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Designing Data Protection for the 100% Availability Perception

Posted on January 14, 2015 by George Crump

Thanks primarily to cloud based services users have been exposed to data centers that are able to offer at least the perception of applications that never go down and data that is never deleted. A simple Google search will reveal…

Tagged with: Availability, Data Protection, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…

Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The average data center creates 8-10 copies of application data for a variety of purposes ranging from data protection to development to analytics reporting. The process to create these copies is inefficient and the cost to store them is expensive.…

Tagged with: Analytics, Consolidation, Copy Data, Data Protection, Delphix, Migration, Replication
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Backup is about Recovery, so is Axcient’s Latest Release

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

There is an overused saying in the data protection market, “it is all about recovery”. I often debate this phrase since no recovery happens if there are not frequent and quality backups being made. But it is fair to say…

Tagged with: Axcient, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Replication, VMDK
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The role of Tape in Primary Storage Data Protection

Posted on January 7, 2015 by George Crump

Recently I discussed how primary storage, thanks to the use of replication and snapshots, can take a larger role in the data protection and application recovery process. We call this the “Primary Storage Data Protection Strategy”. But, to be effective,…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Primary Storage, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots, Tape
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014 – Part 2

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

Every year we look at the articles and other content posted on StorageSwiss.com (this year over 800 pieces) to see which topics generated the most interest. As we mentioned in our blog counting down numbers 11-15, flash storage was one…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash, GRO, MLC, NAND Flash, RPO, RTO, SLC, SLO, SQL, SSD, Unstructured data, VRO
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Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…

News Analysis: Datto buys Backupify for complete Cloud Protection

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

Acquisitions are a common occurrence in the IT market. Most are predictable, but every so often one takes us off-guard. Datto’s acquisition of Backupify falls into that category. But even more rare is this acquisition actually makes sense. Datto is…

Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Managing Snapshots as part of the Data Protection Process

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Three Steps to Backup and Recovery Success”, we discussed service level objectives (SLOs) and how to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Snapshots can play a key role in meeting tight RPOs…