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…
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Unstructured Data is distracting Backup Administrators
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
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…
Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash
In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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Virtualized Cloud Backup for Anything
Many technology companies talk a good game about providing their customers with choice, but few actually deliver on it. Public, private and hybrid cloud backup solution provider, Infrascale’s offering was built from the ground up with customer choice and hybrid…
Tagged with: Backup, Backup to the Cloud, Cloud, Compression, D2D, D2D2C, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, Disk-to-Disk, Hybrid, Infrascale
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Stopping the Unstructured Data Insanity
The fact that unstructured data is growing at an uncontrollable rate should come as no surprise to IT professionals. The challenge is figuring out what to do about this growth. How can you store it all in a cost effective…
Is Druva’s Phoenix the next step in Mid-market Cloud Backup?
Druva is a market leader in end-point data protection with over 3000 customers in 70 countries. They see cloud backup approaching a ‘tipping point’ which could enable it to become a de facto standard in the backup industry, especially if…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, D2D2C, Data Protection, Data Retention, Data security, Deduplication, Druva, Latency, Metadata
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Analyst Blog: The Data Protection Network Gap
Storage Switzerland has been tracking an interesting trend, or maybe lack of a trend, in data protection over the last 10 months; the decay in the quality of the data protection network as compared to the continual improvement of the…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Change Block Tracking, Data Protection, Hyper-V, Oracle, Recovery, SQL
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Can Backup 2.0 meet ALL your SLOs?
Over the last year Storage Switzerland has gone around the world delivering a workshop on data protection for IT professionals. Our focus has been not just on the new technologies that have emerged over the past year, but also on…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Beyond Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO
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SlideShare – Designing Cloud Backup to reduce DR downtime for IT Professionals
IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center. That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Are you Virtualizing your Applications or your Data Center?
Many data centers are now more than 50% virtualized, but most of this virtualization has been application focused leading to silos of virtualization. As a result, each environment (MS-SQL, Exchange, VDI) gets its own storage, compute and network. This process…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
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