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…
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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
Posted in Storage Q&A
The Enterprise needs Web-Scale Scalability
Data centers of all sizes are investigating Web-Scale architectures to see if they will meet their needs. In our recent webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise IT“, we asked enterprise IT planners “What Appeals Most About a Web-Scale Architecture?”. The top vote…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What is the cost of Application Downtime?
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What do RTO/RPO have to do with your Virtualized Environment?
Maintaining the right level of uptime for newly virtualized critical applications is a key requirement for virtualization administrators. In this higher stakes, virtualized world time tested techniques like establishing recovery point and recovery time objectives are as critical as ever. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump helps you design a data protection strategy for VMs that are critical to the business.
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, RPO, RTO, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtualization
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
Backing up the Agile Data Center
The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
SlideShare – 5 ways your Backup Design can impact Virtualized Data Protection
Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, disk backup, ExaGrid, Integration, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, Scalability, Scale-Out, Veeam, Virtualization
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
Can Dell be a leader in the Software Defined, Converged Data Center?
IDC recently recognized Dell as the leader in total terabytes sold (internal and external), and strengthened our stance that Dell is well positioned as we continue down the road to software defined storage and converged infrastructure. Dell is unique among…
Tagged with: Backup, Converged Storage, Dell, Disaster recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Storage Short: Deduplication is NOT a Checkbox item
Back in the early 2000s, when deduplication first came to market, it was a new concept and people had no problem asking a lot of questions about it. Fast forward 14 years – now deduplication is almost everywhere and we’re…
ExaGrid delivers Veeam Integrated Disk Backup
Veeam Backup and Replication brings many advanced data protection and recovery features to virtualized environments. And backup appliances have become a popular way to efficiently store, recover and electronically vault virtualized data for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. The challenge is…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, disk backup, ExaGrid, Integration, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, Scalability, Scale-Out, Veeam, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
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