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StorageShort: Fast Recovery Point Objectives with Change Block Backup and In-place Recovery

Posted on July 1, 2015 by George Crump

Meeting a strict recovery point and recovery time objective requires more frequent backups and the ability to recover without transferring data. In this 74 second video we tell you how to meet strict RPO/RTOs. For more details watch our on-demand…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
Posted in StorageShort

Podcast – Biggest Recovery Nightmare: Storage System Failure or Total Data Center

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

The worst case recovery scenario is failure of your storage system, not destruction of the data center. If your data center is destroyed, you can at least point to where it used to be and most users will understand the…

Tagged with: Backup, Backup and Recovery, Disaster recovery, ExaGrid, RPO, RTO, Veeam
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Eliminating RPO/RTO With Affordable Secondary Storage

Posted on June 19, 2015 by George Crump

Backup 2.0 Workshop On The Way To London We completed Backup 2.0 Dallas and we will be in London on October 22nd. A popular session during the workshop discusses leveraging secondary storage and creating a usable copy of data that is only a…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, SLO, Snapshot, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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SlideShare: Cleaning up the SDS Mess – Four Keys to Success

Posted on June 17, 2015 by George Crump

Is Software Defined Storage (SDS) getting hijacked? It seems every vendor, old and new, is claiming that their storage is “software defined”. In our on demand webinar listen as experts from Storage Switzerland and Nexenta provide guidance to sorting out…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Hyper-convergence, Nexenta, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Beat a 4 Hour RPO-RTO Without Breaking the Bank

Posted on June 10, 2015 by George Crump

The Recovery Gap Storage Switzerland’s latest webinar, now available on demand, discussed ways that IT professionals could create the “Always-on Data Center”. In that webinar we asked a polling question that had surprising results. Over 89% of the attendees could…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, File Virtualization, Recovery in Place, RPO, Veeam, VM
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Briefing Note: Why buy a Backup Appliance from a Disk Drive Vendor?

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

Seagate CSS (Cloud Systems and Solutions), a division of this long-time disk drive manufacturer, was put together to develop storage infrastructure solutions for the hyper-scale cloud provider and OEM markets, among others. More than just a component manufacturer ‘moving up…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Hybrid, Hyper-scale, PBBA, Replication, Seagate, SMB, Software Defined
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StorageShort: Is Software-only SDS the best way to implement this technology?

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

There are a number of ways to implement SDS, including as a software-only solution. This method allows the user to provide the hardware, even re-purposing existing equipment in some cases. There are a number of user benefits to leveraging SDS…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Hyper-convergence, Nexenta, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Overcoming the Biggest Roadblock to the Always-On Data Center

Posted on June 1, 2015 by George Crump

Believing in the Always-On Data Center One of the topics in our on demand webinar, “Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality”, is overcoming the roadblocks to the Always-On Data Center. In this webinar experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Software Defined Deduplication for the Cloud

Posted on May 29, 2015 by George Crump

Unlike cloud compute which can scale up and down on the fly, cloud storage is more permanent. While organizations that use cloud storage only pay for the exact storage they are consuming, they do also pay for that storage month…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Efficiency, Permabit, Scale, Software Defined
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