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Video: Reintroducing Tape to Disaster Recovery
Previously, Storage Switzerland blogged about the merits of employing a tape storage hierarchy to cut backup storage costs. Tape media can furthermore add value as a tier in the broader disaster recovery strategy, as well. As Lead Analyst George Crump…
How is Consumption-based IT Different than Cloud Services and Leasing?
Modern businesses are storing a greater volume and variety of data, and they are looking to get more out of that data – accessing it more frequently and analyzing it in greater depth to facilitate better decision making. Against this…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, SLA, Veeam
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Why Data Protection-as-a-Service is Unpredictable
Economic unpredictability is the most significant challenge associated with data protection. The pool of data that must be protected continues to grow exponentially, and meanwhile, recoveries must be nearly instantaneous. Our previous blog discussed the challenges inherent in meeting these…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Keeping Up With the Data Center, Modernizing Data Protection – Veeam 9.5 Update 4 Briefing Note
The data center continues to evolve, and data protection has to keep pace. Organizations want to intelligently leverage cloud resources to augment their on-premises data protection capabilities, and they need to respond to increased scrutiny of protected copies from regulations…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, GDPR, Hybrid, Object Storage, Retention, Veeam
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The Impact of Unpredictable Data Protection
Most production IT projects are planned months, if not years, in advance of deployment. However, advanced planning of infrastructure upgrades for the data protection architecture seldom occurs. The problem is that updates to the backup infrastructure can often be expensive…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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In Memoriam – Jon Toigo – The Master of Disaster
Last week a legend in backup, disaster recovery, and data storage passed; Jon Toigo. My first foray into storage was thanks to Jon. His 1989 book on disaster recovery launched me into the world of data protection and high availability.…
Balance Standardization and Flexibility to Optimize DRaaS
The need for disaster recovery is growing as always-on data availability becomes necessary for business continuity. For many organizations, bypassing the expense and hassle of purchasing, deploying and managing dedicated disaster recovery infrastructure through outsourced disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) makes sense.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Centralizing Availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup for Efficient Business Continuity – Arcserve Briefing Note
The majority of organizations are not fully confident in their ability to recover data and workloads in the event of an outage. This is due in part to legacy practices of using a myriad of point product solutions to address…
Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, SLA
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15 Minute Friday: How to Move From Legacy DR to DRaaS
Most data centers still use a legacy DR strategy of replicating or even physically transporting backups to a dedicated disaster recovery (DR) site, or a secondary site owned by the organization. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) delivers a compelling…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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