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Video: What happens at the Backup 2.0 Workshop?

In this video, we get an example of the in the trenches, real world training provided at the Storage Decisions / TechTarget Backup 2.0 Workshop featuring Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump. Watch this interactive, vendor agnostic, deep

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MeetTheCEO: Druva’s CEO Jaspreet Singh

Recently George Crump and I sat down with Jaspreet Singh CEO of Druva, a data protection software company that provides data center class availability and governance for both the mobile and distributed enterprise. We talk to Jaspreet about Druva’s converged

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Are you paying too much for DR Storage?

We are in the home stretch of the 2015 Backup 2.0 Technical Workshop, a comprehensive day of data protection education. At the workshop, we provide you with specific designs to meet demands for faster recovery and longer retention. Our sessions

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Hyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity

Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of

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For MSPs Cloud Backup is all about Adding Value

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) offering data protection as a service is an alluring option. Most end-user organizations would love to get rid of the backup headache. Unless regularly monitored, data protection is prone to

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The Cloud for Primary Storage – How to get it right

Briefing Note: ClearSky Comes Out of Stealth For many organizations, the thought of letting someone else manage their storage infrastructure is appealing. The cost and time required to acquire, maintain, manage and migrate storage is overwhelming and these organizations are

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ChalkTalk Video: Customer Case Study Using ECX to Manage Copy Data

File data can amount to 80% or more of the data that needs to be protected and managed. For Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, it was a big problem. Stepphon Gayle, their Data Storage Manager, handles protecting more than

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Podcast: Do you know what High-Value Data is?

High-Value Data is different from mission critical data. Mission critical data ensures the operation of the data center hour by hour. High-value data is critical data that organization has created but is not actively using but still needs to retain

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Is Tape still Viable for Data Protection?

Is tape for data protection really dead? There are more than a few people in the industry who seem to think so. Even the tape industry often positions tape as being for archiving rather than data protection. Moreover, there is

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Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities

Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually

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