Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is changing the way data center administrators think about disaster recovery. A DR site and equipment no longer need to be bought in advance. DRaaS instead enables DR to be on-demand. The concept is…
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What is a Data Fabric?
When most IT professionals hear the phrase “storage is growing”, they typically roll their eyes and assume the vendor is talking about the unprecedented growth we’ve seen in data capacity requirements over the last decade or so. But storage is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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What Backup Software Should I Use? – is the wrong question
The question of what backup software application should an organization use comes up all the time on the online forums I visit on LinkedIn and Spiceworks. The answer to that question typically come from vendors who, of course, say “Use…
It’s Important to get Hyper-V Backups Right
It’s very easy to find yourself far down the path of virtualization and forget something so trivial as backup. This is not a problem new to virtualization, as backup has often been on the sidelines in many people’s eyes. But…
DR Ready Storage should be a Scalpel or a Saw?
A real disaster is the ultimate test of potentially years worth of planning. Disasters are unnerving because the IT professionals executing the recovery processes have the eyes of the entire organization and its customers on them. IT, which normally operates…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, dr, E-discovery, LUN, Replication, Snapshots, Tintri, VM
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The Importance of Application Aware Snapshots
An application aware snapshot is one that is taken with the knowledge of an application that is storing its data on the volume. If you need a primer on snapshots, please see our previous blog on the subject. The taking…
How Fast can you Recover in the Cloud?
Some say it’s possible to recover servers into the cloud so quickly – and perform in the cloud so well – no one will even notice that a recovery happened. But one should definitely not assume this will be the…
The Challenges Facing Docker on Windows – WinDocks Briefing Note
Until containers support persistent storage that can be easily backed-up, their use will be limited to test and development. This is not to say that containers can’t bring significant value to the test and development world. It’s just that they…
Does Networking as a Service Make Sense? – Datto Briefing Note
The “as a service” moniker is appearing everywhere. Everything from storage to compute to networking is now being offered as a service. More and more companies are opting to have service providers provide their core infrastructure services – as a…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Datto, dr, File Sync, Hybrid, MSP, Virtualization
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StorageShort: Will Machine Data Kill Backup?
One of the hardest things to protect is a server with millions of files on it. In the early days of my career, we specifically asked customers if they had such a server so we could develop special procedures to…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Hypervisor, IoT, Object Storage, Replication
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