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Storage News for Feb. 14 – Podcast

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Here are some of the latest headlines from Storage Switzerland. Lead Analyst George Crump joins me on the podcast. Click below for links to the blogs on Storage Swiss relating to each story: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance…

Tagged with: Arcserve, Asigra, Catalogic, DH2i, Nexenta, Protection, Virtual Instruments
Posted in Podcast

Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Leveling the Cloud Backup playing field

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Colm Keegan

How can regional Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) more effectively compete with behemoths like Amazon, Google and Microsoft? Cloud backup software manufacturer Asigra is taking a two-pronged approach, which they claim will help level the playing field for these small to…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, Data Protection, disk backup
Posted in Blog

How IT Can Remain Relevant In A Cloud World

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

How will cloud computing alter the role of today’s IT professional? Will IT as we know it disappear altogether or will IT pros remain in high demand with increased cloud adoption? To be sure, cloud computing is fundamentally changing how…

Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, CSP, Efficiency, HotLink, Hybrid, Load DynamiX, SaaS, SLA, Spanning Tree
Posted in Article

Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…

Tagged with: Agentless, Archive, Asigra, Backup, Cloud, NAS, Recovery, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis

Webinar – The Business of Backup – The Impact of Backup Licensing on IT Budgets

Posted on August 20, 2013 by George Crump

Thanks to virtualization and improved abilities in backup software, the data protection process has become easier to implement and operate but unlike other technologies, it has not become less expensive. Whether the licensing strategy is module based or capacity based,…

Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Recovery, Webinar
Posted in Webinar

Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Colm Keegan

It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape…

Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Big data, Data deduplication, Hardware, Storage
Posted in Article