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…
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What is Backup?
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Erasure Coding, RAID, Replication, Snapshots
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What are the Use Cases for Object Storage?
Object storage systems have several unique capabilities compared to other storage systems. They can provide infinite scalability of both performance and capacity, they have integrated and flexible data protection, and they have a strong association of data and metadata. What…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Data Protection, Metadata, Object Storage, performance, Unstructured data
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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…
Creating Private Cloud Storage that you can Actually use
While public cloud storage systems have enjoyed incredible growth and success, these architectures have not yet enjoyed anything close to the same success in the traditional data center. Perhaps it’s because these organizations don’t think they need it, or perhaps…
Do VMs need NAS and why?
Virtual machines (VMs) need file services as much as physical servers need them. Once file services expanded beyond user home directories, administrators started using them for the storage needs of many different types of applications. Besides sharing data between multiple…
Modernizing Enterprise Backup Instead of Replacing it
Unitrends Briefing Note To survive in the latest age of computing, backup products must move beyond backup and begin to embrace business continuity. Today’s companies want to resume business immediately after a disaster, and backup products that work “the old…
What Are the Top 3 Reasons Enterprises Should Consider Object Storage
Enterprises should standardize on object storage for almost all (95 percent of their unstructured data and limit their network attached storage systems (NAS) storage to only the most active data that requires high performance. The payoff to your organization will…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Dell, EMC, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication
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Backing up MongoDB and Apache Cassandra
Datos IO is the first product designed specifically to meet the cloud-scale backup and recovery needs of modern, scalable, non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra (DataStax), and cloud-native databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft DocumentDB and others. These…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, NoSQL, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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The ROI of the Thin Provisioned Filer
The cheapest filer is the one you don’t have to buy. A thin provisioned filer can do a lot more than a standard filer if you implement the concept properly. The investment in technology and processes that allow for a…
Tagged with: Capacity, Caringo, Data Protection, Filer, Object Storage, ROI, Thin provisioning
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Meeting Data Security Demands With Object Storage
Data is the lifeblood of every organization. An organization’s data comprises important information such as customer and financial records, internal processes, marketing tactics and strategies, details of products and/or services that it produces. All of this contributes to an organization’s…
Tagged with: Data integrity, Data Protection, dr, Encryption, HGST, IoT, Object Storage, RAID, Replication
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