Defining backup is both simple and complex. Google says a backup is “the procedure for making extra copies of data in case the original is lost or damaged.” This definition describes the action (extra copies) and the purpose (in case…
Blog Archives
What is Backup?
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Erasure Coding, RAID, Replication, Snapshots
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Data at your Service – Bringing Self-Service to Data Management
The business environment changed radically over the last decade. Long gone are the standard 9 to 5 working days on a Monday through Friday business model. Today, businesses are operating 24/7 365 days a year. Operations are moving to be…
A Secondary Storage Game Changer? – Commvault Go 2016
A data protection solution has many parts. First, obviously, there is the data protection software that moves data from production storage to secondary storage. The software, of course, gets a lot of attention. It has to protect all of an…
Tagged with: Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Data Management as a Strategy – Commvault Go 2016
A complete data management requires solutions for data protection, data preservation, copy management, data mobility, data classification, data search and disaster recovery. There are numerous point solutions on the market today that address these needs, but most only cover one…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Integration, Replication, Snapshot
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Managing your Cloud’s Lifecycle
One of the most important, recent shifts in enterprise IT operations is the migration of not only ever-increasing amounts of data to the cloud, but also the full complement of business services as IT begins to implement a cloud first…
Is your Backup Software Aware of your Data?
Twenty years ago backup applications had absolutely no knowledge of the data they were backing up. Those responsible for backing up applications such as Oracle, Informix, or Sybase were told to either shut down those applications prior to running a…
Does Data Management make Data more Mobile?
Proper data management can indeed make data more mobile. Put another way, it can appear to make data more mobile by making it appear to be in multiple places at the same time without consuming capacity. One of the key…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Virtualize
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Software Defined Deduplication is Critical to the Cloud
The goal of any cloud initiative is to create a cost-effective, flexible environment. The architectures will typically store large data sets for long periods of times, so one of the challenges to being cost-effective is the physical cost of storage.…
Modernized IT Needs an Intelligent Virtual Data Repository
The cloud is not a single location. It is a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud locations and an organization may have several of each. The cloud aspect means that data and workloads should move seamlessly between these locations.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Metadata, Snapshot, Virtualize, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What is a Cloud Ready Platform?
Once an organization has carefully considered all the various factors, requirements and ramifications of a cloud first strategy and has decided to implement it, they need the means to accomplish the migration of their selected data, applications and processes to…
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 