Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in…
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Develop A Service Level Objective Driven Data Protection Strategy
Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.
Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Protection, Provisioning, Reliability, RO, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Backup Basics: What do SLO, RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?
Being in charge of the data protection process is a thankless job. The process you create can run perfectly 99% of the time but everyone will remember the 1 time it fell short, and they will blame you. The task…
How Do I Know My SQL Server Environment is Ready for SSD?
SQL Databases of almost any size should be a top consideration for SSD integration. Because of the granularity of the database structure small components of the database can be moved to SSD, reducing the overall SSD investment. In this article, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, George Crump discusses how to determine which of those componets should be on SSD. This report will show that a surprisingly small amount of SSD can provide a cost effective, more scaleable, higher performing database for the entire environment.
Learn:
Which Storage Statistics Can Help You Determine SQL SSD Readiness
Which component of your SQL environment should be on SSD
The ROI of SSD Investment for SQL Environments
2014 Storage – Scale Up, Scale Out or Converge?
As we start 2014, storage is changing. The familiar dual controller, scale up architecture is potentially being replaced by a new set of architectures. Storage professionals now have to consider storage systems that can scale out or converge themselves with…
Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Clustering, Converge, Converged Architecture, Latency, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Shared Storage, Virtual
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Top Backup Takeaways from 2013
As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that…
What’s The Difference Between Tiering And Caching?
Flash storage continues to be the “go to” option for IT professionals looking to solve performance problems, but these infrastructure designers are struggling with how to best implement flash. Automated tiering and caching are becoming common answers to that question.…
Tagged with: Caching, Flash, Hard disk, MLC, SLC, Software Defined Storage, Tiering, Write-back, Write-through
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How Tape Can Fix The Unstructured Backup Problem
The fastest growing data set in just about every organization today, and typically the largest, is unstructured data. This is data that’s outside of a database; essentially file data, stored on file servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. The…
Top 5 Tape Takeaways for 2014
Most IT professionals, at least those over thirty, were probably introduced to tape as part of the backup system. For years tape drives and libraries have been the primary repositories for backup data, most recently with the LTO (Linear Tape…
Designing Enterprise-class Multi-Tenant Storage
Cloud Providers and enterprises must be able to guarantee performance to specific applications or groups of applications. They also need ways to distribute some of their storage management workload directly to the users or ‘interests’ they support. In the cloud…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Providers, DRAM, Enterprise, GUI, LUN, Multi-Tenant, RAID, Zadara
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