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Briefing Note: Zerto brings Hypervisor-to-Hypervisor Replication

Posted on May 8, 2015 by George Crump

Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a…

Tagged with: Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Zerto
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Analyst Blog: Cloud Storage is only as Risky as you make it

Posted on March 20, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, File Sharing, Hybrid
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Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
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Cloud Backups – Purpose Built vs. Public Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

Leveraging the cloud as part of the data protection process is increasing in popularity, and with that popularity come a lot of options for IT planners to sift through. One area of consideration is the cloud destination. There is a…

Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Backup is about Recovery, so is Axcient’s Latest Release

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

There is an overused saying in the data protection market, “it is all about recovery”. I often debate this phrase since no recovery happens if there are not frequent and quality backups being made. But it is fair to say…

Tagged with: Axcient, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Replication, VMDK
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What is Hybrid Cloud Backup?

Posted on December 16, 2014 by George Crump

One of the key challenges to any data protection strategy is deciding where to store data and how to get that data off-site. Initially in most environments, all backups were stored on tape. Those tapes were then packaged up and…