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The Efficiency Challenges facing Deduplication Appliances
Disk is the initial and in many cases the only backup storage device most data centers use today. Once that backup is completed the data is then replicated to another disk backup appliance or to the cloud. The success of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Object Storage, Replication
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ChalkTalk Video: How to Backup Cassandra and MongoDB
Data center backup simply wasn’t built for cloud applications like Cassandra and MongoDB. That was Shalabh Goyal’s main point when I interviewed him last week as the Director of Products for Datos IO, and I couldn’t help but agree with…
Backup isn’t good enough anymore
Backup just isn’t good enough anymore. Restoring isn’t good enough anymore. Today’s users expect much more. I’m a bit of an old fogey when it comes to backup. I made my first backup to a cassette tape attached to a…
Webinar: 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…
Introducing DRaaS 2.0
When Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) was first introduced its advantages were immediately obvious to the organizations that chose to use it. Namely the cost savings in not having to equip and operate a remote DR site. But limitations…
Webinar: 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…
Do you need to Backup your Sync/Share Service?
Sync and share services need backup for all the same reasons that you need to backup everything else. A lot of people think this isn’t the case, but the short version of the answer to the question is yes, you…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data corruption, file sync and share, Ransom, Recovery, Tervela
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Backup vs. Archive
Backup is the process of making copies of an organization’s data so in the event that data was corrupted, erased or becomes unavailable for any reason, IT can use the copies to restore it. Backup should have the primary goal…
Don’t Delete Data from Your Archive
In a recent blog my colleague W. Curtis Preston used the movie “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” as an excellent example of why organizations should take great care in how they manage data archives. In that blog he suggests,…
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