Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
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DRaaS requires new questions
In his recent column “DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App” my colleague Eric Slack predicted that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will become the predominant cloud offering. I agree, DRaaS is almost too compelling for many organizations to…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Software as a service
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Webinar & Lab Review: Enterprise NAS for Highly Dense VM Environments
Can NAS Scale to Meet the I/O Demand? Can Network Attached Storage (NAS) deliver the performance that a highly dense virtual infrastructure demands? Do you want a better answer than: “We think so”? In this webinar we prove that NAS…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Exclusive Report: Can your Backup Design handle Veeam?
Veeam and data protection applications like it, arm data protection professionals with a new set of capabilities that they didn’t have access to in the past. So powerful are these capabilities that they can justify the acceleration to a 100%…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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Developing your 2015 Flash Strategy
As we approach the last quarter of 2014, IT professionals are reaching out to me about what their flash strategy should be in 2015. Many are looking to move beyond the adoption phase that addresses point solutions and into a…
All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management
Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, Server Side Flash, Software Defined, Solid State Disk, SQL, SSD, Virtualization
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VMworld 2014: Can Arcserve make a comeback?
This week in San Francisco, we spent a lot of time meeting with all the new and emerging companies in the storage market. We talked about hot topics like flash storage and server side storage. It came as a surprise…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Replication, Service Level, Source Side Deduplication
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Webinar – The five ways your Backup Design can Impact Virtualized Data Protection
Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization
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Enabling Service Level Data Protection – Dell’s Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite
The standardization of server and desktop virtualization, the uncontrollable growth of unstructured data and the increasing importance of databases are forcing IT planners to face reality and rethink their data protection strategies. While they still need to use enterprise backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Dell, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Virtualization
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Storage Performance, the VDI challenge
When IT planners are asked to list their top challenges with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) they often come up with a variety of answers, like gaining user acceptance, delivering an experience similar to that of a stand-alone desktop or driving…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, IBM, IOPS, performance, Software Defined Storage, VDI
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