In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey that swept Southern Texas last week, colocation facilities and companies with data centers in the region (and elsewhere) are faced with the stark reality that a strong data center and disaster recovery plan is…
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Webinar: From Disaster to Recovery: What Hurricane Harvey Means for your Data Center
Tagged with: Colocation, Data center, Disaster recovery, dr, Hurricane, Preparation, Primary, Recovery, Uptime Institute
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What’s Next in Storage: Cloud to Cloud Data Movement
The writing’s on the wall. Eventually almost every organization will use cloud storage in one form or another. While the use cases may range from production applications to backup, the economics may be too appealing for an organization not to…
SlideShare: What’s Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and How to Fix it
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to…
Webinar: What’s Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and How to Fix it
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to…
Storage Challenges can Dunk Splunk Projects
Don’t get caught unaware of the storage challenges of your future Splunk project. If nothing else, at least be aware of the amount of storage that a Splunk project can generate and prepare yourself for the cost of acquiring and…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, ClearSky, Disaster recovery, Latency, Machine-generated, Splunk
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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services
Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hypervisor, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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The Rubber Hit the Road: Stolen Laptops and iPads
Mr. Backup had his MacBooks and iPads stolen this week. (That’s the end of me referring to myself in the third person.) I’ve told the story dozens of times this week, but here goes. I went to dinner in Houston…
Recovering from a Hurricane
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) should be relatively generic with a design that allows it to survive a data center outage of any type. But each type of disaster requires a unique response. At the Storage Decision’s “Modernizing Your Disaster Recovery…
Multi-Tenant Docker Storage Containers
Briefing Note: Zadara Storage Corporate IT is transitioning to an “As a Service” model. That is because the as a service model is not just isolated to the cloud – there are plenty of on-premises service use cases as well.…
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, Flash, Multi-Tenant, QOS, SSD, Zadara
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Responsiveness: THE Storage Watchword for 2016
In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can…
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Next Generation, SDS, Software Defined
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