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Cloud Backups – Purpose Built vs. Public Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

Leveraging the cloud as part of the data protection process is increasing in popularity, and with that popularity come a lot of options for IT planners to sift through. One area of consideration is the cloud destination. There is a…

The State of Deduplication in 2015

Posted on January 26, 2015 by George Crump

At its core, deduplication is an enabling technology. First, it enabled disk based backup devices to become the primary backup target in the data center. Now it promises to enable the all-flash data center by driving down the cost of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, Replication, Retroactive Deduplication, Snapshots, Tiering
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Briefing Note: Dakota Cloud Recovery – Cloud Backup is about Data Center Quality

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup providers can come in a variety of forms. Some are really backup software developers that happen to leverage the cloud as part of their software solution. These providers count on a generic cloud data center, like Amazon AWS…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dakota, Data Protection, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Recovery
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Webinar: How Snapshots CAN be Backups

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

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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Can the Cloud consolidate the Backup of Endpoints, Laptops and Servers?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

Every few years the backup consolidation project shows up on IT’s whiteboard. The objective of this exercise seems noble enough; consolidate point solutions so that the data protection process can be simplified, while at the same time increasing protection quality…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Data Protection, Hybrid, Infrascale, Infrastructure, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, SME, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Unitrends delivers Flash in a Backup Appliance

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Dedicated backup appliances have become a very popular method for deploying data protection software. They significantly reduce implementation time and greatly streamline ongoing support. But backup appliances face a challenge; everything around them is getting bigger and faster. Making sure…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Flash, Metadata, Recovery, Solid State Disk, Unitrends, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Backup is about Recovery, so is Axcient’s Latest Release

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

There is an overused saying in the data protection market, “it is all about recovery”. I often debate this phrase since no recovery happens if there are not frequent and quality backups being made. But it is fair to say…

Tagged with: Axcient, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Replication, VMDK
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Briefing Note: Sphere 3D and Overland Storage complete merger, introduce new VDI Appliance

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Eric Slack

On December 2nd 2014, Sphere 3D, manufacturer of the Glassware 2.0 application virtualization platform, completed the merger announced in May with longtime storage vendor Overland Storage, makers of the SnapServer NAS products, NEO tape libraries and RDX portable disk drives.…