What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…
Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump tells you how you can learn how to not only keep your IT job, but to get a promotion. It all centers around a detailed disaster recovery and data backup plan for…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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