All restores are not created equal, even during a disaster. The reality is that IT should not recover most mission critical systems from a backup of any kind (flash, disk or tape). Instead, IT should recover these critical systems from…
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Skip the Disk – Send Backups Straight to Tape
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Solving DR’s Two Biggest Failures – Documentation and Testing with Orchestration
During a disaster, there is a lot that can go wrong, and IT needs to expect the unexpected. In most cases though, it is not the unexpected that causes a disaster recovery (DR) effort to fail. The primary reasons that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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The Ultimate Tape Advantage – Cold Offsite Storage
One of the biggest advantages to integrating tape media into the backup infrastructure is the door it opens for the organization to leverage cold offsite storage. As we’ve discussed throughout this series most data occupying capacity on a disk backup…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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When is it Time to Move to NVMe?
Most major storage vendors are now delivering Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based All-Flash Arrays. Initially, most of these arrays use NVMe drives internally but connect to the storage network via standard network protocols like SCSI over Fibre Channel. A few…
Webinar: Designing SAN Infrastructure for NVMe
NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) are on the near-horizon for many organizations. IT planners need to ready their SANs for this new low latency, high-performance storage technology. To accomplish this task, organizations need to invest now in technology that…
Solving the Media and Advertising Firm Storage Challenge
Many media and advertising firms require multi-site collaboration and external file sharing. Like most industries, these firms are also facing unprecedented data growth both within their core data center and at the edge. They, like the larger media and entertainment…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CTERA, Data Retention, dr, Edge Filer, HDD, NAS, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, SSD
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Automating Hybrid Cloud
Creating a hybrid cloud is much harder than organizations expect. Cloud infrastructures run different hypervisors than on-premises, which means it’s necessary to transform the workloads before they can run in the cloud, and then transform them back if the organization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cohesity, Container, Dev/Test, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication
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Comparing the Price of Disk-Only Backup to Tape Integrated Backup
As discussed in our last blog, tape, when correctly integrated into the disk architecture, does not negatively impact the performance of the backup infrastructure. In fact in some cases tape improves it while also providing a more efficient, more reliable…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Where Did All the NAS Vendors Go?
In 2010, there were almost a dozen major NAS vendors on the market. Today, the market has shrunk, ironically at a time when organizations need unstructured data storage solutions more than ever. The primary reasons for the shrinking of the…
Protecting the Other Door – Application Vulnerabilities
Ransomware gets a lot of attention from IT professionals and data protection vendors alike. Ransomware however, is only one door that bad actors can use to compromise the data center. Another door is application or operating system vulnerability. While several…
Tagged with: Backup, Cohesity, Cyber Attack, Encryption, Machine Learning, ML, Ransomware, Recovery
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