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Take “Create DR Plan” OFF of Your 2020 Project Goals

Posted on December 18, 2019 by George Crump

If disaster strikes, the purpose of a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is to guide the available IT personnel through the process of recovering the data center, either at an alternate site owned by the company or a facility owned by…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, DRP, iland, Replication, RTO, VMware
Posted in Blog

Amazon EC2 Workloads Need Availability and Backup

Posted on December 12, 2019 by George Crump

There is a difference between availability and backup. Providing a workload with high availability means that if a component of the infrastructure fails, adequate measures are in place to ensure that the use of the workload continues with little or…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Replication, Retention, Snaphots, Veeam
Posted in Briefing Note

Overcoming the DRaaS Time Compromise

Posted on December 3, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) looks great on paper. DRaaS vendors tell organizations that they can eliminate their disaster recovery site and recover on-demand, in the cloud. The potential for cost savings abounds. Organizations have the potential to reduce…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Flash, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Hypervisors, NFS, NVMe, SDDC
Posted in Briefing Note

Purpose-Built versus Consolidated Backup

Posted on December 3, 2019 by George Crump

The number of data protection applications designed to back up a specific application or environment is increasing dramatically. These purpose-built backup applications have an almost unfair advantage over legacy solutions and customers seem more than willing to deal with the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Purpose Built, SQL
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New White Paper: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Data Protection

Posted on November 25, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are already multi-cloud. They almost always have an on-premises cloud that leverages virtualization like VMware or Nutanix AHV. They also typically have some cloud-native applications or have the desire to migrate some applications to the cloud. Data protection continues…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in White Paper

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing? Beware of Backup Software Claiming to provide Cloud Data Management

Posted on November 22, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are already multi-cloud. They often have a cloud-like infrastructure on-premises like VMware or Nutanix. They may also have cloud-native applications based on SQL, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL. Even if the organization doesn’t have a cloud-native application, they may want…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in Webinar

New eBook: The Value of DR Orchestration

Posted on November 12, 2019 by George Crump

Given the pace of the modern data center, creating a disaster recovery (DR) plan is a significant challenge. Keeping that plan up to date after it’s created is almost impossible because of how quickly the data center changes. If a…

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

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

How Does Your 2020 DR Plan Need to Change?

Posted on October 11, 2019 by George Crump

With each passing year, disaster recovery changes. Most of the time, those changes relate to faster and faster recoveries, as well as protection from net threats like ransomware. In 2020 the pressure to recover even faster remains critical, but there…