The backup architecture will likely store 5 to 10 times the amount of data that the primary storage system holds. Additionally, organizations are looking to use backup data for far more than just an insurance copy of data. They want…
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Why Scale-Up Architecture Breaks Backup
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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The Hub Problem with Distributed Backup
Protecting data at remote offices and distributed data centers is challenging to say the least. Typically, organizations try to implement backup locally by installing a backup server and some disk or tape. IT then tries to manage the process remotely…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM
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Hyperconvergence is NOT Backup
One of the riskiest claims a vendor ever makes is “we’ve eliminated the need for backup” and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors make this claim frequently. Good data resiliency is not good backup, and in fact, some of the work that…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots
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Meeting the Five Unstructured Data Backup Requirements
In the last blog, we laid out the five requirements for unstructured data protection; fine-grained backups, frequent and rapid backups; cloud support, data classification, and an archiving future. Aparavi is one of the first data protection companies specifically focused on…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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How to Get On-Premises NAS Performance with Cloud Storage
Unstructured data is a big problem for IT professionals. They have to wrestle with serving, storing, protecting and retaining all the information within that unstructured data set. Legacy NAS solutions simply can’t keep up. Cloud storage seems like an ideal…
The Requirements for Modern Unstructured Data Protection
Unstructured data presents two challenges that organizations need to deal with; the sheer volume of data and the quantity of files in the data sets. Storing this data is a problem in and of itself, but protecting it is an…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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Why Do Point Products Break Backup
One of the most alarming trends in data protection is the number of different solutions data centers are deploying and managing so they can keep up with the organization’s recovery expectations and budget realities. The demands for rapid recovery are…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Snapshot, Sprawl, TRO
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Is Your All-Flash Array Leaking?
An all-flash array is supposed to be the pinnacle of storage performance but these systems have a secret; they are leaking performance. Proof of this is simple, take the raw IOPS of the drives inside the typical all-flash array and…
Tagged with: HDD, NVMe, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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Why Virtualization STILL Breaks Backup
With the broad adoption of server virtualization by data centers, it became apparent that protection of the new environment was very inadequate. Organizations faced in-guest protection or very fragile off-host architectures. As adoption continued, VMware and others made significant strides…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Hypervisor, Migration, Snapshots, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Why Can’t SDS Be More Like VMware?
VMware fundamentally changed server deployment. Prior to VMware the best practice was “one-server, one-app” which, as Intel processors continued to increase in power, led to a massive waste of compute resources. VMware allowed applications to be safely stacked on those…
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