A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…
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Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?
Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups
Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Linux, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual, Virtual Technologies, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Solving the RMAN Backup Challenge
Database applications are typically the lifeblood of organizations, supporting revenue generating activities and/or mission critical business data analysis. Database administrators are the stewards of this infrastructure and often have an almost personal interest in the welfare of these precious information…
Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, DD Boost, Disaster recovery, Oracle, Oracle RMAN, RMAN
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What is Backup Appliance Sprawl – and how to stop it
Appliances have arguably become the de facto product format for new technologies in IT for a number of reasons. They’re complete systems that typically don’t require other components and their ‘plug and play’ implementation is simpler than the software and…
Tagged with: Appliance Sprawl, Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
How Big Backup Impacts Deduplication
“Big Backup” is an enterprise challenge where millions (or billions) of files have to be processed each night so they can be safely and cost effectively stored on backup devices. These kinds of backup jobs not only have large numbers…
Dell Brings Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery To The SMB Market
Dell today announced its first entrance into the disk backup target appliance market in the form of the new Dell DR4000. Targeted directly at the medium-size business, the DR4000 comes with built-in deduplication, compression and replication as part of a…
Tagged with: Backup, Commvault, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Dell, Ocarina Networks, PBBA, Symantec, The Dell, WAN
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
AKiTio Taurus Super Mini S
A new addition to the Storage Switzerland Lab is the AKiTio Super Mini S. This is a small, somewhat portable dual drive storage device that can either stripe or mirror two 2.5″ hard drives. While some assembly is required I…
Tagged with: Akitio, Backup, Booting, Hard disk drive, IEEE 1394, RAID, Solid-state drive, Standard RAID levels, Test Drive
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
Breaking The Top Four Myths Of Tape vs. Disk Backup
Over the past few years disk as a backup target has become a key enhancement to most backup infrastructures. Disk is believed to be faster, almost as cost-effective and more resilient. In reality tape has its own unique value in…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Data Protection, disk backup, Hardware, RAID, Tape drive, Tape library, Virtual Tape Library
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Posted in Article
Nimble Storage Briefing Note
Nimble Storage is a convergence device of a different sort. Instead of focusing on unifying primary storage protocols, they are unifying primary storage, backups and disaster recovery into a single device. The goal is essentially to allow storage managers to…
Tagged with: Backup, CASL, Data corruption, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Nimble, Nimble Storage, RAID, Solid-state drive
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
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