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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014 – Part 2

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

Every year we look at the articles and other content posted on StorageSwiss.com (this year over 800 pieces) to see which topics generated the most interest. As we mentioned in our blog counting down numbers 11-15, flash storage was one…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash, GRO, MLC, NAND Flash, RPO, RTO, SLC, SLO, SQL, SSD, Unstructured data, VRO
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014

Posted on December 29, 2014 by George Crump

2014 was a big year at StorageSwiss.com. Thanks to our readers we saw record traffic to the site. As we close out each year, it’s interesting to review the top-read articles. In 2014’s list you’ll see two common themes, flash…

Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Flash Array, Multi-Tenant, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtualization
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Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…

News Analysis: Datto buys Backupify for complete Cloud Protection

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

Acquisitions are a common occurrence in the IT market. Most are predictable, but every so often one takes us off-guard. Datto’s acquisition of Backupify falls into that category. But even more rare is this acquisition actually makes sense. Datto is…

Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Managing Snapshots as part of the Data Protection Process

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Three Steps to Backup and Recovery Success”, we discussed service level objectives (SLOs) and how to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Snapshots can play a key role in meeting tight RPOs…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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Briefing Note: Removing Tape Pain with B&L Associates Vertices and VaultLedger

Posted on December 9, 2014 by George Crump

Recently I wrote an article “Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape” which explained the advantages of using tape for cold backup storage and active archive storage. The economics behind tape are simply too compelling to ignore. The…

Tagged with: Archive, B&L Associates, Backup, Certificate of Destruction, COD, Disk, Tape
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Storage Q&A: The future of Data Protection Software

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Recently I sat down with George Crump, founder of Storage Switzerland, and Scott Baker, Director of Enterprise Data Protection from HP’s Data Protection Division to discuss what the next generation data backup solutions might be. Data is growing not only…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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Backup 2.0 – How Primary Storage, Backup Software and Backup Hardware are solving data protection challenges

Posted on December 3, 2014 by George Crump

Data protection is more than just backup and backup is more that just moving data from point A to point B. Data centers need to design a layered data protection strategy that allows them to meet a wide variety of…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, RAID, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Unstructured Data is distracting Backup Administrators

Posted on December 1, 2014 by George Crump

File based data accounts for more than 80 percent of capacity demand and backup administrators spend most of their time protecting this unstructured data. But the remaining set, structured data, will cause the organization the most harm if it is…

Tagged with: Active Archive, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud as a Service, Data Protection, Nasuni, Recovery, Unstructured data
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How Traditional Data Centers should use the Cloud

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Some corporate financial planners are pointing towards the use of hybrid cloud solutions as a way to reduce storage costs. The idea is to move redundant copies of information off expensive onsite primary storage to lower cost storage in the…