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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection – Actifio 10c

Posted on December 17, 2019 by George Crump

Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Egress Fees, Migration, Object Storage, RTO, Snapshots, VM
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Veritas Flex 5150 Briefing Note – Solving the Edge Data Center Protection Challenge

Posted on November 7, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are no longer all centrally located at a single headquarters. They are not even a collection of three or four locations. Instead, the modern organization can have dozens of sites. In specific industries like retail, these organizations can have…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Edge Data, Hybrid, IoT, Ransomware, Redundancy, SaaS, Veritas
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Backup as a Service Without Compromise

Posted on October 15, 2019 by George Crump

Protecting an organization’s digital assets is more challenging than ever. Users expect IT to backup all data, retain those backups indefinitely, and be able to recover data quickly with no loss or interruption. At the same time, IT has more…

Tagged with: Baas, Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
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How to Meet the New Data Protection Requirements

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Data protection, specifically the backup process, is a foundational element of most data center architectures. The requirements of that foundation though are shifting from an insurance policy that the organization hopes it rarely needs to an active component of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Dell, EMC, Hybrid, Migration, Retention, Scale-Out, Test/Dev
Posted in Briefing Note

Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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Looking for a Better Hybrid Cloud Strategy?

Posted on July 30, 2019 by George Crump

When a company begins its cloud journey, they often assume they need to move everything to one of the “big 3” (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute). Many organizations want to maintain control of their data and leverage only…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Egress Fees, File Virtualization, IOPS, Madison Cloud, OPEX, Scale, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Protecting the Multi-Cloud Data Center Without Losing Your Mind

Posted on July 23, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-cloud isn’t a future architecture, it is a reality right now. Organizations have on-premises clouds (virtualized infrastructures) and are hosting applications in multiple cloud providers. The problem is the multi-cloud situation these organizations find themselves in is ad-hoc, not part…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, HYCU, Migration, Replication, SQL, Virtualization
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Why Self-Protecting Production Storage at the Edge?

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises are relying more and more on edge data centers to collect and process critical data in real time. Increasingly, edge data centers require bare metal-levels of performance – but at the same time, these important data streams must be…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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SlideShare: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 12, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, application owner and users all have much higher expectations of IT than ever before. They expect IT to recover real-time data instantaneously and recall aged data very quickly. These expectations mean that backup architectures are getting stretched at both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Slideshare

Struggling with Data Privacy? Consider Intelligent Data Management

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Regulations have proliferated beyond a concentration in a single industry (such as the financial community) or geographical region (such as Europe). Companies do business globally, and the importance of data is causing new regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act…