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Why IT Needs to Offer Data Protection As A Service

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Technologies like application virtualization have given end users increasingly more choice in today’s IT marketplace. New business services can be rapidly spun up on-demand, either in the four walls of the data-center or out into a cloud service provider’s (CSP)…

Tagged with: Application, Backup, Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Infrastructure, Protection
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Chalk Talk Video – What is GRO? Geographic Recovery Objective

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Below is our latest whiteboard video featuring George Crump, Lead Analyst. He provides a preview of one of the areas covered in our ongoing series of workshops with TechTarget and Storage Decisions. In fact, Thursday, March 13th we will be in…

Tagged with: Backup, Comprehensive Data Protection, Data Protection, GRO, Recovery, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions
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Backup Needs to Become Adaptive

Posted on March 3, 2014 by George Crump

The foundational component of any data protection strategy is the backup process. It is the backup system’s responsibility to capture and secure data as it changes and then make sure that data can be recovered in a timely manner. But…

Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Data Protection, HP, Metadata, Prioritization, SLA
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What is RPO? – Recovery Point Objective

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Below is our latest whiteboard video featuring George Crump, Lead Analyst. He provides a preview of one of the areas covered in our upcoming series of workshops with TechTarget and Storage Decisions. In fact, Tuesday, September 29th we will be…

Tagged with: Backup, Comprehensive Data Protection, Data Protection, Recovery, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions
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Podcast – A Toolkit for Comprehensive Data Protection

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In our latest podcast, I sit down with Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump to discuss a major project that he is working on in 2014. Storage Decisions and Storage Switzerland are partnering together to bring you a…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Podcast, Protection, Security, seminar
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Develop A Service Level Objective Driven Data Protection Strategy

Posted on January 22, 2014 by George Crump

Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.

Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Protection, Provisioning, Reliability, RO, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?

Posted on December 10, 2013 by George Crump

My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…

Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

As we will discuss in our upcoming webinar, creating a second copy in order to protect important data is becoming increasingly inefficient, a fact driven home by the relentless growth of ‘copy’ data in companies of all sizes. Setting up…

Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps

Posted on December 2, 2013 by George Crump

In this Webinar Storage Switzerland speaks with two IT Managers to discuss the challenges they’re having around data protection and application availability. They tell us how they leveraged Nimble Storage Data Protection Solutions to resolve those challenges. Learn what they…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Data Protection, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SQL
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Can The Enterprise Count on The Cloud For Data Protection?

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Cloud storage has come under increased scrutiny as of late, thanks to several well publicized outages as well as an outright shutdown of one provider. Enterprises are starting to re-think their cloud strategy, even when it comes to data protection. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst examines the state of cloud backup to determine if it is ready to deliver enterprise class protection.