The recent EMC Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) product launch covered a dizzying array of interesting BRS product announcements. Amongst these announcements was the unveiling of the final phase of the total hardware and software integration of their market leading Avamar…
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The TCO of Meeting a Backup Window
Backup is a budget area that’s considered an expense, one for which investment is typically minimized. When money is spent it often goes to short-term fixes for the most essential parts of the process, like meeting the backup window. This…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Hardware, Information technology, Sepaton
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The Role Of Enterprise Backup In The Modern Data Center
Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, HP, NetApp, OpenVMS, Storage, TCO, Virtual machine
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A Decade of Data Domain
A decade has passed since Data Domain began selling its first appliance and started evangelizing the virtues of data deduplication as an enabling technology to reduce the torrents of backup data in data center environments. The term “deduplication” was not…
Tape is More Than The Backup of Last Resort
As we discussed in a recent webinar, “Why Tape is Making a Comeback“, data centers of all sizes are seeing the wisdom of renewing the role of tape and tape libraries in their backup and archiving environments. With the release…
Fixing The Performance Weakness of MSP BaaS
Recently Storage Switzerland and Intronis held a webinar to discuss the most important aspects of rolling out a backup as a service (BaaS) cloud based backup solution. As an interactive webinar, we polled the audience at the outset of the…
The Value of Real Time Backup Health Assessment
Change is good…or is it? The sheer volume and velocity of changes taking place in IT environments today is staggering. While change may be good for business needs, if left unchecked, improperly managed changes within the backup environment could deal…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, Hypervisor, Monitoring, Real Time, Recovery, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
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Sepaton v7.0 Product Analysis
Enterprise data centers environments are continuously faced with ever growing volumes of backup data. Many organizations have embraced purposed built backup appliances (PBBAs) utilizing deduplication (dedupe) to help drive operational efficiencies and reduce reliance on tape as a primary backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Oracle, PBBA, Record linkage, Sepaton, Storage
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PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup
Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…
Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
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Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery
Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…
Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
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