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Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump — Leave a comment

The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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Windows File Services – All Good Things Must Come to an End!

Posted on July 18, 2019 by George Crump

Windows File Servers are popular for a number of reasons. First, they are easy to setup, any Administrator that has stood up a Windows Server can create a Windows File Server. Second, the software is essentially free with most licensing…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Why Self-Protecting Production Storage at the Edge?

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises are relying more and more on edge data centers to collect and process critical data in real time. Increasingly, edge data centers require bare metal-levels of performance – but at the same time, these important data streams must be…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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SlideShare: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 12, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, application owner and users all have much higher expectations of IT than ever before. They expect IT to recover real-time data instantaneously and recall aged data very quickly. These expectations mean that backup architectures are getting stretched at both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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Scale Computing Addresses the Edge, Unveils VDI-in-a-Box

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Autonomous HCI that Removes the Need for Infrastructure Expertise IT teams are pressured to oversee a larger amount of data center infrastructure. Enterprises are becoming more distributed and they are embracing a growing number of edge locations that oftentimes do…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Disaster recovery, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Replication, Scale Computing, VDI
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Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform Briefing Note

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Always-On and Optimized Data for the Hybrid Cloud Enterprise storage environments have become so complex that they are very difficult to protect and manage. Data is being created so quickly and it is being captured on such a wide range…

Tagged with: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cyber Treat, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Replication, Veritas, Virtualization
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Is it Time for All-Flash Backups?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Businesses today are all about “agile.” For storage professionals, this means delivering ultra-low latency alongside high throughput and high input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) to accelerate mission-critical application performance as much as possible. All-flash storage arrays have solidified their…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HDD, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, SSD, Veeam
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Kasten Data Protection and Mobility for Stateful Kubernetes

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Serving Enterprise Data Management for Production Container Environments at Scale Containers have a role in enterprise data centers beyond their initial concentration in DevOps use cases. In order to support production workloads such as relational databases, the container environment must…

Tagged with: Application Centric, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Kasten, Migration
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Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…