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Meet The CEO: ClearSky Data’s Ellen Rubin

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear ClearSky Data’s CEO, Ellen Rubin, share her perspective on how combining the cloud and the edge can help IT professionals to mitigate – or to eradicate entirely – physical storage management duties.…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
Posted in Webinar

Data Protection Versus Hyperconverged Data Protection

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As applications’ data protection requirements become more unique, many enterprises are considering a hyperconverged data protection solution so they can “just drop in” a node to meet expansion needs. While at the surface this sounds like an agile and simple…

Tagged with: Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Retention, VDI, Veritas, Virtualization
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MeetTheCEO: Cloud Daddy’s Spencer Kupferman

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As businesses migrate more of their data and applications to the cloud, a more comprehensive and mature disaster recovery implementation is required. Cloud service providers have built a base layer of data protection capabilities that focus primarily on enabling recovery…

Tagged with: AWS, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Attack, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Malware, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
Posted in Webinar

How to Make One Thousand Snapshots Useful

Posted on June 13, 2019 by George Crump

Almost every modern storage system claims to support “thousands” of snapshots of production data without impacting performance. While some of the lack of performance impact claims have proven to be suspect, there is little doubt that today’s storage solutions support…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Blog

The State of Server Virtualization: Summer 2019

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The “software-defined data center” (SDDC) is hailed by many as the data center architecture of the future – promising to bring new levels of hardware utilization and a simplified, public cloud-like user experience on-premises. Previously, Storage Switzerland detailed the key…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DAS, Data Protection, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Worried About Meeting Disaster Recovery SLAs? Consider These Capabilities

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data protection infrastructures face tremendous pressure. Copy data is growing even faster than production data as businesses create copies to support analytics, test and development, and other important initiatives. Copy data also needs to be retained for longer periods of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Blog

How to Modernize the Data Protection Architecture

Posted on June 6, 2019 by George Crump

Modernization of various components and processes within the data center is a popular topic with IT professionals. One area of concentration is the data protection architecture. Advances in both software and hardware promise to dramatically reduce recovery times while at…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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The State of the Software-Defined Data Center

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The concept of the “software-defined data center” (SDDC) emerged around 2012, and since then the term has been adopted by nearly all vendors and heavily debated by analysts. While some argue that it is nothing more than a “marketecture,” and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, CSP, Data Protection, Scale-Out, SDDC, SLA, Software Defined, TCO, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

Can the Cloud Cut Data Protection Costs?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data protection, including backup and disaster recovery, has always been expensive and a hassle. In fact, it was so much of a hassle that some organizations did not protect their applications. This was because they considered that the cost and…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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You Will be Breached – What’s Next for Recoverability?

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As ransomware variants grow in number and sophistication, it is practically inevitable that enterprises will be breached. Users are becoming more aware, but eventually there will be some users in the enterprise that click on something they shouldn’t. At the…