One of the key challenges to any data protection strategy is deciding where to store data and how to get that data off-site. Initially in most environments, all backups were stored on tape. Those tapes were then packaged up and…
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What is Hybrid Cloud Backup?
Tagged with: Cloud, Collaboration, Comprehensive Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, File Sharing, Hybrid, Infrascale, MSP
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Retroactive Deduplication and Compression
In recent months there has been a lot of attention given to how primary storage deduplication is being implemented; should it be implemented selectively, or always on? The problem with this discussion is that it first assumes that the existing…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Hybrid Flash, Permabit, Retroactive Deduplication, storage array
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Analyst Blog: What are Converged Infrastructures? Part 1 – Hardware Convergence
Every so often it makes sense to take a step back and attempt to define the terms that we in the industry use to describe the approaches we take to solving customer problems. One of those is “converged architectures”. When…
Tagged with: Converged Infrastructure, Convergence, Flash, Hyper-converged, Integration, QOS, Quality of service, Virtual machine, VM
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News Analysis: Datto buys Backupify for complete Cloud Protection
Acquisitions are a common occurrence in the IT market. Most are predictable, but every so often one takes us off-guard. Datto’s acquisition of Backupify falls into that category. But even more rare is this acquisition actually makes sense. Datto is…
Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Managing Snapshots as part of the Data Protection Process
In our recent webinar, “Three Steps to Backup and Recovery Success”, we discussed service level objectives (SLOs) and how to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Snapshots can play a key role in meeting tight RPOs…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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Briefing Note: Removing Tape Pain with B&L Associates Vertices and VaultLedger
Recently I wrote an article “Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape” which explained the advantages of using tape for cold backup storage and active archive storage. The economics behind tape are simply too compelling to ignore. The…
Tagged with: Archive, B&L Associates, Backup, Certificate of Destruction, COD, Disk, Tape
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Analyst Opinion: Two Backup Trends for 2015
Users are demanding more their backup applications than ever before. Faster backups, longer retention and rapid recovery are now an expectation instead of a request. 2015 promises more of the same demands but worse, even faster backups, maybe continuous backup,…
Tagged with: backup application, Copy Data, Data Protection, Opinion, Recovery, Retention, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, TechTarget
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The Dirty Little Secret of Storage TCO
The average data center refreshes their storage system every three to five years. But organizations don’t start this process because the calendar tells them to. Something happens in the environment that forces that upgrade, typically the storage system failing to…
Tagged with: Dell, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, SAS-II, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership
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Briefing Note: Coho Data announces Site-To-Site Replication
A big challenge for a startup in the storage space is catching up to the legacy vendors in terms of features, with one of the most critical and apparently most difficult to complete being site-to-site replication. This feature allows the…
Tagged with: Coho Data, Compression, Encryption, Replication, Scale-Out, Site-to-Site, Snapshot, Software Defined, Sync, Virtual machine
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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?
In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…
Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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