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SlideShare: Cut Disaster Recovery Expenses – Improve Recovery Times

Posted on May 8, 2017 by George Crump

4 steps for more affordable, effective disaster recovery Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication
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What Does The Next Generation of DRaaS Look Like?

Posted on May 3, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions are inundating the market. Most vendors added the feature to their existing solutions as an afterthought by including the cloud – not integrating it. But DRaaS is maturing and customers are looking for…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, performance, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery
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Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note

Posted on April 27, 2017 by George Crump

The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Encryption, FC, ISCSI, NFS, Replication, S3, SMB, Virtual, VTL
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How To Cut Your DR Expenses

Posted on April 25, 2017 by George Crump

One of the reasons why disaster recovery attempts often fail is DR process planning and operation is so expensive. The expenses associated with the DR process leads organizations to try to cut corners in an effort to reduce costs. That…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication, VM
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How to Tame Data and Storage Sprawl with a Cross-Cloud Data Fabric

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Joseph Ortiz

Over the last decade, the modern data center has evolved into a complex, virtualized environment that hosts many different types of applications ranging from legacy applications to new next-gen applications, while also struggling to securely store, manage, and monetize the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SSD, Storage Sprawl
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What’s Wrong with DRaaS?

Posted on April 21, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Many people feel DRaaS is the next wave in data protection. Just like flash solves so many problems in the primary storage world, DRaaS solves a ton of problems in the backup and DR worlds. And it does all that…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Flash, Replication
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How to Solve Storage Challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Centers – Kaminario Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2017 by George Crump

The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to be a $117 billion dollar market by 2019. While most of these solutions incubate in the public cloud, successful SaaS providers reach a point where the disadvantages of renting the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, Replication, SaaS, Scale, Snapshots, SSD
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Webinar: Cut Disaster Recovery Expenses – Improve Recovery Times

Posted on April 11, 2017 by George Crump

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication
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Datrium Adds Data Protection Features – Datrium Briefing Note

Posted on April 4, 2017 by wcurtispreston

What if you could have the performance advantages of local flash storage and the data protection advantages of hyperconverged infrastructure without the limitations of either? That is the goal of Datrium DVX, a unique product to say the least. We…

Tagged with: Compression, Datrium, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVRAM, Replication, Snapshot
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StorageShort: How To Meet RPO/RTO Expectations

Posted on March 10, 2017 by George Crump

Organizations must meet increasingly strict recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Essentially they want their applications back up and running as soon as possible with minimal data loss. To meet these challenges IT professionals have to increase…

Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, RPO, RTO
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