There is no such thing as the cloud; there is only somebody else’s computer. Data stored in the cloud (i.e. on someone else’s computer) needs to be protected just like data stored on your own computer. No one would question…
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Does The Cloud Need Backup?
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, file sync and share, Migration, Ransomware, Tervela
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A Private Cloud That’s More Than A Backup Appliance – Cloudian Product Analysis
An organization’s backup storage target options have changed from simple tape to an almost bewildering number of options such as fully integrated backup appliances, secondary storage systems, cloud storage, object storage and various other software defined storage (SDS) systems. An…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Encryption, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Replication, SDS, SMB
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How To Integrate On-Premises Storage To Cloud Storage?
In response to a polling question in our recent webinar, “Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain,” 27 percent of the respondents indicated their biggest challenge was integrating on-premises storage with the cloud. While general data migration…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Webinar: The Showdown for Data Preservation: Iron Mountain vs. The Cloud
Join Storage Switzerland and CloudLanes for our on demand webinar as we compare Iron Mountain to the cloud and provide ways to solve the gaps in public cloud storage’s ability to be a viable data preservation service. Register today and…
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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What Should MSPs Do After Backup?
Managed service providers are invaluable leading organizations to the cloud. But most excel in one area; backup. Some MSPs are adding disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). But there are two other areas where data centers (potential customers) continue to…
Webinar: Where is the All-Flash Data Center?
Find it With Multi-tiered Flash! The all-flash data center was to solve all our problems. We’ve had all-flash arrays for ½ a decade. Where are the all-flash data centers? The problem is that performance and cost have been opposing forces…
How To Design a Hyper-V Disaster Recovery Plan
Server Failure, Storage System Failure and Data Center Failure are all forms of disaster that will impact the Hyper-V environment. Now IT planners should add ransomware to that list. How does the Hyper-V Administrator design a disaster recovery plan? Disaster…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, Hyper-V, Nakivo, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization, VM
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How Do You Manage Petabytes of Data?
Managing petabytes of data is fundamentally harder than managing terabytes. Getting management wrong could cost the company thousands or worse lead data lost that could cost the company millions. Problems that you can ignore or confront with brute-force techniques with…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, HGST, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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How SMBs Can Have Enterprise Class DP without Breaking the Bank? – BackupAssist 10 Briefing Note
Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) often lack a good backup and recovery strategy, and often do not realize the difference between archive and disaster recovery. They find quality data protection (DP), data retention and disaster recovery difficult to obtain…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, BackupAssist, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DP, dr, Encryption, Hyper-V, LAN, SMB, SQL, Tape, VM, WAN
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Scale out NAS Needs a New Kind of Performance
Scale out NAS has proven the old adage that in IT we never solve any problems; we just move them around. Scale out systems were built for a lot of reasons, and one of the chief reasons was performance; a…
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