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Has All-Flash Really Reached Price Parity on NAS?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Capacity, Disk, file sync and share, Flash, NAS, Nexsan, Replication, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video: Introducing Enterprise Data As A Service
As IT organizations attempt to modernize, they continue to look for ways to offer more of their capabilities as a service. Good examples of this are software as a service and infrastructure as a service. The problem is one of…
Enterprise Backup vs Point Backup
For two decades IT has had two choices when selecting a data protection solution. They can choose a holistic solution that covers the majority of the applications, operating systems and data protection goals or they can select a point data…
Successful Disaster Recovery? – Trust but Verify
Verifying that you’re ready for a disaster is difficult but not impossible. The three elements of your infrastructure that must be present for a successful recovery from a disaster are compute, network, and storage. Let’s take a look at how…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Replication, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Four Reasons Why Your Backup Hardware Will Break by 2020
While backup software vendors continue to innovate, hardware vendors have been resting on their deduplication laurels. In the meantime, the amount of data that organizations store continues to grow at an alarming pace and the backup and recovery expectations of…
What is the Impact of Optimizing a Windows File Server
Optimizing a Windows file server optimizes a number of related processes and systems. In a previous blog we discussed what it’s like to optimize a file server, which involves automatically identifying, moving, and referencing inactive files. Once the initial optimization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Encryption, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware
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How Does DRaaS Work? A Step by Step Description
Disaster Recovery As a Service (DRaaS) is an increasingly popular method for businesses of all sizes to address shortcomings in their disaster recovery plan. By leveraging a combination of cloud backup and virtualization, providers are able to provide organizations with…
How to Optimize Windows File Servers
So many people create files they use once and never use again. They create a spreadsheet for this afternoon’s meeting to support their belief that the department needs more widgets. Once they get approval for the widgets, they don’t need…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Migration, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Is Your Storage Ready for Disaster?
The recovery expectations of users and organizations is changing and their tolerance for downtime is lower than ever. IT professionals can no longer rely on the traditional backup and recovery process to meet these new requirements. Primary storage needs to…
Why you Should Back Up Hyper-V to the Cloud
If data in your Hyper-V system is worth backing up, it’s worth copying and storing off-site. Too many things can go wrong to a data center that can damage both the servers and backups – if those backups are stored…
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