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Is It Safe to Preserve Data in The Cloud

Posted on April 27, 2017 by wcurtispreston

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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Is it Time to Reboot Primary Storage?

Posted on March 28, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Primary storage has remained the same for quite some time. It comes in two primary forms: block or file, also known as SAN or NAS. Yes, each of these two forms can be filled with a mix of ingredients, including…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, file sync and share, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, Scale-Out
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What to expect from your VMware Storage

Posted on March 2, 2017 by wcurtispreston

VMware changed the data center so much that it is hard to imagine a world without virtualization. One challenge for VMware customers (still) – as well as customers of other hypervisors – is storage technology hasn’t always kept pace with…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Fibre Channel, Hedvig, Hypervisor, ISCSI, Replication, SAS, SATA, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, VMware
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Is There A Better Option Than DRaaS?

Posted on January 26, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is very appealing to data center administrators looking to meet ever tightening recovery objectives but still reduce costs. By leveraging DRaaS, organizations can eliminate the cost of a secondary site and buying stand-by equipment…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Latency, Replication
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Do you need to Backup your Sync/Share Service?

Posted on January 18, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Sync and share services need backup for all the same reasons that you need to backup everything else. A lot of people think this isn’t the case, but the short version of the answer to the question is yes, you…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data corruption, file sync and share, Ransom, Recovery, Tervela
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The Impact of Big Backup on Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication

Posted on December 8, 2016 by George Crump

Thanks to data efficiency, disk is the primary backup target in most data centers. However, with backup, weeks, months and years of retention are kept and therefore the cost of straight disk is untenable. However, with data deduplication, which compares…

Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, DRAM, ExaGrid, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, VM
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Adding File Services to Hyperconverged Architectures

Posted on November 14, 2016 by George Crump

Hyperconverged architectures are gaining interest in organizations of all sizes. They collapse the compute, network and storage tiers into a single tier that promises an easier to use and more cost effective solution for virtualized data centers. The problem is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, VM
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Backing up MongoDB and Apache Cassandra

Posted on November 2, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Datos IO is the first product designed specifically to meet the cloud-scale backup and recovery needs of modern, scalable, non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra (DataStax), and cloud-native databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft DocumentDB and others. These…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, NoSQL, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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Meeting Data Security Demands With Object Storage

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Joseph Ortiz

Data is the lifeblood of every organization. An organization’s data comprises important information such as customer and financial records, internal processes, marketing tactics and strategies, details of products and/or services that it produces. All of this contributes to an organization’s…

Tagged with: Data integrity, Data Protection, dr, Encryption, HGST, IoT, Object Storage, RAID, Replication
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How and Why to Protect Against Ransomware

Posted on October 17, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Ransomware is the latest and greatest threat from those wishing to profit from doing harm to data. While it started as a threat to consumer data, it is clearly expanding into a full-on assault against corporate data, which costs companies…