS 2.0
When Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) was first introduced its advantages were immediately obvious to the organizations that chose to use it. Namely the cost savings in not having to equip and operate a remote DR site. But limitations…
Webinar: Is Your Storage Ready for Disaster?
The recovery expectations of users and organizations is changing and their tolerance for downtime is lower than ever. IT professionals can no longer rely on the traditional backup and recovery process to meet these new requirements. Primary storage needs to…
Backup vs. Archive
Backup is the process of making copies of an organization’s data so in the event that data was corrupted, erased or becomes unavailable for any reason, IT can use the copies to restore it. Backup should have the primary goal…
StorageShort: The Impact of NAS Sprawl
Network Attached Storage (NAS) are ideal for storing unstructured data, especially user home directories. But these systems tend to fill up and organizations end up buying additional units, in some cases dozens, which leads to NAS Sprawl. The situation is…
Tagged with: Big data, IoT, NAS, performance, Quantum, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Don’t Delete Data from Your Archive
In a recent blog my colleague W. Curtis Preston used the movie “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” as an excellent example of why organizations should take great care in how they manage data archives. In that blog he suggests,…
Overcoming All-Flash Array Post Implementation Problems
Storage Switzerland suggested a few years ago that IT professionals look for ways to get as much as 10 years out of their flash arrays. The problem was, as we cited at that time, most storage hardware manufacturers counted on…
Tagged with: Capacity, Compression, Data Reduction, Deduplication, Density, Flash, Flash Array, Thin provisioning
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