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Learn How To Solve Your DR Nightmare in Less Than 30 Minutes!

Posted on November 7, 2019 by George Crump

What is your disaster recovery (DR) plan? Most organizations today do not have a formalized process. When disaster strikes, IT scrambles, hoping to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat. A DR plan prioritizes recovery efforts so that personnel can…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, Veeam, VM
Posted in Webinar

Complexity is Killing Secondary Storage

Posted on November 4, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations only use their secondary storage infrastructure as protection storage. In some cases, this is because the secondary storage hardware only supports the backup use case. Even if the organization selects more flexible secondary storage hardware, it still primarily…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud NAS, Cohesity, Compression, Deduplication, Dev/Test, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note

Product Spotlight: Veeam Availability Orchestrator Version 2

Posted on October 23, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations can no longer count on a “best efforts” disaster recovery strategy. They also can’t afford to take a “recover everything instantly” strategy. IT must balance the recovery requirements of the organization with the realities of the budget to make…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
Posted in Product Spotlight

A Better Convergence for Converged Data Protection?

Posted on October 17, 2019 by George Crump

Converged data protection solutions attempt to manage all backup software and protection storage management operations from a single interface. These solutions also tend to be scale-out, addressing another big backup pain point, scaling and managing the backup repository. The challenge…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Converged, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Migration, Nutanix, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note

Backup as a Service Without Compromise

Posted on October 15, 2019 by George Crump

Protecting an organization’s digital assets is more challenging than ever. Users expect IT to backup all data, retain those backups indefinitely, and be able to recover data quickly with no loss or interruption. At the same time, IT has more…

Tagged with: Baas, Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
Posted in Briefing Note

How to Make HCI Work Like the Cloud

Posted on October 15, 2019 by George Crump

Increasingly, organizations are looking to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify their on-premises architectures to make them more cloud-like. Obvious considerations for IT professionals looking to move to HCI are Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC, Nutanix, and VMware HCI. This writeup is…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LUN, Redundancy, VM, VSAN
Posted in Briefing Note

15 Minute Webinar: Do You Really Need to Consolidate Backup?

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

IT Professionals have been on a life-long mission to find a backup solution that can do everything. The goal is to back up the entire data center to a single backup target, all controlled by a single application. Is it…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
Posted in Webinar

Meet The CEO of ExaGrid

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

In a very crowded data backup market, ExaGrid has stood the test of time and is one of the premier backup storage solutions on the market. Unlike many of its competitors, ExaGrid’s appliances can work with over 25 backup applications,…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Hyperconverged, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy, Retention
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Solving DR’s Two Biggest Failures – Documentation and Testing with Orchestration

Posted on September 24, 2019 by George Crump

During a disaster, there is a lot that can go wrong, and IT needs to expect the unexpected. In most cases though, it is not the unexpected that causes a disaster recovery (DR) effort to fail. The primary reasons that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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SlideShare: Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 13, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…