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Meet The CEO of ExaGrid

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

In a very crowded data backup market, ExaGrid has stood the test of time and is one of the premier backup storage solutions on the market. Unlike many of its competitors, ExaGrid’s appliances can work with over 25 backup applications,…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Hyperconverged, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy, Retention
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Data Management as a Service – Igneous Briefing Note

Posted on September 25, 2019 by George Crump

Data management is a project that many IT professionals and application owners feel they are too busy or don’t have enough expertise to undertake. Most data management tasks are big projects that take a lot of planning and continuous care…

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

Solving DR’s Two Biggest Failures – Documentation and Testing with Orchestration

Posted on September 24, 2019 by George Crump

During a disaster, there is a lot that can go wrong, and IT needs to expect the unexpected. In most cases though, it is not the unexpected that causes a disaster recovery (DR) effort to fail. The primary reasons that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Automating Hybrid Cloud

Posted on September 23, 2019 by George Crump

Creating a hybrid cloud is much harder than organizations expect. Cloud infrastructures run different hypervisors than on-premises, which means it’s necessary to transform the workloads before they can run in the cloud, and then transform them back if the organization…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cohesity, Container, Dev/Test, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication
Posted in Briefing Note

Protecting the Other Door – Application Vulnerabilities

Posted on September 19, 2019 by George Crump

Ransomware gets a lot of attention from IT professionals and data protection vendors alike. Ransomware however, is only one door that bad actors can use to compromise the data center. Another door is application or operating system vulnerability. While several…

Tagged with: Backup, Cohesity, Cyber Attack, Encryption, Machine Learning, ML, Ransomware, Recovery
Posted in Briefing Note

MSP Agent or Provider – What Do Customers Want?

Posted on September 17, 2019 by George Crump

In the Lightboard Video below, Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President at Asigra, and I discuss the business of being a managed service provider (MSP). In the video, we discuss how MSPs can build value into their businesses by investing in…

Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Compliance, GDPR, MSP, Recovery, SaaS
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SlideShare: Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 13, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Webinar

How DR Orchestration Can Improve Success while Lowering Costs

Posted on September 11, 2019 by George Crump

To the organization, all applications are essential, but not all apps are critical. There is a pecking order in terms of what applications need to be back online first. Recovery prioritization is especially crucial during a full-scale disaster where the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Lightboard Video: MSPs Need to Build Value

Posted on September 10, 2019 by George Crump

Managed Service Providers (MSP) are survivors of the reseller purge seen in the early 2000s, or their founders are trying to be careful to avoid the mistakes made in that era. These organizations prevent the sale of one-time solutions and…