Last week a legend in backup, disaster recovery, and data storage passed; Jon Toigo. My first foray into storage was thanks to Jon. His 1989 book on disaster recovery launched me into the world of data protection and high availability.…
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SlideShare: The Hybrid Cloud Data Gravity Problem and How to Fix It
Most organization’s use of public cloud storage resources is the hybrid use case. A hybrid cloud strategy enables organizations to leverage the location and resources that make the most sense for the given workload. A hybrid cloud strategy though requires…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, File Virtualization, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage
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Cyber Attack on VFEmail Evaporates 18 Years of Data!
In what may be one of the most devastating attacks in recent history, email provider VFEmail is working through the aftermath of a massive cyberattack and is indicating that 18 years’ worth of its user’s email data is lost forever.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fuji, Fujifilm, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, VM
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The TCO of Premium Node Hardware for HCI
While the per node cost of using premium hardware in Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2.0 (HCI) is higher than the per node cost of using commodity hardware common to HCI 1.0, the total cost of ownership is significantly lower. The primary reason…
Tagged with: Axe, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, NVMe, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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15 Minute Friday: How to Move From Legacy DR to DRaaS
Most data centers still use a legacy DR strategy of replicating or even physically transporting backups to a dedicated disaster recovery (DR) site, or a secondary site owned by the organization. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) delivers a compelling…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Webinar: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs
Reducing or a least slowing the growth of storage costs is a top priority facing IT organizations in 2019. In this live webinar with Storage Switzerland and SolarWinds, you will learn the three steps IT professionals can take to lower…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Using the Cloud to Integrate Backup and Archive – HubStor Briefing Note
For decades the best practice for backup and archive was to keep the processes separate. The storage hardware products that support traditional backups are typically very different from those that support archive. The software products are also very different and…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Corruption, Data Protection, HubStor, NFS, Ransomware, SMB, Unstructured data
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What Can Storage Learn From Server Consolidation?
Storage consolidation projects are permanently on the IT project whiteboard. The process typically starts after IT realizes that their data center is overrun by multiple storage systems from multiple vendors. Storage Switzerland finds that most data centers have 5-6 different…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, ML, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization, VMware
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Calculating the ROI of Data Protection Service Level Objective
Most data centers try to create a “best efforts” data protection strategy which treats all data and applications equally. Typically the organization uses one backup application, a single backup target device and replicates all data to a secondary site or…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Can Cloud Backup Fix Backup’s True Problem?
Cloud backup has the potential to ease backup pain while also lowering costs significantly. Most cloud backup solutions tend to focus on lowering costs, but while they claim to simplify operations, many cloud solutions are very similar to their on-premises…
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