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New Threats Require Better DR – CloudEndure Briefing Note

Posted on June 15, 2017 by George Crump

Despite the rising concerns over cyber-attacks like ransomware, humans are still the number one cause of disasters. We need to look no further than the Amazon “typo error” of 2017 that knocked out service on AWS for proof. According to…

Tagged with: CloudEndure, CloudEnsure, Compression, Data Replication, Encryption, Hypervisor, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, VM
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How SMBs Can Have Enterprise Class DP without Breaking the Bank? – BackupAssist 10 Briefing Note

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Joseph Ortiz

Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) often lack a good backup and recovery strategy, and often do not realize the difference between archive and disaster recovery. They find quality data protection (DP), data retention and disaster recovery difficult to obtain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, BackupAssist, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DP, dr, Encryption, Hyper-V, LAN, SMB, SQL, Tape, VM, WAN
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Webinar: What’s Next in Storage for Managed Service Providers?

Posted on June 12, 2017 by George Crump

How to Move Beyond Backup, to DRaaS, Copy Data Management and Primary Storage The cloud has brought both risk and reward to MSPs. In today’s hybrid cloud world, MSPs must deliver consumption-based, private and public cloud offerings to their clients.…

Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, MSP, Replication
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What is the Data Protection Problem?

Posted on June 7, 2017 by George Crump

Users demand a seamless digital experience. When something goes wrong they expect their data and applications to quickly return, preferably without them ever knowing something went wrong in the first place. For IT this seamless expectation means data has to…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, IoT, Object Storage, Tape, Veeam, Virtualization
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iXsystems’ New TrueNAS X10 and FreeNAS v11.0 Briefing Note

Posted on June 6, 2017 by George Crump

The software defined data center does not mean data centers are free from vendor lock-in. It just means vendors moved the lock from hardware to software. While the software may (not always) provide the organization the ability to mix and…

Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Hyperconverged, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, SDS, SMB, Snapshot, VM
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Where Should Copy Data Reside?

Posted on June 1, 2017 by George Crump

Copy data is getting a lot of attention and solutions to manage it are flooding to market. But a question few of these solutions let you ask is, “WHERE should that copy data reside?” For the most part, they assume…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Latency, MSP, Replication, Virtualize
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StorageShort: The Recovery Paradox – Close Copy vs. Far

Posted on May 24, 2017 by George Crump

One of the challenges to designing a successful disaster recovery solution is where to keep copies of your data. A close copy allows for a rapid recovery in the event of a failure since it is seconds away. But in…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication
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Does Disk Based Backup Require Deduplication Anymore?

Posted on May 18, 2017 by George Crump

Hardware-based deduplication legitimized the concept of backing up to disk. But deduplication alone is no longer as important as it used to be. The problem with hardware-based duplication is the data must be transferred to the backup appliance prior to…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, Flash, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, Tape
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How to Get More from All-Flash Using Software Defined Storage

Posted on May 15, 2017 by George Crump

Flash often makes the hardware selection less important, but makes the software selection very important. The right software can not only ensure optimal flash performance, but also extend flash implementation beyond the typical high-transaction database use cases and into modern…

Tagged with: Compression, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-V, Latency, MS-SQL, Nexenta, Scale-Out, SDS, Virtualization, VMware
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Deep Dive XtremIO X2 – Dell EMC World 2017

Posted on May 9, 2017 by George Crump

The press releases are out there but they only cover the XtremIO announcement at a high level. It’s time for a deeper dive. At Dell EMC World, Storage Switzerland spent quality time on the XtremIO X2 update. It promises increased…