We’ve kicked off the 2015 season of our data protection workshops. This year we are providing details on real-world designs that upgrade your backups. At the “Backup 2.0 Workshop” we will break the age-old rules of data protection to meet…
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ChalkTalk Video: Making Backup Storage Work Harder
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, performance, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions, Storage Decisions 2015, TechTarget
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Webinar: Cleaning up the SDS Mess – Four Keys to Success
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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What is Shadow IT? – and why you should care
“Shadow IT” is a name for the process that occurs when users self-select IT services, signing up for cloud-based services without the knowledge or approval of the IT organization. IT could take the attitude that Shadow IT is a good…
Briefing Note: Backup and Archive take a step closer to the Alter
Everybody agrees that intelligent archives are the way to efficiently manage data, moving lesser-accessed files off of expensive storage and providing a long-term retention capability. When combined with backup, an archive can improve both primary storage utilization and data protection,…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, NAS, Quantum, Unstructured data
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Why “Mostly” isn’t Enough in Backup – and what to do about it
Part time insurance is a dangerous thing. You need to be covered all the time in all situations. The IT professionals in charge of backup live this. Comprehensive backup is good insurance but a backup solution that leaves even one…
Podcast – Fixing fractured backup and bad DR
Zetta found in a recent survey of IT pros from a cross-section of companies that IT environments in most companies are a conglomeration of operating systems, platforms and backup solutions and that backup is a mess for most companies and DR…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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SlideShare: How Snapshots CAN be Backups
Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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Analyst Blog: Cloud Storage is only as Risky as you make it
In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, File Sharing, Hybrid
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Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?
Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
Briefing Note: Intronis Reverses Backups and Simplifies Delivery
One task that many data centers would like to get rid of is data protection. Offering it as a service is not only popular with managed service providers (MSP) and value-added resellers (VAR), it also launches many of them into…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Intronis, MSP, Protection, Recovery, VAR
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