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Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
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Does Post Process Deduplication have a Role in the Future of Deduplication

Posted on February 6, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent article “The State of Deduplication in 2015” we took a look at how deduplication is impacting the data center. Deduplication continues to change how data protection is performed and it is dramatically changing primary storage, most notably…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAND
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Analyst Blog: Why Cloud File Sync and Share is not Backup

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Eric Slack

In a recent briefing note we discussed the need for backing up cloud-based productivity applications, also called Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), such as GoogleDocs, Office365 or SalesForce.com. People often assume that because these services are storing their data in the cloud, that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, SaaS, Software as a service
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How Cloud can enable the All-Flash Data Center

Posted on February 5, 2015 by George Crump

It’s been said that, given the choice, every data center would choose to be all-flash. This is because access to near limitless performance not only increases application scale it also simplifies many day-to-day storage management tasks. This potential has led…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disk, Flash, Hybrid
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Copy Data vs. Snapshots

Posted on February 4, 2015 by George Crump

As I discussed in an earlier column “Not All Snapshots are the Same”, storage systems that use a re-directed snapshot technique can typically maintain thousands of snapshots without impacting storage performance. But just because you can maintain thousands of snapshots,…

Tagged with: Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Point-in-Time, Retention, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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Enterprise- vs Consumer-grade Flash in the Datacenter: How to Choose

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

Using consumer-grade flash drives in datacenter environments is a common practice for saving money. So it wasn’t a big surprise that two-thirds of attendees on a recent StorageSwiss webinar reported that they currently use both enterprise and consumer SSDs in…

Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Hyper-scale, Metadata, OCZ, performance, Redundancy, Reliability, SSD
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Briefing Note: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance

Posted on February 3, 2015 by George Crump

Backup appliances have become a popular method for backup software vendors to deliver their software. It eliminates much of the hassle of initial installation and makes on-going support easier, since the vendor is now dealing with a more common foundation.…

Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Migration, Replication, Tape, Virtual machine
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Analyst Blog: If Primary Storage Protects itself, what is Backup for?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by George Crump

In our last few columns, Storage Switzerland has described a data protection solution that allows primary storage to leverage snapshot technology to protect itself. The basic design requires two storage systems, one on-premise and one at a disaster recovery location.…

Not all Snapshots are the same

Posted on February 2, 2015 by George Crump

In an upcoming webinar, Storage Switzerland will make the case for using snapshots as a primary component of data protection. For this strategy to work several things are needed from the storage infrastructure. First, it must be able to keep…

Tagged with: Backup, Copy-on-write, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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Briefing Note: CloudAlly provides Unlimited SaaS Application Backup

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Eric Slack

Originally the term “cloud backup” referred to primarily consumer-grade services that backed up PCs and laptops to a cloud-based provider. These services were designed to protect users’ data, mostly digital content like photos and music, but also documents. But business…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, CloudAlly, Data Protection, Deduplication, Infrastructure, SaaS, Software as a service
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