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Why DR Orchestration is a Must Have

Posted on September 3, 2019 by George Crump

Disasters rarely strike at a convenient time, like when recovery polices are all up to date, and when there are plenty of IT staff on hand to deal with any issues that may come up. In most cases, the opposite…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Backup Retention vs. Data Retention

Posted on August 14, 2019 by George Crump

A recent blog “Healthcare overspends on long term backup retention” by Veeam’s Jonathan Butz discussed how healthcare organizations are creating overly complex and expensive backup infrastructure because they are considering backup as part of their records retention policy. Butz is…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid Flash, Object Store, Retention, Veeam, Virtual machine
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Why Aren’t You Tiering Backup Data to the Cloud?

Posted on August 7, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations tend to treat all backup data the same. Generally, IT stores backup data on a relatively low performing, high capacity disk backup system. The problem is that this type of device doesn’t fit the restore requests that most IT…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid Flash, Object Store, Veeam, Virtual machine
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Surviving the Multiple Data Protection App Reality

Posted on July 26, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations have more than one backup application, in fact most have three to four and are finding the number of backup applications they need to protect the organizations assets is increasing. At the same time industry and governmental requirements…

Tagged with: Backup, Bocada Software, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Hybrid, SLA, VM
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Protecting the Multi-Cloud Data Center Without Losing Your Mind

Posted on July 23, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-cloud isn’t a future architecture, it is a reality right now. Organizations have on-premises clouds (virtualized infrastructures) and are hosting applications in multiple cloud providers. The problem is the multi-cloud situation these organizations find themselves in is ad-hoc, not part…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, HYCU, Migration, Replication, SQL, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 12, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, application owner and users all have much higher expectations of IT than ever before. They expect IT to recover real-time data instantaneously and recall aged data very quickly. These expectations mean that backup architectures are getting stretched at both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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Is it Time for All-Flash Backups?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Businesses today are all about “agile.” For storage professionals, this means delivering ultra-low latency alongside high throughput and high input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) to accelerate mission-critical application performance as much as possible. All-flash storage arrays have solidified their…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HDD, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, SSD, Veeam
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Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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On Demand Webinar: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 1, 2019 by George Crump

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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Lightboard Video: Improve Efficiency by Recovering from Storage Snapshots

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Businesses are counting on IT for competitive differentiation. The problem is that IT teams are bogged down with day-to-day tasks, especially when it comes to data protection. Watch this Lightboard Video to learn how to integrating data protection into production…