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DR Ready Storage Must be Space Efficient
One of the biggest criticisms of using primary storage for DR is cost. Primary storage can be expensive, and using it in your DR plan essentially doubles your storage requirement. Therefore, it is essential that DR Ready storage use as…
HPE Buys Nimble – What Were They Thinking?
Yesterday HPE announced it is buying Nimble Storage for a little over 1 billion dollars. That news took almost everyone off-guard and also brought the immediate, “HPE is crazy”, reaction. Instead of writing something up right away, I needed to…
Are Snapshots and Replication Enough for VMware DR?
Most of the environment in a majority of data centers is now virtualized, often using VMware as the primary hypervisor. These organizations have also virtualized mission critical applications which need to be recovered quickly in the event of a disaster.…
Are Customers DRaaS Worries Justified?
The result of a survey about disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) during a recent webinar was very illuminating. In my opinion, it suggests most people responding to the survey had not yet actually tried such a service. First, let…
Are People Abandoning Backup for DR?
More and more customers are demanding storage that integrates data protection. This was incredibly evident in a recent poll during one of our live webinars. Backup is moving to the front of the bus! During our recent webinar, “Is Your…
Importance of Maintaining Proper Security and Control of Data in DRaaS Environments
As my colleague George Crump discussed in his article on disaster recovery as a service, “Introducing DRaaS 2.0”, there are a number of compelling advantages in using DRaaS solutions. However, regardless of the cost savings and other advantages when organizations…
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What is Your Recovery Performance Expectation?
Storage Switzerland works with IT professionals to design data protection and disaster recovery plans. Those conversations always start with a discussion about service level objectives (SLO). Each application or data set should have an SLO, that comes from several very…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Flash, Infrascale, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO
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The VMware File Services Problem
One of the challenges facing virtualized environments, especially hyperconverged ones is how to provide file services to their users because after virtualization users still need to share data. One method is to select a storage system for the virtual infrastructure…
The Value of NAS Integrated Backup in a Virtualized Environment
Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers are widely used for storing virtual machine backups. What’s been lacking is a method to integrate the two workload types that many consider mutually exclusive: backup software and backup storage. The Advantage of On-Appliance Backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Nakivo, NAS, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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