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No Room in the Data Center – Secondary Storage Needs Cloud Integration – Cohesity Briefing Note

Posted on December 14, 2017 by George Crump

Most data growth in the enterprise is happening because of secondary storage use cases like backup, archive, and data re-use for test/dev or analytics (also known as copy data). In most cases, the capacity of secondary data is 10 to…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cohesity, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Replication
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Protecting MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop – Datos IO Briefing Note

Posted on December 13, 2017 by George Crump

Data center modernization usually includes the organization moving to modern cloud applications like MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop. Like most new initiatives a forgotten element is data protection. These environments are particularly challenging to protect because they are designed to run…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Corruption, Datos IO, Deduplication, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Ready for an All-Flash Comeback – Violin Systems Briefing Note

Posted on December 7, 2017 by George Crump

Violin Systems was one of the first storage vendors to bring an all-flash storage system to market. While the company had early success in the market, a combination of fierce competition and poor management decisions lead to the company filing…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, IOPS, Latency, NVMf, Replication, Scale, Snapshots, SSD, Violin Memory
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Hyperconverged for the Enterprise and the Cloud – Datrium Amazon Product Briefing

Posted on December 6, 2017 by George Crump

Converging compute, storage and networking into a single tier sounds good at first but as the architecture scales and tries to extend into the cloud, problems arise. Most hyperconverged infrastructures are “over-converged.” In most cases, the lowest common denominator is…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Datrium, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Scale, VM
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Cloud Backup? Yes, No or Sometimes

Posted on November 29, 2017 by George Crump

Cloud backup has several advantages over traditional on-site backup and one big negative; the data is no longer stored within the familiar confines of the data center. Even if the cloud backup solution provides robust encryption, many organizations have some…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization, VMware, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: What’s Wrong with Traditional Backup vs The Cloud?

Posted on November 29, 2017 by George Crump

Traditional backup consists of a backup server, which stores copies of production data in a tape library or a deduplicated disk storage appliance. Most of these legacy solutions try to extend themselves into the cloud. The problem is the backup…

Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Scale
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Analysis of Actifio’s Results in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery

Posted on November 28, 2017 by wcurtispreston

The definition of backup is always changing. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. When backups started being stored on disk, the tradition of putting backed up data into a container…

Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IaaS, Object Storage, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis

Posted on November 28, 2017 by wcurtispreston

The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…

Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How Can DRaaS Backup Performance Be Different?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a great way for an organization to start its cloud journey, and the first part of that journey starts with a backup. Data has to get to the cloud before it can be…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VM
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SlideShare: DRaaS – It’s Not Just For Disasters Anymore

Posted on October 13, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions have vaulted to the top of the considerations list for organizations looking to improve their ability to recover from major disasters like hurricanes and floods. But DRaaS solutions are not just for recovery…