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The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality

Posted on June 11, 2018 by George Crump

Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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How to Fix Broken Backup

Posted on May 31, 2018 by George Crump

The single biggest challenge facing backup, ironically has nothing to do with backup. Backup’s biggest challenge is the pace at which the organization evolves and the speed at which it expects IT to keep pace with that evolution. Combine that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, RAID, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Webinar: How to Create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan that Actually Works

Posted on May 30, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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ChalkTalk Video: How to Scale Up and Scale Out Backup

Posted on May 24, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations are asked to store unprecedented amounts of data. Protection of this data to a secondary storage device and replicating it off-site is critical. For most organizations, the capacity requirements of secondary data, data used for backups and other purposes,…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, NAS, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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Why Scale-Out Architectures Break Backup

Posted on May 24, 2018 by George Crump

In a recent blog, we discussed how scale-up architectures break backup, forcing customers into expensive and disruptive forklift upgrades. Scale-out architectures are the logical solution to the scale-up challenge. But, scale-out architectures create problems of their own. IT planners need…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, RAID, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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ChalkTalk Video: HCI is Not Backup

Posted on May 21, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendors have gotten into a bad habit of claiming that once an organization implements the HCI solution, they no longer have to worry about backup. While there are components of HCI, (snapshots and replication), that do help…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Endpoint, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, NAS, Replication, Snapshot
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Why Endpoints Break Backup

Posted on May 17, 2018 by George Crump

According to several recent studies, about 30% to 40% of an organization’s data is stored uniquely on endpoints (laptops and devices). This unique data is not stored or backed up anywhere in the data center, and is outside of the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Endpoint, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Replication, Scale Up
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Hardware Defined All-Flash Arrays for a Software Defined World – Storbyte Briefing Note

Posted on May 16, 2018 by George Crump

While software-defined storage (SDS) captures the attention of the market, enterprise IT professionals know that the hardware still matters. The problem is that while a multitude of SDS solutions have come to market the hardware selection pool is essentially limited…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, ASIC, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, SDS, SSD, Storbyte
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Why Snapshots Break Backup

Posted on May 10, 2018 by George Crump

Snapshots are incredibly popular and a powerful way to protect data. They enable an organization to protect data rapidly without consuming disk capacity until additional changes occur. Most storage systems can also roll back snapshot images for rapid restores and…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note

Posted on May 8, 2018 by George Crump

Today, companies that make up the “M” part of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as small enterprises, have data centers that are 100% or close to 100% virtualized, leveraging VMware as their hypervisor. There are no “teams”…