The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…
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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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All-Flash Should Internally Tier
In a recent webinar “How to Create A Two-Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage”, Storage Switzerland discussed the concept of a two-tier data center. The goal is to reduce the overall number of storage systems in the data center…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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High-Performance Cloud Integrated Object Storage
Some storage architects have been looking at object storage as the unstructured data heir apparent to legacy network attached storage (NAS). Object storage is cost-effective, scales well and has rich capabilities for data retention and perseveration, but it is incompatible…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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Five Backup Priorities for 2018
Study after study shows that business leaders are not confident in their ability to meet the organization’s recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO). This lack of confidence leads IT professionals to open to embracing every new data protection solution…
How to Provide Rapid Recovery for Mission-Critical Applications
When mission-critical applications go down, bad things happen. Organizations lose revenue, users and customers are dissatisfied. IT loses its reputation and sometimes even their jobs. There is no arguing that these applications need to be protected regularly and recovered quickly.…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Understanding Gartner’s Object Storage Quadrant
Analyst firm Gartner released its latest version of its Magic Quadrant for object storage that attempts to rank and organize the distributed file system and object storage system market. Instead, it really creates more questions and confusion instead of providing…
IT Needs A Different Reason To Buy Tape
With the release of LTO-8 Tape media and hardware vendors are once again boasting about how affordable it is to store data on tape. With a compressed capacity of 30TB per tape, they are right in doing so. At Storage…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, LTO, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Scale, Tape
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How to Consolidate the Four P’s of Data
The Four P’s of data are performance, protection, preservation and price. IT needs to ensure that each data set receives the right amount of the first three Ps and the right cost for the last one. The problem is the…
Amazon RE:Invent is for Storage Professionals
Amazon RE:Invent is right around the corner, and Storage Switzerland will be there for the first time shooting our famous ChalkTalk Videos and attending various analyst meetings and vendor briefings. Amazon AWS’ various storage offerings deserve serious consideration for storage…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Archive, Avere, AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB, SwiftStack
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How Important is Search to Scale-Out NAS?
Finding a file you wrote on your laptop’s hard drive can be difficult. If a file you collaborated on is stored on your department’s file server, it can be even more difficult to find. You just need to remember the…
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