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What is RPO? – Recovery Point Objective

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Below is our latest whiteboard video featuring George Crump, Lead Analyst. He provides a preview of one of the areas covered in our upcoming series of workshops with TechTarget and Storage Decisions. In fact, Tuesday, September 29th we will be…

Tagged with: Backup, Comprehensive Data Protection, Data Protection, Recovery, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions
Posted in Video

Creating Enterprise Class File Sync and Share – Podcast

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The use of file sync and share services like Dropbox is becoming more popular. This is creating an IT “blind spot” since administrators have no insight into the corporate data stored there. Organizations need secure file sync and share services…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data center, File Share, File Sharing, File Storage, File Sync, File/synch, PanTerra, Share Services, Shared Storage, Solid-state drive
Posted in Podcast

Software Defined Storage – Podcast

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Hyper-converged storage is true Software-defined Storage (SDS), since by migrating storage intelligence to the hypervisor it’s completely hardware agnostic. But there’s still room for improvement. In this podcast, we look at how SDS is evolving and how it can continue…

Tagged with: Atlantis ILIO, Backup, Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Flash, Flash memory, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
Posted in Podcast

Are MSPs The Solution To CryptoLocker and Ransomware?

Posted on February 17, 2014 by George Crump

In late 2013, a new virus/malware appeared called CryptoLocker. What makes this malware unique is that its maker’s intention is to do more than just infect computers to see how much havoc they can wreak, this one actually wants to…

Tagged with: Backup, CAP, Cloud, CryptoLocker, Intronis, Malware, MSP, Protection, Ransomware
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Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

As a seasoned IT backup administrator recently said on a Storage Swiss webinar, “Avoid hearing the footsteps…”. This IT pro was referring to the unpleasant situation when folks from the C level suite start milling around outside your office waiting…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, ExaGrid, GRID, Hybrid, Infrastructure, QOS, Virtualization
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Podcast – How to Keep Virtualization from Breaking Your Backup.

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Our podcast guests are Kevin Russell, VP of Systems Engineering at ExaGrid, and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to discuss ways to efficiently backup data is a virtualized environment. Click below for our webinar with Kevin and Storage Switzerland’s…

Tagged with: Backup, Data center, disk backup, ExaGrid, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
Posted in Podcast

A Virtualization Backup Alternative – Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.9

Posted on February 14, 2014 by George Crump

When it comes to virtualization specific backup applications, many IT professionals only think of one name, Veeam. But there are several alternatives that those professionals should consider. One of those alternatives, Nakivo, just made its case stronger with the recent…

Tagged with: Backup, Compression, CSP, Deduplication, MSP, Multi-Tenant, Nakivo, Replication, Virtualization
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Full Service Cloud Backup is About More Than DR

Posted on February 12, 2014 by George Crump

Being a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a tough business and so is being an IT professional. Off-loading the backup architecture responsibility to a provider makes a lot of sense. Using the solution for more than just disaster recovery makes even more sense. In this article Storage Switzerland discusses how cloud backup can be used for far more than disaster recovery and how both MSPs and IT pros can take advantage of that.

Tagged with: Backup, Backup As A Service. BaaS, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Intronis, MSP
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Podcast – A Toolkit for Comprehensive Data Protection

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In our latest podcast, I sit down with Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump to discuss a major project that he is working on in 2014. Storage Decisions and Storage Switzerland are partnering together to bring you a…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Podcast, Protection, Security, seminar
Posted in Podcast

Lowering the Cost of Deleting Data

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Eric Slack

While the cost of raw data storage keeps dropping, the cost of deleting obsolete or inappropriate data can be prohibitive. No one wants to delete the file that might be needed someday. This results in the accumulation of data that has both cost and compliance ramifications. The key is to lower that risk by identifying good candidates for deletion. In this article Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack details the cost associated with file deletion and how to lower them through comprehensive file analysis.

Tagged with: Backup, File Analysis, File Storage, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, SolarWinds
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