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…
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News Analysis: Datto buys Backupify for complete Cloud Protection
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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Backup 2.0 – How Primary Storage, Backup Software and Backup Hardware are solving data protection challenges
Data protection is more than just backup and backup is more that just moving data from point A to point B. Data centers need to design a layered data protection strategy that allows them to meet a wide variety of…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, RAID, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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SlideShare – How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array
One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Deduplication makes Hybrid Arrays more predictable
Hybrid arrays, arrays that mix flash and hard drives in order to strike a balance between dollar per GB and dollar per IOP, typically cause one common point of concern for IT planners; Predictably. One of the key ways to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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