The cloud was supposed to be the answer to IT’s backup dilemma; instead, it in some ways has made the situation worse. In this on demand webinar Storage Switzerland and Microsoft Azure have a roundtable discussion on what’s gone wrong…
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The Top 5 Reasons VMware Backups Still Break
Lack of Auto-Discovery Lack of auto-discovery is an issue for most backup solutions. As virtual machines and physical hosts are constantly being added to a VMware environment, many backup applications can’t auto-discover them. This means a new VM can go…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Performance vs. Security vs. Management – How to Solve the Primary Storage Paradox
Applications and users demand unprecedented levels of performance, cyber-threats like ransomware require new levels of security and access control, and organizations are intolerant of any form of downtime or data loss. At the same time, they need to manage data…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, dr, Encryption, Flash, Fragmentation, Migration, RackTop, Ransomware, Replication, Retention
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Webinar: What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups? And How You Can Fix Them Quickly
Backing up VMware successfully has always been a challenge. The introduction of the cloud ever increasing scale of VMware infrastructure continues to give backups fits and makes it even harder. Please join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Current Data Protection Infrastructure Is Broken
Some of the more sizeable shifts in the data center include the move from Mainframes to Open Systems and network computing, the move to client-server computing, and the move to a virtualized server infrastructure. Each of these shifts spawned several…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, SaaS, SLA, Virtualization
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Do You Need to Protect Cloud-Native Applications?
One of the forgotten elements of migrating an application to the cloud is protecting that application and its data. There sometimes is an assumption that the cloud automatically protects itself and for natural disaster protection, that assumption is correct. Most…
White Paper: What if the Cloud Backed itself Up?
Hybrid IT is the standard by which most organizations operate. Protecting both on-premises and cloud-based data sets is more critical than ever. The problem is that protecting these environments require separate software applications. The process for protecting cloud-native applications is…
The State of Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) are supposed to be an organization’s playbook if they need to recover critical data center operations after a disaster. The issue is that in most organizations, the DRP is outdated if it exists at all. Disaster…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data storage device, Deduplication, Dev/Test, dr, DRP, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication
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How to Leverage the Cloud for Unstructured Data Protection
Unstructured data is growing at alarming rates. The growth is the result of not only increased user activity but also by machines and IoT devices. Re-creation of this data isn’t possible. It is a point time capture of sensory data.…
ChalkTalk Video: How to Make DR Testing So Easy You’ll Actually Do It!
Testing the organization’s ability to recover from a disaster is almost as bad as having to go through an actual disaster. As a result, most organization’s don’t have disaster recovery testing as part of its standard workflow. The lack of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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