“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…
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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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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
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…
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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