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Primary Storage Deduplication is Here

Posted on December 13, 2013 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “The Truth About All-Flash Deduplication”, which is now available for on-demand viewing, we asked attendees where are they applying deduplication technology to improve storage efficiency. It was little surprise that backup storage, at 36% of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Information technology, Permabit, Storage
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Proof Point – Snapshots Replaces Backup – How One Customer Solved Their Company’s Backup Problems

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Eric Slack

Grand River Conservation Authority is a Canadian watershed management agency, similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority in the US. They’re responsible for an area the size of Delaware with a population of almost 1 million people. GRCA has 150 FT…

Tagged with: Backup, Delaware, Incremental backup, Microsoft SQL Server, Nimble Storage, Snapshot, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?

Posted on December 10, 2013 by George Crump

My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…

Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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EMC Briefing Day – NetWorker 8

Posted on December 6, 2013 by George Crump

Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…

Tagged with: Backup, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCbreifingDay, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, Virtual Tape Library, VMware
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Avamar’s Virtualization Journey Continues

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Colm Keegan

As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…

Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Data deduplication, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX
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EMC’s Remedy to the Accidental Backup Architecture

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Colm Keegan

As we hit the mid-point of our EMC briefing day, we sat down with the folks from EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division. The first item of discussion was the Data Domain product family. As we have covered in recent…

Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Oracle, Oracle Database, RMAN, VMware
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Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

As we will discuss in our upcoming webinar, creating a second copy in order to protect important data is becoming increasingly inefficient, a fact driven home by the relentless growth of ‘copy’ data in companies of all sizes. Setting up…

Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps

Posted on December 2, 2013 by George Crump

In this Webinar Storage Switzerland speaks with two IT Managers to discuss the challenges they’re having around data protection and application availability. They tell us how they leveraged Nimble Storage Data Protection Solutions to resolve those challenges. Learn what they…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Data Protection, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SQL
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Can The Enterprise Count on The Cloud For Data Protection?

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Cloud storage has come under increased scrutiny as of late, thanks to several well publicized outages as well as an outright shutdown of one provider. Enterprises are starting to re-think their cloud strategy, even when it comes to data protection. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst examines the state of cloud backup to determine if it is ready to deliver enterprise class protection.

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloud Backup, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data Protection, Data security, Encryption, HP, Protection
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A Tiered Approach To Data Protection

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Think your data is protected? Think again. True data protection is more than just enterprise backup, snapshots and replication; it’s a combination of all of these technologies. Understanding how to leverage each type of data protection is key towards enabling the rapid recovery of mission critical business information while not overspending on data protection insurance. In this article, lead analyst George Crump, outlines the specific role each type of data protection technology serves in the data center and how organizations can tier their data protection strategy for the maximum cost/benefit.