There is no question that there’s a lot of innovation when it comes to backing up the virtualized environment; but how do you protect the non-virtualized environment? A question we constantly ask IT professionals is “How virtualized are you?” —…
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At EMC, the 3rd Platform is all about the Metadata
With EMC’s acquisition of Spanning, the data protection arm of EMC’s new core technologies division (CTD) now has a tool for protecting data in cloud based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365. This was a needed acquisition that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage
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Backup Service Level Agreements vs. Service Level Objectives
Backup vendors and integrators have long tried to get organizations to set and maintain service level agreements (SLA) for various processes in their data centers including data protection. Creating SLAs for any process is a painstaking process, for data protection…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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Storage Short: The problem with Mutual Mystification and Backups
While many webinars focus on a specific technology, few focus on the process. If the data protection process is broken, a new backup or replication app will at best just be a band-aid that is destined to break the next…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Synnex
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Nakivo Delivers Recovery in Place
Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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How File Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud can solve the Copy Data dilemma
“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Storm, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, NAS, Nasuni, RPO, Security, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Enterprise-grade Backup for SMBs – WD Arkeia DA2300 Backup Appliance Part 2
This is part two of Storage Switzerland’s test drive of WD’s DA2300 Backup Appliance that features the WD Arkeia backup software. In part one we went through the set up and configuration steps, getting backup clients connected to the system…
Tagged with: Arkeia, Backup, Data Reduction, Deduplication, RAID, Replication, SMB, Storage Space, Video, Virtualization, Western Digital, Windows
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
Cloud Integrated Backup and DR
The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Latency, Recovery, Restoration, Storage
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SlideShare – Four Assumptions that are killing your Backup Storage
Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
Storage Q&A: Data Protection intelligence with HP and StorageSwiss
Backup and Recovery are vitally important to what we do in the Data Center. We can’t lose data and if something happens, we MUST get them back and you have to recover them fast. To help you have success in…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
Posted in Storage Q&A
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