There are too many traditional backup products trying to tackle a nontraditional backup problem. As a result, they continue to use some of the old world backup techniques in the very new world of IT. These techniques waste storage space,…
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Why do Hyper-V Backups Waste Space?
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Hyper-V, Incremental backup, Nakivo, Synthetic Backup, Tape, VM
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ChalkTalk Video: How To Overcome the All-Flash Let Down
All-flash arrays are the performance sledgehammer, often obliterating the storage performance problem organizations hoped to resolve when buying them. The challenge is as the organization adds additional workloads to the array, its low latency exposes other bottlenecks in the environment…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, HPE, Latency, Recovery, Replication, Snapshot
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Can You Eliminate Downtime? – New White Paper
Achieving a zero or near-zero recovery point and recovery time objective requires planning. From a data perspective, IT needs to position the data in a ready state on the recovery system. The positioning or copying of data needs to happen either as,…
Podcast: Copy Data Management vs. DR Ready Storage
There are a lot of options available to IT professionals looking to improve their ability to recover from a disaster. One is copy data management, very popular in the press. The other is DR Ready Primary Storage, something that Storage…
Why Should You Not Use Your Backup as an Archive?
All of us at storage Switzerland preach that backup and archive are two different practices, and have been for probably more than 20 years. But to see the results of a survey during one of our recent webinars, you would…
How to Backup a cPanel Website
cPanel is a web based hosting control panel used by many hosting providers. The program gives their customers a graphical interface from which they can control their portion of the Linux server. If you haven’t configured the backup of your…
Can Your Server Survive a Fire or Flood? – ioSafe Briefing Note
My dad always said, “The best fight is one you don’t have.” In the same way, the best restore is one you never have to do. We all believe that, and we do our best to avoid every restore we…
Can DRaaS Protect you from Ransomware?
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors suggest their offerings can cure a number of ails. They offer the power and recoverability of a hot site without the traditional costs that a hot site present. They offer a way to…
Does Recovery and Performance Have to be a Compromise?
The ability to quickly resume operations after a severe disaster is critical for organizations of all sizes. Fortunately, disasters don’t occur every day, in fact they are actually pretty rare. It is their severity that makes organizations plan for them.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Replication, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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How Do You Protect An All-Flash Array?
Technically, an organization can protect a new all-flash array the same way it protects its current hard drive based array – use backup software to access the hypervisor, have it trigger a snapshot and then backup all the blocks that…
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