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Why and How to Change Backup Solutions – Catalogic Briefing Note

Posted on January 22, 2018 by George Crump

Almost every organization is looking for a better backup solution. Given the number of new solutions that appear on the market, seemingly every day, IT needs to decide why they need to change backup solutions and then how to replace…

Tagged with: BLI, Block Level Backup, Catalogic, Cloud, dr, MS-SQL, NAS, Ransomware, Retention, SQL, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Does Your Copy Data Solution Play Checkers or Chess? – Catalogic Briefing Note

Posted on April 26, 2017 by George Crump

A copy data management solution should save organization’s money in two areas. First, and most obvious, physical capacity consumption by creating virtual copies instead of actual copies, but any storage system with snapshot capabilities can at some level claim that…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Cloud, Copy Data, MS-SQL, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SDS, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Bringing Copy Data Management to Pure Storage

Posted on September 14, 2016 by George Crump

Catalogic Briefing Note The goal of a copy data management (CDM) solution is to limit the number of secondary copies of data by combining advanced snapshots and replication with orchestration to automate how secondary copies of data are presented to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Catalogic, CDM, Compression, Deduplication, Pure, Replication, Snapshot
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Copy Data Management for Oracle and the Cloud

Posted on August 26, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Catalogic Briefing Note Managing all the copies of the data in your environment is one of the keys to managing cost and making dev/test and analytics more efficient. Most organizations do a very poor job of managing their copies. A…

Tagged with: Backup, Catalogic, CDM, Dev/Test, Integration, Recovery, Snapshot
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DevOps for IT Pros: The Key to Addressing Bi-Modal IT

Posted on May 23, 2016 by wcurtispreston

DevOps can deliver a strong return on investment (ROI) for those environments choosing to invest in it. Environments adopting a DevOps mentality move from merely supporting operations to truly enabling better, more efficient operations. IT moves from merely changing the…

Tagged with: Agile, Catalogic, Cloud, dev/ops, Infrastructure, LUN, NFS, ROI
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The Bi-Modal IT Challenge

Posted on February 2, 2016 by George Crump

IBM and Catalogic Team Up To Help Transform IT The modern data center has two modes; Reliable IT and Agile IT. Reliable IT represents core mission critical applications that drive the internal operations of the company. As its name suggests,…

Tagged with: Agile IT, Catalogic, Cloud, Copy Data, dev/ops, IBM, Infrastructure, Reliable IT, Software Defined
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ChalkTalk Video: Customer Case Study Using ECX to Manage Copy Data

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

File data can amount to 80% or more of the data that needs to be protected and managed. For Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, it was a big problem. Stepphon Gayle, their Data Storage Manager, handles protecting more than…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Copy Data, Data Protection, Unstructured data, VMworld
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Copy Data Management: In-Place vs. Rip and Replace

Posted on July 27, 2015 by George Crump

Copy Data are the copies of production data made for various business functions. It is growing at an alarming rate as IT and business processes beyond data protection demand access to versions of production data. Copy Data Management (CDM) has emerged to manage this data, creating two sub-categories reflective of their approach; “in-place CDM” and “replace CDM”. In this article StorageSwiss explains the differences in these approaches and how to select the one that is best for your data center.

Tagged with: Archive, Catalogic, CDM, Copy Data, Data Protection, Dev/Test, Snapshot
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SlideShare – Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements

Posted on March 17, 2015 by George Crump

Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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StorageShort: Copy Data Methods

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

2015 is going to be a big year for Copy Data. We expect every major data protection vendor to release some form of copy data management solution to the market this year. But vendors will take different approaches to deliver…