When was the last time you looked at your disaster recovery plan? The beginning of a new year is an excellent time to review it and make sure it is ready for changes within your data center, and changes to…
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White Paper: Is Your DR Plan Ready for 2018?
Tagged with: Backup, Block Level, CDM, Cloud, dr, Ransomware, Recovery, Retention, Unitrends, Unstructured data, Virtualization, VM
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Reshaping the Storage Technology Landscape – Kaminario Briefing Note
The storage industry isn’t changing; it is reshaping. What is the difference? If the industry were changing, it would be its choice to change, driven by internal motivations. Instead, outside influences are reshaping the industry. What are the primary drivers…
Tagged with: Cloud, Composable Storage, dr, Kaminario, NVMe, NVMe-F, Replication, SAS, SDDC, SDS, SSD
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Why Don’t Cloud Backup Solutions Leverage Cloud Compute?
The first iterations of cloud backup solutions were designed primarily to protect individual consumer laptops. Those solutions evolved and eventually were scaled to protect an organization’s laptops. The next logical step was to use the cloud for server and virtual…
Ransomware: The Problem with Paying the Ransom
When ransomware hits an organization, it is very tempting simply to pay the ransom instead of going through the time and effort to replace the encrypted data by recovering from a backup. After paying the ransom, the hackers give a…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Micro Focus, NAS, Ransomware, ROBO, Snapshot
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ChalkTalk Video: Protecting Mission Critical Applications With Recovery In Place Backups
When it comes to mission critical applications, most organizations count on high availability products to protect their mission critical applications. It looks like this; the mission critical application is mirrored or clustered. It is then backed up and in some…
Tagged with: ChalkTalk, Cluster, HA, Mirror, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication
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It is Time to Get Serious About Your Cloud Strategy – Zerto Briefing Note
Most organizations, if they are using cloud resources at all, are only using the cloud for a single purpose. The two most common use cases are backup storage and archive storage. Most organizations also look at the cloud as a…
Understanding NVMe
NVM Express (NVMe) is an optimized, high performance, scalable host controller interface with a streamlined register interface and larger command set designed for accessing memory-based storage attached through the PCIe bus. Put simply’ it is a better protocol for flash…
Creating Enterprise Ready Global File Collaboration – Nasuni Briefing Note
There are several global file collaboration vendors on the market today. These solutions are designed to replace legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems. As the global file collaboration moniker implies, these systems allow the widespread distribution of files. The solutions…
An Alternative Approach to HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructures claim to be a simpler alternative to a traditional architecture with a dedicated compute and a dedicated storage tier. The primary source of the simplification is the elimination of a dedicated storage tier. Instead, HCI integrates storage into…
Tagged with: Block Based, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Replication, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Data Protection Considerations for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Implementing a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) seems easy, buy the basic three-node configuration, plug it into the network and start creating virtual machines. To a large extent, the initial setup and first days of use are just that, easy. The simple…
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