Google surprised a lot of people with its very strong offering aimed directly at Amazon S3. It is clear the product managers offering the Google cloud storage product were very familiar with complaints people have about Amazon S3 and are…
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Don’t Delete Data from Your Archive
In a recent blog my colleague W. Curtis Preston used the movie “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” as an excellent example of why organizations should take great care in how they manage data archives. In that blog he suggests,…
What is Backup?
Defining backup is both simple and complex. Google says a backup is “the procedure for making extra copies of data in case the original is lost or damaged.” This definition describes the action (extra copies) and the purpose (in case…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Erasure Coding, RAID, Replication, Snapshots
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Archive Lessons from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
SPOILER ALERT!!! If you have not seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and don’t want me to ruin the most crucial part of the climax, and you are craving a blog on archiving then go read this blog. You’ve…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Data Retention, Electronic Discovery, Encryption, Storage
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How do Object Storage Systems Protect the Data they Store?
The value of object storage is that it can be the storage backend to a variety of unstructured data use cases, ranging from primary file stores, to unstructured data archives to a backup target for the protection of transactional primary…
Tagged with: Archive, Avere, Backup, Latency, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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The Cloud just got cheaper – again
A few weeks ago we did a webinar about whether it makes sense to use the cloud to store backups. Every time somebody at Storage Switzerland says something positive about storing things in the cloud, we can always count on…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Disk, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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Breaking the Archive Dead End – Archive360 Briefing Note
One of the challenges with any type of email or unstructured data archive is platform migration. Most archive solutions have been set up as a data dead-end, meaning data checks in but it never leaves. The problem is of course…
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Cloud, Migration, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Amazon re:Invent: Cohesity Briefing – Modernizing Secondary Storage
While the industry places a lot of attention on all-flash arrays, for the most part these systems only service a small portion of data center capacity – the most active data. Secondary storage stores, or at least should store, the…
Adding File Services to Hyperconverged Architectures
Hyperconverged architectures are gaining interest in organizations of all sizes. They collapse the compute, network and storage tiers into a single tier that promises an easier to use and more cost effective solution for virtualized data centers. The problem is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, VM
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Webinar: Other People’s Storage – What Can You Really Store in the Cloud?
The cloud is not a magical place where unicorns and leprechauns live. And it is not a singular. The cloud is a number of well run data centers most organizations can leverage in some form or fashion. One of the…
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