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…
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A Secondary Storage Game Changer? – Commvault Go 2016
Tagged with: Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
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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
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Do you Always Need to Backup?
Typically backup is the copying of data from one type of storage system (e.g. primary storage) into another type of storage system (e.g. backup system) for the purposes of recovery in case the first copy becomes unavailable. This definition works…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, HGST, Object Storage, Ransomware
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Webinar: The Art of Storage Management
Any organization that takes a moment to study the data on their primary storage system will quickly realize that the majority (as much as 90 percent) of data that is stored on it has not been accessed for months if…
Overcoming the Hyperconvergence Planning Problem
Maxta Briefing Note Hyperconvergence is a compelling solution to organizations trying to simplify their virtual infrastructures in an effort to be more “cloud-like”. The technology consolidates storage software into the hypervisor of a virtual infrastructure, eliminating the need for a…
Tagged with: Clones, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, Maxta, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Data Protection Advantages of a Thin Provisioned Filer
A thin provisioned filer is a happy filer – especially from a data protection standpoint. In this context a thin provisioned filer is a filer that has plenty of free space due to older unused files moved somewhere else. Unfortunately,…
Tagged with: Backup, Caringo, Data Protection, Deduplication, Filer, Object Storage, Snapshots, Thin provisioning
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ChalkTalk Video: Infrastructure Aware-Flash: All-Flash is the First Step, not the Final Step
Many vendors position all-flash arrays arrays as the performance cure-all, especially for virtualized environments like VMware and Hyper-V. But flash is actually only the first step, other aspects like connectivity, data protection and disaster recovery need to be considered as…
Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash, Connectivity, Data Protection, dr, Flash, HP, Hyper-V, VMware, VMworld2016
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ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming the Cloud Privatization Problem
The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid, Tegile, Virtualization, VM, VMworld2016
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Copy Data Management is Ready for Prime Time
The data center’s biggest challenge is not dealing with the capacity growth of the primary data set, it is dealing with the growth of the secondary data set. The secondary data set is copies of data it creates from primary…
Tagged with: CDM, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, EMC, Snapshots
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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
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