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How does Data Loss Happen and How can it be Stopped?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by George Crump

A recent blog by B&L Associates brought to light the problem of data loss. The entry cites surveys from Kroll Ontrack and EMC, which indicated that organizations see data loss as their single most significant risk and that the cost…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Data Loss, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Protection, Replication, Snapshots, TechTarget
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SlideShare: How Snapshots CAN be Backups

Posted on March 23, 2015 by George Crump

Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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Bacula Enterprise is changing the definition of Open-source Backup Software

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Eric Slack

For many in IT, the term “open source software” conjures images of inexpensive but powerful programs that require a lot attention to keep running. They’re often a better fit for organizations with more time than money; unfortunately, most organizations don’t…

Tagged with: Bacula, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Deduplication, Open Source, Protection, Snapshot, Virtual machine
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SlideShare – Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements

Posted on March 17, 2015 by George Crump

Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?

Posted on March 13, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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Briefing Note: For Veeam it’s about more than Backup, it’s about Availability

Posted on March 11, 2015 by George Crump

Data protection is about much more than the successful completion of backup jobs. While the backup part of the process has value, its role has shifted to providing point-in-time versions of data instead of being the primary point of recovery.…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Protection, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Veeam
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Briefing Note: What does Dell see in Exablox’s Scale-out NAS?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Eric Slack

Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, Exablox, NAS, Object, Protection, Scale-Out, Snapshot
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Briefing Note: Intronis Reverses Backups and Simplifies Delivery

Posted on March 6, 2015 by George Crump

One task that many data centers would like to get rid of is data protection. Offering it as a service is not only popular with managed service providers (MSP) and value-added resellers (VAR), it also launches many of them into…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Intronis, MSP, Protection, Recovery, VAR
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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…