4 steps for more affordable, effective disaster recovery Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say…
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Datrium Adds Data Protection Features – Datrium Briefing Note
What if you could have the performance advantages of local flash storage and the data protection advantages of hyperconverged infrastructure without the limitations of either? That is the goal of Datrium DVX, a unique product to say the least. We…
Tagged with: Compression, Datrium, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVRAM, Replication, Snapshot
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Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: Four Reasons Why Your Backup Hardware Will Break by 2020
While backup software vendors continue to innovate, hardware vendors have been resting on their deduplication laurels. In the meantime, the amount of data that organizations store continues to grow at an alarming pace and the backup and recovery expectations of…
Are you Asking the Right DR Questions
It’s a really sad thing when a customer gets far down the path of a project and finds out it is going to fail. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve seen this happen. A customer has…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Infrascale, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape
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StorageShort: How To Meet RPO/RTO Expectations
Organizations must meet increasingly strict recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Essentially they want their applications back up and running as soon as possible with minimal data loss. To meet these challenges IT professionals have to increase…
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, RPO, RTO
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DR Ready Storage Must be Space Efficient
One of the biggest criticisms of using primary storage for DR is cost. Primary storage can be expensive, and using it in your DR plan essentially doubles your storage requirement. Therefore, it is essential that DR Ready storage use as…
What is Your Recovery Performance Expectation?
Storage Switzerland works with IT professionals to design data protection and disaster recovery plans. Those conversations always start with a discussion about service level objectives (SLO). Each application or data set should have an SLO, that comes from several very…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Flash, Infrascale, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO
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SlideShare: Does Object Storage Make Sense for Backups?
Everyone understands disk has become the primary target for backups in the last several years. It’s also safe to say that the main type of disk storage used as a target for backups would be a purpose-built backup appliance that…
Got Servers? – Get Storage – NooBaa Briefing Note
One of the requirements facing buyers of software defined storage (SDS) is that, by definition, it still requires hardware. SDS Vendors deliver some solutions in the form of either a dedicated appliance, some offer flexibility by specifying a Hardware Compatibility…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, NooBaa, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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StorageShort: Will Machine Data Kill Backup?
One of the hardest things to protect is a server with millions of files on it. In the early days of my career, we specifically asked customers if they had such a server so we could develop special procedures to…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Hypervisor, IoT, Object Storage, Replication
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