The definition of backup is always changing. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. When backups started being stored on disk, the tradition of putting backed up data into a container…
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Analysis of Actifio’s Results in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IaaS, Object Storage, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How Important is Search to Scale-Out NAS?
Finding a file you wrote on your laptop’s hard drive can be difficult. If a file you collaborated on is stored on your department’s file server, it can be even more difficult to find. You just need to remember the…
It’s Hard Out There for a Pump: The Changing Nature of Content Storage and Delivery
Content distribution and delivery systems, historically referred to as video pumps, have a much more complicated job than ever before. While technology is enabling streamlining of some operations, it is also increasing customer expectations of anytime, anywhere availability. How the…
Ceph: Roll Your Own or Turnkey?
Ceph offers an open source storage alternative to those who need object, block, and file services. Initially developed at UC Santa Cruz and funded by a number of government agencies, Ceph has grown into a very interesting solution for a…
Tagged with: CEPH, Cluster, Concurrent, Migrate, Open Source, Replication, Scale, SDS, TCO
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Can You Backup a Nutanix Cluster to Amazon S3? – Comtrade Software Briefing Note
Data centers of all types are increasingly trying to figure out how to store backups in the cloud. VMware and Hyper-V customers have a variety of options for doing this, but Nutanix customers using the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) have historically…
NetApp Holds Annual Conference Amidst Mandalay Bay Shooting
If NetApp handles its business as well as it handled Insight 2017 – held in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas – NetApp will do just fine. The conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, went…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, GreenQloud, HCI, Hypervisor, Migration, NAS, NetApp, NetApp Insight, Replication, SolidFire, Spinnaker
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Is Recovery in the Cloud the New Standard
The cloud is increasingly becoming the disaster recovery option of choice. In fact, it’s really hard to argue with the cost and functionality available from the various cloud vendors that are available today. Recovering to the cloud seems even better…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Hypervisor, Replication, Tape, VM
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Can You Share Files Without File Sync and Share?
Enterprise IT departments have struggled with file sharing for some time. The traditional solutions were deemed by many users to be passé and not in keeping with modern workflows. This caused many users to resort to consumer-grade solutions, leading to…
How to Archive Video and Audio But Still Find it – Archive360 Briefing Note
This week at Microsoft Ignite, the Azure team announced it added some interesting features to its object storage platform that dramatically increase the value of storing data in the Azure cloud. These features are just now beginning to appear in…
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Audio, Backup, Cloud, Metadata, Microsoft Ignite, Object Storage, Video
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