The public cloud has backed IT into a number of uncomfortable places; specifically, there are a number of environments where company data is being created in places where it is difficult to protect. This is especially true for smaller companies…
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Using the Cloud to Make IT Better: CTERA Cloud Storage Enablement
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, Replication
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Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them
Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when storage and compute…
Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Hybrid, Latency, QOS, Replication
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Build your DRaaS
DRaaS is the future of disaster recovery, but leveraging cloud backup may be an expensive way to implement it. Cloud replication, because it is operating on the working set, keeps cloud storage costs contained. The cloud replication software also enables organizations with an IT ready secondary site to leverage that site and create their own DRaaS. In either case, the organization is in control of when and how recovery happens. DRaaS built on replication also enables organizations to use the replication software to enable other cloud initiatives like bursting and test/dev. In this article Storage Switzerland explores the various methods to go about creating and implementing a DRaaS solution.
Tagged with: Baas, Backup, CSP, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, MSP, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Zerto
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What is a Cloud First Strategy
Can a data protection company that first released its products in the pre-cloud era claim to adopt a “cloud first” strategy? The proof would be in the proverbial pudding, of course. If a company developing products for IT is putting…
Backing up Massive Cloud Databases
Where traditional structured databases are seeing a reduction in growth, massively scalable databases that often run in the cloud are taking off. But like so many advances in technology, scale out databases like MongoDB and Cassandra are solving one group…
Tagged with: API, Backup, Cloud, Datos IO, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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SlideShare: 5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken and How to Fix them
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to solve IT challenges of all types. When it comes to storage, IT mostly looks at the cloud for backup, archive and occasionally for collaboration. But not for primary storage.…
Asigra is Backing up Docker Containers
The first commercial solution designed for backing up containers is here. So the first question is: do you need to back up containers? The answer is really up to you. Whether or not they need backup depends on how you…
Backing up Databases in Docker Containers
Docker is for ephemeral data and shouldn’t have data that needs to be backed up. Or at least that’s what I was told for a while. And then I met the head of development for a large bank in Australia…
NAB Vendors Discover Data Protection
I was pleasantly surprised when I visited storage vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, suffice it to say that it is massive. It is Las Vegas’ second largest…
Solving the Ransomware Problem – Backup or Cloud Storage?
Given the “success” of its initial wave, the ransomware problem is getting worse. Backups seem to be the “go to” solution but really they should represent the last line of defense. The problem with backups are that they are not…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Global File System, NAS, Nasuni, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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