Last week a legend in backup, disaster recovery, and data storage passed; Jon Toigo. My first foray into storage was thanks to Jon. His 1989 book on disaster recovery launched me into the world of data protection and high availability.…
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Using the Cloud to Integrate Backup and Archive – HubStor Briefing Note
For decades the best practice for backup and archive was to keep the processes separate. The storage hardware products that support traditional backups are typically very different from those that support archive. The software products are also very different and…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Corruption, Data Protection, HubStor, NFS, Ransomware, SMB, Unstructured data
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Can Cloud Backup Fix Backup’s True Problem?
Cloud backup has the potential to ease backup pain while also lowering costs significantly. Most cloud backup solutions tend to focus on lowering costs, but while they claim to simplify operations, many cloud solutions are very similar to their on-premises…
The Problem with Protecting the Distributed Enterprise with Traditional Backup Applications
More and more, data is being generated and processed outside of the traditional data center, for instance across a growing number of remote and branch offices as well as mobile devices and edge sites hosting Internet of Things (IoT) sensors.…
Webinar: Can You Use the Cloud to Backup the Distributed Enterprise?
Today’s enterprise is more distributed than ever. Most organizations have multiple locations with servers, storage, and applications. Legacy data protection solutions either require independent backup in each of these locations or that all the locations backup up centrally to the…
Does Your Application Really Need NVMe Performance?
Most businesses’ workload ecosystems are in a state of transition. There is plenty of buzz about modern workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high-velocity analytics and NoSQL databases as new tools to drive competitive advantage. The reality,…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, ML, NoSQL, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SQL, Western Digital
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Fifteen Minute Friday: Do You Need to Protect Laptops, Office 365 and Salesforce.com?
Most enterprises don’t need convincing to back up their Oracle, MS-SQL, and VMware environments but for some reason, vendors struggle convincing most IT professionals that laptops, Office 365 and Salesforce.com also need backing up. The common misconception is that since…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Endpoint, Infrastructure, Migration, Ransomware
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How to Shrink the Data Protection Investment
The data protection infrastructure seems to be on a never ending growth curve. The organization is constantly buying more storage and software licenses to support the process. The reality is though that there are opportunities to downsize the organization’s data…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Ensuring Data Protection in the Age of Data Sprawl with Cloud Services
Today’s data landscape is massively distributed, due in large part to growth of international businesses. Not only are the number of remote branch office locations growing to enable business to be conducted on a global scale, but also merger and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Disaster recovery, Druva, Recovery, SLA
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Webinar: All in the Cloud – Data Protection Up, Costs Down
Managing and protecting critical data across servers and applications in multiple locations around the globe is challenging. And the more decentralized and complex your infrastructure, the more difficult it is to manage your data. The potential bad news? Data loss,…
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