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Why Scale-Up Architecture Breaks Backup

Posted on May 3, 2018 by George Crump

The backup architecture will likely store 5 to 10 times the amount of data that the primary storage system holds. Additionally, organizations are looking to use backup data for far more than just an insurance copy of data. They want…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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Hyperconvergence is NOT Backup

Posted on April 26, 2018 by George Crump

One of the riskiest claims a vendor ever makes is “we’ve eliminated the need for backup” and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors make this claim frequently. Good data resiliency is not good backup, and in fact, some of the work that…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots
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Why Do Point Products Break Backup

Posted on April 19, 2018 by George Crump

One of the most alarming trends in data protection is the number of different solutions data centers are deploying and managing so they can keep up with the organization’s recovery expectations and budget realities. The demands for rapid recovery are…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Snapshot, Sprawl, TRO
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Why Virtualization STILL Breaks Backup

Posted on April 12, 2018 by George Crump

With the broad adoption of server virtualization by data centers, it became apparent that protection of the new environment was very inadequate. Organizations faced in-guest protection or very fragile off-host architectures. As adoption continued, VMware and others made significant strides…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Hypervisor, Migration, Snapshots, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup

Posted on April 5, 2018 by George Crump

For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Webinar: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It

Posted on April 2, 2018 by George Crump

IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM
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Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix it

Posted on March 29, 2018 by George Crump

For most organizations backup, the process of regularly and consistently protecting production data, is fundamentally broken. As a result, these organizations have very little confidence in IT’s ability to recover data at all, let alone promptly. To try to fix…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hyperconverged, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Sprawl
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What to do When Taking Over a Data Protection Nightmare – One College’s Journey to Simplified Data Protection

Posted on November 27, 2017 by George Crump

Data protection is hard. The process has to, in someway, interact with almost every server, virtual machine, application, network interface and storage system. The problem is many data centers make the situation worse by buying multiple data protection software and…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Commvault, dr, eDiscovery, Hybrid, IoT, Presidio, Retention
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Scaling Out Backup

Posted on September 20, 2017 by George Crump

Secondary storage, the storage that holds among other things backup data, will potentially store 10X the amount of capacity primary storage will. In addition, organizations are expecting more from their backup solutions; faster recoveries, data management and copy data management.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, Scale, VM, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: Hyperscaling Data Protection

Posted on August 30, 2017 by George Crump

One of the data protection challenges IT professionals face is dealing with the growth of protected copies of data. Traditional systems simply scale up and eventually hit a wall that forces an upgrade or the purchase of additional systems. The…