Where and how a data management solution engages with data affects how much value the solution can deliver. The problem is that most data management solutions are passive; they wait until data reaches a certain state prior to taking action.…
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Is SDS Ready for You? – DataCore Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has not taken the data center by storm like many experts predicted. Sales of turnkey hardware and software solutions still dominate the storage purchases for most data centers. The problem is that most SDS solutions have…
Protecting From Ransomware without a Data Protection Overhaul
Ransomware is at the top of every IT professional’s project list, but the problem is most solutions to the problem require the replacement of the current data protection product. What if the current data protection solution is servicing the organization…
iXsystems’ New TrueNAS X10 and FreeNAS v11.0 Briefing Note
The software defined data center does not mean data centers are free from vendor lock-in. It just means vendors moved the lock from hardware to software. While the software may (not always) provide the organization the ability to mix and…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Hyperconverged, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, SDS, SMB, Snapshot, VM
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Why Not Have your Backup System Provide CDM? – Unitrends Briefing Note
If the updates coming out of the various backup software companies are any indication, copy data management (CDM) and instant recovery are mainstream features. In addition, some backup software products are finally starting to recognize the importance of creating and…
What’s the Best Way to Store Unstructured Data? – Nodeum Briefing Note
The data storage world changes every day as do the demands of your organization. That means the best place to store your data today might not be the best place to store your data tomorrow. There are high performance options,…
How to Beat Your RPO and RTO without Recovery – Quest Briefing Note
Meeting strict RPOs and RTOs requires that data protection solutions provide IT administrators better monitoring and analytics, in addition to more frequent copies. Backup, snapshot and replication are reactive solutions, that IT rightly counts on to make sure they can…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Quest, Replication, ROI, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Virtualization
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How Do I Protect Applications Running in Multiple Clouds? – Datos IO Briefing Note
It is normal for many environments to run applications in the cloud. For some environments, the new normal is running applications in multiple clouds, as well as running applications in their own data center or private cloud. If the new…
Is There a Better Way to Backup Unstructured Data? – Igneous Briefing Note
It’s no secret that unstructured data is consuming data center tiles across the world. Structured data may have been king at one point, but the vast amount of storage in today’s data centers is being consumed by unstructured data. This…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Igneous, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, Unstructured data
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Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note
The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Encryption, FC, ISCSI, NFS, Replication, S3, SMB, Virtual, VTL
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