There are more methods to recover data than ever. It used to be that recovery meant loading a tape drive, scanning the whole tape to find the job that had the needed data, extracting that data from the job and…
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The Cloud Storage Consistency Problem
Cloud storage like Amazon S3 is scalable and economical, and it is also highly available. But one thing it is not is consistent. Lack of consistency is the primary reason many organizations struggle with cloud migration. Many production applications need…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale, WAN
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What’s the Role of Object Storage in Backup?
Object storage systems are typically software-based solutions that run on commodity servers, which are clustered to create a single pool of storage. As a result, object storage solutions tend to be very cost-effective from a-price-per-GB perspective. These systems also have…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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Three Steps To Ending The Data Protection Nightmare
Recent surveys indicate that over 50% of organizations feel their data protection processes can’t be counted on for consistent, rapid recovery of data. Instead of trying to band-aid the problem, IT needs to develop a holistic strategy. In this “Steak…
What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
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Optimizing Amazon EBS with S3
Primary storage vendors have been slow to integrate the public cloud into their solutions. Most pretend the public cloud doesn’t exist and even the vendors that do provide some level of integration to use the cloud only as a giant…
Overcoming the Network Problems of High Capacity Flash in All-Flash Systems
Flash media is getting denser. There have been several announcements promising 50TB plus SSDs within the next six months. The distinct advantage for all-flash systems is they will be able to deliver Petabytes of capacity in just a few rack…
How To Solve The Three Biggest Backup Problems; Part One Increasing Backup Frequency
“It’s all about recovery” is a favorite mantra of backup marketing material. The truth is that it is not all about recovery. In fact, it is easy to make a case that recovery is the easy part. The actual backup…
Cloud Backup? Yes, No or Sometimes
Cloud backup has several advantages over traditional on-site backup and one big negative; the data is no longer stored within the familiar confines of the data center. Even if the cloud backup solution provides robust encryption, many organizations have some…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization, VMware, WAN
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Analysis of Actifio’s Results in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery
The definition of backup is always changing. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. When backups started being stored on disk, the tradition of putting backed up data into a container…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IaaS, Object Storage, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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