A real disaster is the ultimate test of potentially years worth of planning. Disasters are unnerving because the IT professionals executing the recovery processes have the eyes of the entire organization and its customers on them. IT, which normally operates…
The appeal of cloud storage is increasingly hard for businesses to resist. Major providers continue to drive down costs and cloud gateway providers are making it easier and easier to get your data to the cloud. The problem is most…
Data protection is made of three components; the software that identifies and copies the data needing protection, the hardware that will store the protected copy and the IT professionals that drive the process. When two of these components are combined,…
The term Active Archive is thrown around all the time by IT vendors, but what is it really, other than an attempt to make something as old as data management sound cool again? An Active Archive is an archive where…
A popular trend is to have data protection begin where the data begins – in primary storage. But the questions are: Should protecting your data be the responsibility of your primary storage product, or should there be a separation between…
Any discussion on archiving data makes sense, on paper. Most data centers indicate that well over 85 percent of their data has not been used in 90 days or more. The potential capital savings by moving this near-active and old…
Data is growing, especially file data. This statement should come as no surprise to any IT professional. The response to that growth is typically to keep adding more and more storage capacity. The problem is that most of these additions…
All VMs are not created equal. Two VMs running on equivalent hardware could have different performance based on the hypervisor they’re using. And obviously two VMs using the same hypervisor could have different performance based on the underlying hardware. Could…
When network attached storage (NAS) first came to market its initial use case was to store user data, typically found in file server home directories. All users wanted to be able to do is store and share data between a…
Backup is the process of making copies of an organization’s data so in the event that data was corrupted, erased or becomes unavailable for any reason, IT can use the copies to restore it. Backup should have the primary goal…
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