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Briefing Note: Dakota Cloud Recovery – Cloud Backup is about Data Center Quality

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup providers can come in a variety of forms. Some are really backup software developers that happen to leverage the cloud as part of their software solution. These providers count on a generic cloud data center, like Amazon AWS…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dakota, Data Protection, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Recovery
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Using EMC RecoverPoint to improve DR testing

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the key components of any disaster recovery plan is to verify that plan and make sure it works. The problem is that these tests are expensive, are not real world and are performed infrequently. In this article, we…

DRaaS requires new questions

Posted on September 8, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent column “DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App” my colleague Eric Slack predicted that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will become the predominant cloud offering. I agree, DRaaS is almost too compelling for many organizations to…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Software as a service
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Four Requirements for adding DR-as-a-Service to VMware

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

For years, organizations have struggled with maintaining functional disaster recovery capabilities for their most critical business systems. The capital investment for redundant hardware, software and data center infrastructure, along with the personnel time required to ensure that business applications are…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, EMC, Hypervisor, Provisioning, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, VM, VMware
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DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Eric Slack

Disaster Recovery could be the best implementation of the ‘as-a-Service’ business model yet because it fits the cloud delivery system so well and features an entirely different value proposition than other cloud services. DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offers more than the added…

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Baas, Backup as a Service, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, SaaS, STaaS
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Chalk Talk Video – DR-as-a-Service: Compliant DR Protection for the Mid-Market

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Most of the disasters that befall a company aren’t hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or acts of terrorism. Most IT disasters are simply unplanned downtime of critical servers. While these are a lot less dramatic, and a lot more common, they can…

Tagged with: Backup, ChalkTalk, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, Quorum, Storage Switzerland
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DR-as-a-Service: Compliant DR Protection for the Mid-Market

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Eric Slack

There is no shortage of stories in the IT press about the effects of disasters, like 9/11 or Hurricane Sandy, where buildings are destroyed, data centers flooded, etc. While these are sensational events, for sure, they’re not the types of…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, Hybrid Cloud, Quorum, Virtual machine
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