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Chalk Talk Video – DR-as-a-Service: Compliant DR Protection for the Mid-Market

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Most of the disasters that befall a company aren’t hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or acts of terrorism. Most IT disasters are simply unplanned downtime of critical servers. While these are a lot less dramatic, and a lot more common, they can…

Tagged with: Backup, ChalkTalk, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, Quorum, Storage Switzerland
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What Does Software-Defined Mean For Data Protection?

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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…

Video – How The Data Protection Workshops Can Get You Promoted

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Data Protection Workshop, George Crump, Storage Switzerland, Tech Target, Workshop
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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.