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What Happens When You Push the DRaaS Button?

Posted on August 20, 2018 by George Crump

In case of a disaster, a traditional cloud backup application needs to transfer all data across limited internet bandwidth and back to the data center or the new location. The bandwidth restrictions make cloud recovery a time consuming process that…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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SlideShare: How to Create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan that Actually Works

Posted on August 17, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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White Paper: Storage Diversity vs. Storage Consolidation

Posted on August 16, 2018 by George Crump

The advantages of storage consolidation, better utilization lowered operational costs, seem like compelling reasons for IT to consolidate all their storage systems down to a single system. Why then is the data center becoming more and more storage diversified? There…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, MySQL, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Virtualization, VM
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Backup Software Needs to Provide Freedom of Choice – Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.5

Posted on August 16, 2018 by George Crump

Backup software used to be a conduit through which data moved from primary storage to some form of protected storage. Today though, backup software vendors are increasingly forcing customers down a pre-selected path. Vendors are now bundling their solutions with…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Nakivo, NAS, Replication, Virtualization, WAN
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Demo: Disaster Recovery as a Service in Action

Posted on August 13, 2018 by George Crump

By leveraging the cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) eliminates many of the costs associated with a DR site, changing it from a capital cost to an operational cost. Does DRaaS sound too good to be true? Can organizations…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Migration, Recovery
Posted in Webinar

Webinar: The Next Question: How to Backup Office 365

Posted on August 13, 2018 by George Crump

The first Office 365 question is, do organizations need to protect their data stored there? The answer is yes, Office 365 data needs protection. Almost every industry expert recommends that organizations take Office 365 protection into their own hands and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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SlideShare: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture

Posted on August 10, 2018 by George Crump

The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
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The Architectures behind Cloud Storage

Posted on August 10, 2018 by George Crump

Each of the major cloud providers deliver at least three different types of cloud storage; high performance, archive and cold storage. Each of these storage types share the pay-as-you-go cloud expectation but each differ in terms of cost and performance.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, NFS, Object Storage, ROI, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, StorONE
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Ransomware Changes Backup Software

Posted on August 9, 2018 by George Crump

The threat of ransomware has put IT on its toes. The pressure is on to backup everything more frequently and to make sure that recoveries happen faster than a BitCoin transaction. Backup software manufacturers need to up their capabilities too.…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware
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SlideShare: Three Reasons Why NAS is No Good for AI and Machine Learning

Posted on August 8, 2018 by George Crump

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are becoming mainstream initiatives at many organizations. Data is at the heart of AI and ML. Immediate access to large data sets is pivotal to successful ML outcomes. Without data, there is no…

Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, HPC, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, WekaIO
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