One of the techniques that storage vendors use to reduce the cost of hard disk-based storage is deduplication. Deduplication is the elimination of redundant data across files. The technology is ideal for backup, since so much of a current copy…
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Is Deduplication Useless on Archive Data?
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, Disk, dr, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Tape
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Hybrid Cloud Backup 2.0
Regarding backup and disaster recovery, the cloud is ideal for getting data off-site. It is also ideal for disaster recovery thanks to the many Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings on the market. The cloud is appealing because for…
The Problems with Cloud DR
The Disaster Recovery (DR) stakes are higher than ever. No longer is being able to recover “eventually” an acceptable strategy. Users and application owners at organizations of all sizes are expecting to be back online within hours, no matter how…
Empowering the Cloud to Manage Non-Flash Data
An all-flash data center can respond instantly to user requests for information, and it requires less power and less physical floor space. The problem is moving to an all-flash storage infrastructure is expensive. However, it can be an affordable reality…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, Flash, infinite io, Latency, Meta-table, Optimization, SSD, WAN
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Webinar: Leveraging The Cloud For DR – Is it Worth It?
As Disaster Recovery pressures mount businesses of all sizes are looking to the cloud to solve their recovery challenges, but can the cloud be counted on when the business needs it most? Listen to George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage…
ChalkTalk Video: Infrastructure Agnostic Business Continuity
IT professionals are being flooded with infrastructure options to solve their business continuity challenges. Do they continue to leverage on-premises equipment and the organization’s own disaster recovery facilities, or should they leverage one of the cloud options? Join Storage Switzerland…
StorageSwiss sits down with MLB Network’s Asset Management group
Case Study – Major League Baseball’s 24/7 Cable TV Network Pushes IT to Extremes Major League Baseball (MLB) has been around since 1869. The first televised game was in 1939 and 70 years later, MLB Network was launched on January…
Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Disaster recovery, Disk, LTFS, MLB, NAS, NFS, Tape, Unstructured data
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Infrascale Launches Cloud Failover Appliance with Complete DRaaS Functionality
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves some important problems that administrators at small and medium-sized organizations face. When done correctly, it can provide a turnkey service that eliminates the need for managing a secondary recovery site and automate the process…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Infrascale, Recovery, Virtual machine
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SlideShare: Preparing for Disasters that will Actually Happen
For most IT Professionals the term “disaster” evokes images of a data center being burned to the ground or going underwater, a situation they have spent a lot of years and dollars preparing for. But there are other types of…
MeetTheCEO: Cloud Backup Provider Datto’s Austin McChord
There has been an unprecedented number of companies entering the cloud backup market in recent years but Datto’s founder and CEO Austin McChord has been at it since 2007. In this MeetTheCEO podcast we learn about McChord and his unique…
Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Storage
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