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SlideShare: 2018 Disaster Recovery Checklist – 5 Key Areas to Improve

Posted on March 15, 2018 by George Crump

Is your organization ready for any disaster 2018 may throw at it? Organizations not only face new threats they also encounter decreased tolerance for downtime from users. The good news is there are plenty of new solutions that claim to…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, Recovery, Unitrends, Unstructured data, VM
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SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on March 13, 2018 by George Crump

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge

Posted on March 9, 2018 by George Crump

The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Can Cloud Backup Reduce Backup Storage Costs?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by George Crump

One of the most expensive aspects of data protection is the cost of the storage that holds all of the copies of data. Backup storage capacity can be 10X or more the capacity of primary storage. Backup storage has a…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, TCO, Virtualization, VMware
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Overcoming Backup Appliance Conventional Wisdom – ExaGrid Briefing Note

Posted on March 7, 2018 by George Crump

There are two key assumptions when it comes to purpose-built backup appliances. First, they must have inline deduplication and second, they will all be replaced by backup software solutions as they add deduplication functionality to their software and start selling…

Tagged with: Backup, CIFS, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy
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Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on February 27, 2018 by George Crump

Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Disaster Recovery Planning – How to Get from Good To Great

Posted on February 27, 2018 by George Crump

A “great” DR plan is one that addresses one of the biggest concerns that organizations have over the disaster recovery process. “Will it work?” Getting a copy of data to the cloud is the beginning of a great DR plan…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Replication, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Replication, RTO, Virtualization
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High Availability vs. Instant Recovery

Posted on February 26, 2018 by George Crump

All applications in a data center are critical to some degree, and while there are a few applications that are mission-critical, most applications can be down for at least a few minutes without seriously impacting the organization. The problem is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, HA, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, RPO, RTO, VM
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Disaster Recovery Planning Getting From Bad to Good

Posted on February 26, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery, at its most basic, is making a copy of data and securing that copy off-site. Unfortunately, it is details like how long can the organization afford to be without the application and how much data can the organization…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Replication, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Replication, RTO, Virtualization
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A Real-World Disaster Recovery Plan – Step 1 – DR Gap Analysis

Posted on February 23, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) doesn’t need to be the lengthy complicated ordeal many make it out to be. In fact, DRP needs to become a more nimble process that is completed quickly, easily updated and frequently tested. The first step…