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…
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Does Networking as a Service Make Sense? – Datto Briefing Note
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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Should I put a Backup Agent in my VM?
Few people would disagree with the statement that the best way to backup virtual machines is some type of agentless method. And yet, years after this practice became common we still find some people putting backup agents in their VM.…
What’s Your Biggest Backup Hardware Challenge?
The euphoria over disk backup appliances seams to be fading. It used to be that IT professionals were so happy to replace or augment tape that they didn’t look very deep into what the disk appliance was actually doing for…
Solving the Distributed Storage Challenge by Centralizing Your Data – Talon FAST Software Briefing Note
Modern organizations continue to face an uphill battle as they struggle to meet the challenges of storing ever-growing amounts of unstructured data while also cost effectively managing their distributed storage environment. Many organizations are now moving data and operations to…
Overcome the Data Protection Dilemma – Vembu Briefing Note
Virtualization through hypervisors like VMware and Hyper-V have simplified the data protection and application recovery processes but they have not made it less expensive. Additionally most of these virtualization-specific data protection solutions are almost too myopic, ignoring physical machines all…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, SaaS, Vembu, Virtualization, VMware
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Endpoint Data Protection with a Difference – Zoolz Briefing Note
All organizations today, regardless of size, have to deal with a myriad of governmental rules and regulations that require the organizations to retain, secure and protect all of their data in specific ways determined by the governmental body requiring the…
Tagged with: Baas, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, eDiscovery, Metadata, NAS, NFS, SAN, SMB, Zoolz
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DR Ready Storage should Complement Backup
A popular trend is to have data protection begin where the data begins – in primary storage. But the questions are: Should protecting your data be the responsibility of your primary storage product, or should there be a separation between…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, dr, E-discovery, Erasure Coding, RAID, Replication, Snapshots, Tintri
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Faster Backup to the Cloud
When using a cloud backup as a server (BaaS) or disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) the perception is that backup performance is about the same between solutions since they all count on the Internet for transfer and they all…
The Role of Snapshots in a Backup System
Snapshots are moving to the forefront of many data centers when it comes to data protection. Therefore, it’s important to have a solid understanding of how they work and what to use them for. It’s also very important to understand…
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