The case for archiving is beyond compelling. Most organizations don’t access data once it is older than 90 days. In most cases, inactive data can consume 85% or more of the organization’s primary storage capacity. Moving inactive data to secondary…
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Eliminating Stub Files for a Better Archive
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Understanding the 5 Most Common Oversights in a DRaaS Strategy
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is potentially one of the best use cases for cloud resources. DR sites owned by the organization are expensive to set up and maintain as well as challenging to get to when a disaster…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Fifteen Minute Friday: Designing Cloud Storage for the Data Center, the Edge, and the Cloud
When most vendors talk about solving an organization’s storage problems, they typically are talking about solving their challenges in one of three categories: the data center, the edge or the cloud. The reality is that even within these three categories,…
Is the Cost of Switching Backup Solutions Worth the Cloud Gains?
Organizations look to change data protection software for a variety of reasons. Two of the most popular involve the cloud; cloud backup storage and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). There are many problems though with switching software and the…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Protection Service Levels – Sometimes OK is OK
In my last blog “The Problem with Gold-Only Data Protection Service Levels” we looked at how to design a gold service level for data protection and what the pros and cons of that approach are. In this entry, we look…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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Overcoming the Latency Hurdle – Hybrid Cloud Storage Workarounds
When organizations attempt to create a hybrid cloud storage architecture to manage costs better and ease on-premises storage requirements they face a significant hurdle, dealing with the latency between on-premises storage and cloud-based storage. The transfer of files between these…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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The Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem
Public Cloud Storage solves many of the challenges facing IT planners as they try to address the rampant growth of data within their data centers. Storing this ever growing quantity of data is causing problems for both primary and secondary…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Object Storage
Object Storage is a storage technology that IT planners should include in their plans for 2019. The headline feature of object storage is incredibly low-cost storage that scales to meet almost any capacity demand. It’s true that object storage is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, EFSS, Hot2019, IoT, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality
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SlideShare: 2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?
Join Storage Switzerland, Caringo, Cloudian and Scality, for a roundtable discussion on Object Storage. Learn what you need to know to develop a strategy for object storage. Our panel of experts discuss what object storage is, what is better/different about…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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Backup has Fallen – How Cyber Threats are Compromising Your Backup System
Most IT professionals consider the backup process the last line of defense in their efforts to protect the organization from cyberattacks like malware, ransomware, phishing, data extraction, and internal rogue employees. The problem is bad actors are breaching this last…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, HotLink, Malware, Metadata, Ransomware
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