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Lightboard Video: How to Lower the Cost of Backup Infrastructure

Posted on January 16, 2020 by George Crump

The cost to store backups on-premises is already a significant expense for data centers to endure and the rapid growth in unstructured data is pushing budgets to the breaking point. Cloud Storage, because of its low cost and infinite scalability,…

Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
Posted in Video

Take “Create DR Plan” OFF of Your 2020 Project Goals

Posted on December 18, 2019 by George Crump

If disaster strikes, the purpose of a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is to guide the available IT personnel through the process of recovering the data center, either at an alternate site owned by the company or a facility owned by…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, DRP, iland, Replication, RTO, VMware
Posted in Blog

Amazon EC2 Workloads Need Availability and Backup

Posted on December 12, 2019 by George Crump

There is a difference between availability and backup. Providing a workload with high availability means that if a component of the infrastructure fails, adequate measures are in place to ensure that the use of the workload continues with little or…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Replication, Retention, Snaphots, Veeam
Posted in Briefing Note

Purpose-Built Backup is Not Just About Look and Feel

Posted on December 4, 2019 by George Crump

Purpose-built backup is backup software designed to protect a specific application, environment, or data set. An example of a purpose-built backup solution is HYCU Software’s Backup and Recovery, which initially focused on protecting Nutanix Acropolis, expanded to cover VMware ESX,…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, HYCU, Nutanix, Purpose Built, Recovery
Posted in Blog

Purpose-Built versus Consolidated Backup

Posted on December 3, 2019 by George Crump

The number of data protection applications designed to back up a specific application or environment is increasing dramatically. These purpose-built backup applications have an almost unfair advantage over legacy solutions and customers seem more than willing to deal with the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Purpose Built, SQL
Posted in Blog

New White Paper: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Data Protection

Posted on November 25, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are already multi-cloud. They almost always have an on-premises cloud that leverages virtualization like VMware or Nutanix AHV. They also typically have some cloud-native applications or have the desire to migrate some applications to the cloud. Data protection continues…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in White Paper

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing? Beware of Backup Software Claiming to provide Cloud Data Management

Posted on November 22, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are already multi-cloud. They often have a cloud-like infrastructure on-premises like VMware or Nutanix. They may also have cloud-native applications based on SQL, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL. Even if the organization doesn’t have a cloud-native application, they may want…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in Webinar

Does Cloud-Native Mean Cloud Protected?

Posted on November 15, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they sometimes assume that data protection is built-in to the service. However, what cloud service providers offer is high availability and durability, not backup. But organizations, whether their applications are in the cloud…

Tagged with: Archive, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Privacy, Deduplication, HYCU, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshots, SQL
Posted in Briefing Note

New eBook: The Value of DR Orchestration

Posted on November 12, 2019 by George Crump

Given the pace of the modern data center, creating a disaster recovery (DR) plan is a significant challenge. Keeping that plan up to date after it’s created is almost impossible because of how quickly the data center changes. If a…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, Veeam, VM
Posted in Blog

Learn How To Solve Your DR Nightmare in Less Than 30 Minutes!

Posted on November 7, 2019 by George Crump

What is your disaster recovery (DR) plan? Most organizations today do not have a formalized process. When disaster strikes, IT scrambles, hoping to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat. A DR plan prioritizes recovery efforts so that personnel can…