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Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note

Lightboard Video: Hybrid Cloud for Media and Entertainment

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Companies in industries such as the media and entertainment vertical are looking to complement their on-premises data centers with the use of cloud services. The cloud can help to facilitate cross-site collaboration, remote workers, expansion into new regions, and more…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, Hybrid, IoT, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Qumulo, Retention
Posted in Video

On Demand Webinar: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 1, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, application owner and users all have much higher expectations of IT than ever before. They expect IT to recover real-time data instantaneously and recall aged data very quickly. These expectations mean that backup architectures are getting stretched at both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Webinar

Lightboard Video: Improve Efficiency by Recovering from Storage Snapshots

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Businesses are counting on IT for competitive differentiation. The problem is that IT teams are bogged down with day-to-day tasks, especially when it comes to data protection. Watch this Lightboard Video to learn how to integrating data protection into production…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Video

What Constitutes a Complete Data Protection Platform?

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Endpoint protection has frequently been treated as an expensive hassle that is not worth it. However, for a number of reasons, organizations can no longer risk leaving employees’ laptops, tablets and other devices unprotected. The major concern is that data…

Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
Posted in Blog

Meet Application Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Without Breaking Your Storage Budget

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Effective application performance management (APM) is fundamental to business success. Businesses are relying on applications for differentiated end customer experiences, smoother internal collaboration, and for innovation. Fundamental to making sure that business critical applications are running smoothly (i.e. they are…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, TCO, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog

What’s Changing in Backup Software?

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Today’s business environment is always-on and can tolerate no delays, and data is at the heart of these requirements. Data must be accessible the moment it is needed. At the same time, business analytics and regulations such as the California…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Cloudian, file sync and share, Hybrid, Metadata, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam
Posted in Blog

Rethinking Your Data Governance Strategy for Compliance

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

In today’s era of regulations, the role of archive and long-term retention data is changing dramatically. No longer can data simply be shipped off to a “cheap and deep” repository with the hope that it will never need to be…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

Breaking Backup with SaaS

Posted on June 27, 2019 by George Crump

Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
Posted in Blog

How to Design a Modern Data Protection Architecture

Posted on June 26, 2019 by George Crump

Data Protection is changing. Today backup software can recover in-place, instantiating volumes directly on the backup storage which enables organizations to significantly reduce recovery windows. Consequently, the performance of the backup storage hardware matters more than ever. At the same…