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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection – Actifio 10c

Posted on December 17, 2019 by George Crump

Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Egress Fees, Migration, Object Storage, RTO, Snapshots, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

Creating Flow for Successful Disaster Recovery – NAKIVO Briefing Note

Posted on September 19, 2018 by George Crump

Nakivo 8 – Disaster Recovery Workflow Many backup and replication software solutions claim to help organizations recover from a disaster but just as backups are more than copying data from point A to point B, disaster recovery is more than…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Hyper-V, Nakivo, Replication, RPO, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

How does Data Loss Happen and How can it be Stopped?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by George Crump

A recent blog by B&L Associates brought to light the problem of data loss. The entry cites surveys from Kroll Ontrack and EMC, which indicated that organizations see data loss as their single most significant risk and that the cost…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Data Loss, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Protection, Replication, Snapshots, TechTarget
Posted in Blog

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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Storage Q&A: “The New Requirements of Backup Hardware” with Drobo and StorageSwiss

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Backup, backup, backup: it’s what everyone’s talking about these days. You have to save all those files, for one reason or the other, and probably because someone is telling you that you have to save those files. I recently sat…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Drobo, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

Webinar – The Four NEW Requirements of Backup Disk For Veeam Success

Posted on May 27, 2014 by George Crump

Veeam and other virtualization specific backup solutions change the game when it comes to data protection. They provide the capability to backup virtual machines rapidly and repeatedly, thanks to change block backups. Second, they provide the ability to recover virtual…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Recovery, SSD, Veeam, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Webinar

What Does Software-Defined Mean For Data Protection?

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Colm Keegan

What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…