The use of tape has certainly declined in today’s data center, but it has not disappeared – much to the chagrin of some people who are self-professed “tape haters”. They simply don’t understand why anyone would use tape in a…
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The Role of Backup in a Disaster Recovery Operation
Almost anything that interrupts users from accessing their applications or their data is, to them, a disaster but for most IT Professionals a true disaster is an event that causes the loss of the entire data center. Disasters of this…
Preparing a Site for a Disaster
Preparations for your next disaster can’t start next week, next month or right before the disaster. It has to start now. There are a lot of things you must think about and implement before the disaster strikes. You need to…
The Importance of Application Aware Snapshots
An application aware snapshot is one that is taken with the knowledge of an application that is storing its data on the volume. If you need a primer on snapshots, please see our previous blog on the subject. The taking…
Should I put a Backup Agent in my VM?
Few people would disagree with the statement that the best way to backup virtual machines is some type of agentless method. And yet, years after this practice became common we still find some people putting backup agents in their VM.…
The Role of Snapshots in a Backup System
Snapshots are moving to the forefront of many data centers when it comes to data protection. Therefore, it’s important to have a solid understanding of how they work and what to use them for. It’s also very important to understand…
Storage Podcast January 2017 – HPE buys Simplivity and What Are Containers?
Join Storage Switzerland’s Analysts George Crump and Curtis Preston for our first live podcast of 2017. We will discuss the big news of the month: HPE buys Simplivity, update on the newest storage products and companies, AND provide a deep…
Backup, Replication and Snapshot – When to Use Which?
“Backups.” It’s the universal term used to describe a much broader set of tools that make up the entire data protection process. There are varying degrees of data protection offered as features of RAID, backup, replication and snapshots. And each…
Backup vs. Archive
Backup is the process of making copies of an organization’s data so in the event that data was corrupted, erased or becomes unavailable for any reason, IT can use the copies to restore it. Backup should have the primary goal…
Is RAID/Replication/Erasure Coding Backup?
One of the things that makes a backup person’s head spin around is when they hear someone say, “my data is on RAID, so I don’t need to back it up.” The same would be true of erasure coding and…
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