Verifying that you’re ready for a disaster is difficult but not impossible. The three elements of your infrastructure that must be present for a successful recovery from a disaster are compute, network, and storage. Let’s take a look at how…
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Successful Disaster Recovery? – Trust but Verify
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Replication, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Understanding Object Storage Consumption Models
Object storage is quickly becoming the standard for storing large amounts of unstructured data. One of the most appealing aspects of object storage is its flexibility that spans a variety of storage infrastructure configurations and storage locations. This flexibility is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, EMC, Encryption, Hybrid, Metadata, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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What is the Impact of Optimizing a Windows File Server
Optimizing a Windows file server optimizes a number of related processes and systems. In a previous blog we discussed what it’s like to optimize a file server, which involves automatically identifying, moving, and referencing inactive files. Once the initial optimization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Encryption, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware
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How To Survive 2017’s Flash Drought
“IT we have a problem, we are out of flash.” On several occasions flash NAND manufacturers are telling Storage Switzerland they are nearly sold-out of flash for the rest of the year. A lack of supply means flash storage prices…
How Does DRaaS Work? A Step by Step Description
Disaster Recovery As a Service (DRaaS) is an increasingly popular method for businesses of all sizes to address shortcomings in their disaster recovery plan. By leveraging a combination of cloud backup and virtualization, providers are able to provide organizations with…
How to Optimize Windows File Servers
So many people create files they use once and never use again. They create a spreadsheet for this afternoon’s meeting to support their belief that the department needs more widgets. Once they get approval for the widgets, they don’t need…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Migration, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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What is Data Management Sprawl?
Data Management is the art of intelligently moving data to the tier of storage that best balances the performance requirements with the cost of storing it and stage of its life cycle. In a perfect world, organizations would put all…
Why you Should Back Up Hyper-V to the Cloud
If data in your Hyper-V system is worth backing up, it’s worth copying and storing off-site. Too many things can go wrong to a data center that can damage both the servers and backups – if those backups are stored…
The Importance of Protecting Cloud Hosted Applications
Anyone who thinks you don’t need to back up cloud applications such as salesforce, Office 365 and Google Apps clearly has some thinking to do. There is no such thing as the cloud. There is only someone else’s data center.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Disk, dr, Ransomware, Replication, Tape
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Why Should You Optimize File Servers?
Windows file servers remain one of the most popular ways for an organization to store and share data between employees. One of the reasons for this popularity is when a server reaches capacity or starts to suffer performance problems it’s…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Sprawl, Windows
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