As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…
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Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations
Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
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Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems
Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…
Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
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What’s causing the Copy Data Explosion
Remember back when companies had copy machines in every department? Making copies was a tedious exercise that probably wasted more paper than anything else. But for the IT department, creating copies (data copies) is a far more serious problem, one…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Does Post Process Deduplication have a Role in the Future of Deduplication
In a recent article “The State of Deduplication in 2015” we took a look at how deduplication is impacting the data center. Deduplication continues to change how data protection is performed and it is dramatically changing primary storage, most notably…
Analyst Blog: The IOPS Gap
At Storage Switzerland, we have the privilege of talking to IT professionals from around the world about a variety of subjects, one of the most popular of which is storage I/O performance. While IOPS is a familiar discussion point both…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, I/O, IOPS, performance
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How Cloud can enable the All-Flash Data Center
It’s been said that, given the choice, every data center would choose to be all-flash. This is because access to near limitless performance not only increases application scale it also simplifies many day-to-day storage management tasks. This potential has led…
Storage Q&A: High Availability for Data Centers of all Sizes
SIOS Technologies and Storage Switzerland recently joined forces for a highly attended webinar. The attendees asked some outstanding questions about flexible HA and DR for virtual servers and cloud environments. Joining Storage Switzerland Founder and Chief Steward George Crump on…
Tagged with: Asynchronous, High Availability, Hypervisor, RAID, Redundancy, Replication, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, Synchronous
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Copy Data vs. Snapshots
As I discussed in an earlier column “Not All Snapshots are the Same”, storage systems that use a re-directed snapshot technique can typically maintain thousands of snapshots without impacting storage performance. But just because you can maintain thousands of snapshots,…
Tagged with: Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Point-in-Time, Retention, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance
Backup appliances have become a popular method for backup software vendors to deliver their software. It eliminates much of the hassle of initial installation and makes on-going support easier, since the vendor is now dealing with a more common foundation.…
Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Migration, Replication, Tape, Virtual machine
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How FireHost Architects for Storage Performance
FireHost is a leading secure managed cloud provider helping companies protect data and meet compliance requirements, typically for PCI and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPA) driven businesses. In this video we talk with FireHost Vice President of Technology Todd…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, HIPA, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, Load DynamiX, performance
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