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StorageShort: Copy Data Methods

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

2015 is going to be a big year for Copy Data. We expect every major data protection vendor to release some form of copy data management solution to the market this year. But vendors will take different approaches to deliver…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability, SDS, Software Defined, Test/Dev
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StorageShort: Why is Copy Data a Problem?

Posted on February 23, 2015 by George Crump

Copy Data is a term used to describe additional copies of production data that are created to feed other processes in the organization. Functions like backup, disaster recovery, development, test as well as reporting and analytics all need copies of…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability, Test/Dev
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Briefing Note: Catalogic releases Zero-Touch Copy Data Solution

Posted on February 11, 2015 by George Crump

If primary data is growing, the copies made of that data are exploding, with a growth rate expected to be 10X that of primary data. These copies are most often used for data protection, test/development, compliance, archive, and analytics. Fortunately,…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015

Posted on February 11, 2015 by George Crump

Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…

What’s causing the Copy Data Explosion

Posted on February 9, 2015 by George Crump

Remember back when companies had copy machines in every department? Making copies was a tedious exercise that probably wasted more paper than anything else. But for the IT department, creating copies (data copies) is a far more serious problem, one…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Webinar: Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…

Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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Storage, Data Protection and Data Insight All-In-One

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Colm Keegan

If knowledge is power, then DataGravity’s solution offering may be a way for businesses to tap into that power. During Day 2 of VMworld, we sat down with the folks from DataGravity to discuss how their “data aware” storage platform…

Tagged with: Compliance, Data Governance, Data Protection, DataGravity, Storage
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