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SlideShare: Disaster Recovery as a Service in Action

By leveraging the cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) eliminates many of the costs associated with a DR site, changing it from a capital cost to an operational cost. Does DRaaS sound too good to be true? Can organizations…

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Webinar: Dealing with the Elephant in the Datacenter – How to Protect, Manage, and Leverage Unstructured Data

IT is facing new challenges in managing unstructured data. Organizations want to store more unstructured data and keep it longer for future analysis. However, the protection and retention methods of traditional backup and archive solutions are not keeping pace with…

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The Top Three Cloud Recovery Concerns

The cloud reduces an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) costs while at the same time upgrading its quality. Cloud DR has a mathematical advantage over internal DR. The organization doesn’t have to invest in a DR site nor does it need…

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Will the Operating System Kill SDS? – LINBIT Briefing Note

Software defined storage (SDS) continues to struggle for relevance in a crowded storage marketplace. While a few products are gaining a following, many more have either failed or been sold to other vendors. Additionally, now operating systems also pose a…

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Is Encryption Overrated

When the subject of data security comes up, it often begins, and unfortunately, ends with encryption. Indeed, encrypting data is critical, but in most cases, if the hacker or malware program compromises a user or administrator account, then more than…

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Webinar: How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for less than $95,000!

All-Flash Arrays are the model of inefficiency and as flash media increases in density and performance, the cost of this inefficiency becomes more obvious. Enterprise solid-state drives (SSD) deliver 70,000 IOPS per drive but most AFAs need 24 drives or…

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DRaaS is For More Than Just Disasters

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) enables organizations to improve the recovery response time and lower disaster plan costs. In our recent on demand webinar we not only discussed the value of DRaaS we also provided a live demo of…

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Using the Cloud Data Fabric for Data Protection

Most organizations use data protection as their first step into the cloud. Unfortunately, that first step, like many first steps, often results in a stumble. If organizations don’t create a cloud data fabric first, they often use an extension to…

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Making Primary Storage Fulfill the 3-2-1 Rule

The 3-2-1 rule states that an organization should have three copies of data on two different types of media, with IT storing one copy off-site and preferably offline. Traditionally, organizations count on the backup process to meet the 3-2-1 rule’s…

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