Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…
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Breaking Backup with SaaS
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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How to Design a Modern Data Protection Architecture
Data Protection is changing. Today backup software can recover in-place, instantiating volumes directly on the backup storage which enables organizations to significantly reduce recovery windows. Consequently, the performance of the backup storage hardware matters more than ever. At the same…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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StorCentric Acquires Retrospect – Comprehensive Primary through Secondary Storage Capabilities
The lines between primary and secondary storage infrastructures are blurring. Today’s typical backup and disaster recovery workloads require faster performance while production workloads demand growing amounts of capacity. IT requires as consolidated a storage infrastructure as possible for simplicity. At…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DAS, Disaster recovery, Drobo, EU, GDPR, NAS, Nexsan, RAID, Ransomware, Retrospect, SAN, SMB, StorCentric
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How to Avoid Cloud Pitfalls to Obtain an Infrastructure-Less Backup Strategy
Meeting requirements for infinite data retention and always-on business continuity is, practically speaking, not possible without using cloud resources in some way. On-premises backup and disaster recovery infrastructures are fraught with unpredictable costs and heavy operational overhead. At the same…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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Actifio Data Driven 2019 – What is Digital Transformation and How Do I Get There?
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about digital transformation and the need to harness data for competitive advantage. What we don’t spend enough time talking about is what that actually means in terms of business objectives,…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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Applying the 3-2-1 Backup Rule to Self-Protecting Primary Storage
Primary storage has two key functions, to deliver data as fast as possible to the applications and users requesting it, and to maintain data accessibility in the event of a hardware failure. Primary storage vendors have attempted to expand their…
Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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Meet The CEO: ClearSky Data’s Ellen Rubin
Join us for a unique opportunity to hear ClearSky Data’s CEO, Ellen Rubin, share her perspective on how combining the cloud and the edge can help IT professionals to mitigate – or to eradicate entirely – physical storage management duties.…
Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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Multi-Cloud versus the Five Requirements of Data – Datrium Briefing Note
Organizations need to meet five core requirements of the data they store; encryption, mobility, performance, retention and disaster recovery. To deliver these elements, IT is often forced to use five or more products just for on-premises data, let alone the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Datrium, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, HCI, Hyperconverged, Replication, Retention
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What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?
The public cloud is often described as “just a business model” that provides organizations with the ability to pay for storage and compute resources as they need them. If that were true then the public cloud providers could be easily…
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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How Ransomware and GDPR Break Image Based Backups and How to Fix It
Image based backups, after the initial backup is complete, only backup change blocks within the item they are protecting. The technology enables organizations to frequently backup critical servers and applications. It also enables the protection of file servers with millions…
Tagged with: CCPA, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, Encryption, GDPR, ioFABRIC, Ransomware, Retention
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