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Storage Q&A: Data Protection intelligence with HP and StorageSwiss

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Backup and Recovery are vitally important to what we do in the Data Center. We can’t lose data and if something happens, we MUST get them back and you have to recover them fast. To help you have success in…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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Will your Converged Infrastructure reduce operational costs?

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Some manufacturers have developed converged offerings that make the deployment of server compute, networking and storage resources more streamlined by pre-integrating each component into a rack enclosure. While this reduces deployment time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ongoing operational…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Scaling Converged Infrastructure can elevate costs

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Converged infrastructures combine the four components of a compute environment – a server, storage, networking and a virtualization platform – in a single system. The concept is to simplify the implementation of a compute environment and maintain that simplicity as…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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What is the cost of Application Downtime?

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Colm Keegan

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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What do RTO/RPO have to do with your Virtualized Environment?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by George Crump

Maintaining the right level of uptime for newly virtualized critical applications is a key requirement for virtualization administrators. In this higher stakes, virtualized world time tested techniques like establishing recovery point and recovery time objectives are as critical as ever. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump helps you design a data protection strategy for VMs that are critical to the business.

Are Converged Infrastructures getting hijacked?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by George Crump

Converged infrastructures are capturing the attention of organizations who are hoping to drive down IT costs while increasing data center agility. As we will discuss in our on demand webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You? – 4 Questions to Ask”,…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Can Joe’s Plumbing benefit from Google and Facebook Storage?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Do businesses really need Facebook or Google like web-scale storage capabilities? After all, these organizations support Exabytes of information on a global scale. Many businesses today are merely looking for ways to lower their total cost of storage ownership (TCO),…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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Backing up the Agile Data Center

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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What is Copy Data?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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SlideShare – 5 ways your Backup Design can impact Virtualized Data Protection

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…