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What’s Your Backup Retention Policy?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

What is the default retention policy for your backups? If you are like most organizations we speak to, the answer is typically three or more years. The next question is why, as in why is your backup retention so long?…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Enterprise Class Open SDS – SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 Briefing Note

Posted on November 21, 2018 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) promises to free organizations from storage hardware lock-in, and to some degree that is true. The problem is SDS then locks the customer into the storage software. Moving from one SDS solution to another is a…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, CEPH, Cloud, HPC, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale, SDS, SMB, SUSE
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An Endpoint Strategy is More Than a Backup Strategy

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Krista Macomber

Endpoints are a growing concern for enterprises, more employees have them (most have two or three), users store more data on them than ever (30% of that data is unique) and the data on these endpoints are within the scope…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication
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Webinar: Consumption Based Data Management Providing Peace of Mind

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Consumption based IT is a curated set of IT solutions that focus on business outcomes. As the name implies it is purchased on a pay-as-you-go model. The goal of consumption based IT is to simplify establishing IT infrastructure that incorporates…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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The Anatomy of the Copy Data Problem

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Countless IT processes count on copies of data. Backup is an obvious example, but test/dev, analytics processing, reporting, and file auditing are others. Various studies have indicated that copy data can consume as much as 10X the space consumed by…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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What is Intent Based Data Management? – Hammerspace Briefing Note

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Data management is moving to the top of many IT project whiteboards and the reason why is simple, organizations are drowning in unstructured data. There is too much data, too many files and organizations store it in too many locations.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hammerspace, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Evolving Data Protection from Backup to Copy Data Management

Posted on November 16, 2018 by George Crump

Copy Data Management promises to not only improve the data protection process, it promises to provide value to the organization even without a looming disaster. It can reduce storage costs by presenting virtual copies of data to test/dev, analytics and…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Managing Unstructured Data at Scale

Posted on November 15, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data as it scales from terabytes to petabytes creates a massive problem for organizations as they attempt to protect and manage that data. IT struggles with gaining visibility into the state of their unstructured data, which often requires multiple…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Is File Sync and Share OK for Endpoint Backup?

Posted on November 15, 2018 by George Crump

A surprising number of organizations and users consider their file sync and share (FSS) solution to be a suitable replacement for backup. With an FSS solution if a user accidentally deletes a file the FSS service can provide the user…