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Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What is Archive Anyway?
In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
The Challenge of Protecting Next Generation Databases
Database Technology Evolves Beyond Traditional Data Protection For over three decades, relational databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix have been primary databases for core business applications. They are used to store and analyze what used to be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, Deduplication, Next Generation, NoSQL, RPO, RTO, SQL, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
ownCloud 8.1 Extends Beyond File Sync and Share
The Need to Share The wide spread proliferation of public file sync and share services like Dropbox, Box and various others, make it very easy to share almost any type of file regardless of its size, with anyone you want.…
Tagged with: Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, ownCloud, performance, Scale, Shadow IT
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Virtual Instruments Extends VirtualWisdom Capabilities with 4.3 Release
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 4.3 Briefing Note Today’s data center is dealing with tight budgets, demands for increased storage efficiency and of course higher application performance and availability. In the past, data centers addressed these competing interests by purchasing hardware designed…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Infrastructure, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is Tape still Viable for Data Protection?
Is tape for data protection really dead? There are more than a few people in the industry who seem to think so. Even the tape industry often positions tape as being for archiving rather than data protection. Moreover, there is…
Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities
Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, file sync and share, Recovery, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Reining in Runaway Data Sprawl
Briefing Note: Komprise Data Management Solution As anyone who has been in IT for a while knows, modern organizations are swamped by what has been called a “tsunami of data.” Various industry sources have indicated that data is more than…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Komprise, SaaS, Storage Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, HA, RPS, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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