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2018 SMB Disaster Preparedness Guide

Posted on February 6, 2018 by George Crump

Small to medium-sized businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. They have to deal with a much tighter budget than a larger business, while at the same time having to meet very similar recovery expectations for users.…

Tagged with: BLI, CBT, dr, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Virtualization, VM
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Overcoming the Biggest Roadblock to the Always-On Data Center

Posted on June 1, 2015 by George Crump

Believing in the Always-On Data Center One of the topics in our on demand webinar, “Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality”, is overcoming the roadblocks to the Always-On Data Center. In this webinar experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Bacula Enterprise is changing the definition of Open-source Backup Software

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Eric Slack

For many in IT, the term “open source software” conjures images of inexpensive but powerful programs that require a lot attention to keep running. They’re often a better fit for organizations with more time than money; unfortunately, most organizations don’t…

Tagged with: Bacula, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Deduplication, Open Source, Protection, Snapshot, Virtual machine
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Analyst Blog: The Data Protection Network Gap

Posted on November 19, 2014 by George Crump

Storage Switzerland has been tracking an interesting trend, or maybe lack of a trend, in data protection over the last 10 months; the decay in the quality of the data protection network as compared to the continual improvement of the…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Change Block Tracking, Data Protection, Hyper-V, Oracle, Recovery, SQL
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Overcoming challenges when integrating Disk Backup Appliances with Veeam

Posted on September 18, 2014 by George Crump

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

There is a new breed of backup applications that is gaining acceptance in data centers of all sizes, including the enterprise: VM Specific Backup Applications. These solutions were designed from the ground up, with virtualization in mind and they do…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, I/O, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Overcoming the Recovery-In-Place challenge

Posted on June 30, 2014 by George Crump

The advanced capabilities of virtualization-specific backup applications, such as Veeam, have brought new flexibility to the protection and recovery of virtual servers. In fact, these improvements, plus better availability, may be justification enough to virtualize a workload. Two of the…