Database Technology Evolves Beyond Traditional Data Protection For over three decades, relational databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix have been primary databases for core business applications. They are used to store and analyze what used to be…
Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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