It is normal for many environments to run applications in the cloud. For some environments, the new normal is running applications in multiple clouds, as well as running applications in their own data center or private cloud. If the new…
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Is There a Better Way to Backup Unstructured Data? – Igneous Briefing Note
It’s no secret that unstructured data is consuming data center tiles across the world. Structured data may have been king at one point, but the vast amount of storage in today’s data centers is being consumed by unstructured data. This…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Igneous, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, Unstructured data
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What Should you Expect from Disk Backup in 2017?
You need more than a network share and deduplication to stand out among the disk backup crowd in 2017. Things have come a long way since disk backup targets started appearing 17 years ago. The table stakes may still be…
Is It Safe to Preserve Data in The Cloud
We are living in the information age, and modern companies rely on their data more than any other time in history. Many companies are leveraging the cloud for preserving this vast ocean of data, but some companies are concerned about…
Tagged with: AWS, Bit Rot, Cloud, CloudLanes, Data corruption, Encryption, HA, Ransomware, Snapshot
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Why Would You Put SQL Server in a Container? – WinDocks Briefing Note
There’s no question that containers are growing in popularity, and attendance at this year’s DockerCcon is evidence of that. But the bulk of applications that are moving into containers still tend to be stateless applications without the need for persistent…
Tagged with: Backup, Container, Containers, Docker, dr, Migration, SQL, WinDocks
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How to Backup a cPanel Website to Google Cloud Storage
This blog post is part of a multi-part series. Before reading this blog post, make sure you take a look at my previous post, How to Backup a cPanel Website. You might also want to look at How to Backup…
What’s Wrong with DRaaS?
Many people feel DRaaS is the next wave in data protection. Just like flash solves so many problems in the primary storage world, DRaaS solves a ton of problems in the backup and DR worlds. And it does all that…
Tagged with: Backup, CDM, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Flash, Replication
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Do AWS VMs Need to be Backed Up?
I’m amazed at how often the question of backing up virtual machines running within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure comes up. The short answer is, “absolutely!” Thinking that your VMs in AWS do not need backups is a surefire…
What is a Consistency Group?
Understanding consistency groups is essential to having a properly functioning disaster recovery process. They speak to the reality that it is not possible to recover everything at the same time. Creating recovery groups makes a recovery from a disaster much…
Are Instant Recovery and Inline Deduplication Compatible? – Altaro Briefing Note
Is instant recovery compatible with inline deduplication? That’s the question I found myself asking after listening to the briefing for Altaro VM Backup 7, since Altaro announced the addition of both features in this version. I’m a fan of instant…
Tagged with: Altaro, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Instant Recovery, Replication, VM, VMware
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