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Do you Always Need to Backup?

Posted on October 5, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: Capacity, Data management, Data Protection, Retention, Storage
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Overcoming the Hyperconvergence Planning Problem

Posted on September 7, 2016 by George Crump

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

Posted on September 6, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

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

Posted on August 30, 2016 by George Crump

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

Posted on August 29, 2016 by George Crump

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?

Posted on August 23, 2016 by wcurtispreston

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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Open Software Defined Storage takes an Object Storage Step

Posted on August 18, 2016 by George Crump

Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 Briefing Note Software Defined Storage (SDS) continues to attract the attention of IT professionals, but broad adoption is not meeting the expectations IT professionals. Part of the challenge is that while SDS, in theory, breaks…

Tagged with: Cloud, Consistency, Data Protection, NFS, Object Storage, performance, Red Hat, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management Solution

Posted on August 5, 2016 by George Crump

Data centers are drowning in data. The unprecedented growth comes from a variety of new sources like data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as from traditional sources like user data. But the biggest area of data…