Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is a long and arduous process. The process of creating and even updating a disaster recovery plan is the primary reason that most plans, if they exist, are woefully out of date. In the event of…
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What is a Recovery Capabilities Assessment?
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, DRP, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Making Cloud Backup Work for Enterprises
Cloud backup is an ideal complement to an enterprise’s existing backup strategy. The problem is most cloud backup solutions seek to replace the solution already in place. Enterprises don’t want to throw away years of investment in training and processes…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Flash to Flash to Cloud – Solving the Data Protection Problem
The primary objective of a data protection strategy is to protect data frequently and consistently. The ever growing size of data, the diversity of systems that store that data and the high expectations of the creators and consumers of that…
Cloud Backup: Integrate or Rip and Replace?
An ideal use case for the cloud is for backup. It automatically creates an offsite copy; most cloud providers automatically replicate that backup to another cloud region, and now some providers offer disaster recovery services. One of the upfront challenges…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Three Steps to Architecting Storage for Commercial HPC
The storage architecture requirements for Commercial HPC are different from those for traditional enterprise storage architecture. They are also different from the traditional HPC requirements. Most enterprise IT professionals try to either extend their current storage architectures, which are supporting…
Why Data Movement Breaks Data Management and How to Fix It
The primary goal of a data management strategy is to reduce storage costs. Achieving that goal requires that at some point data will have to move from primary storage to a less expensive secondary storage. The movement of data between…
Commercial HPC vs. Enterprise Storage
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is no longer a workload for academia, now organizations of all types and sizes have HPC like workloads that require scalable, sequential access to vast amounts of unstructured data. These initiatives need rapid access and need to…
How to Design Storage for Commercial HPC
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and commercial data centers used to be two distinctly separate entities, but now businesses of all types are conducting HPC-like operations. These organizations have large amounts of unstructured data that they need rapid sequential access to for…
The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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What is Tape as a Service?
Tape should be a critical component of every data center. As a medium, it is cost effective and easy to transport. It also provides diversity as an offline alternative media choice to hard disk based technology. The problem is that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Iron Mountain, Malware, Migration, Recovery, Tape, Tape as a Service
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