Public cloud storage is highly scalable and very cost effective. It also happens to be located next to an almost infinite supply of compute. Why then do most primary storage vendors pretend the resource doesn’t exist? The answer is quite…
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Predicting WAN Performance – Disaster Recovery’s Missing Link – Apposite Briefing Note
Most storage systems today have the ability to replicate data to another storage system at another site. If the storage system doesn’t have that capability, then there are plenty of third-party software solutions that perform the function. Even if the…
What’s The Best Way To Rapidly Recover Data?
There are more methods to recover data than ever. It used to be that recovery meant loading a tape drive, scanning the whole tape to find the job that had the needed data, extracting that data from the job and…
Three Steps To Ending The Data Protection Nightmare
Recent surveys indicate that over 50% of organizations feel their data protection processes can’t be counted on for consistent, rapid recovery of data. Instead of trying to band-aid the problem, IT needs to develop a holistic strategy. In this “Steak…
What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
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Optimizing Amazon EBS with S3
Primary storage vendors have been slow to integrate the public cloud into their solutions. Most pretend the public cloud doesn’t exist and even the vendors that do provide some level of integration to use the cloud only as a giant…
How To Solve The Three Biggest Backup Problems; Part One Increasing Backup Frequency
“It’s all about recovery” is a favorite mantra of backup marketing material. The truth is that it is not all about recovery. In fact, it is easy to make a case that recovery is the easy part. The actual backup…
ChalkTalk Video: What’s Wrong with Traditional Backup vs The Cloud?
Traditional backup consists of a backup server, which stores copies of production data in a tape library or a deduplicated disk storage appliance. Most of these legacy solutions try to extend themselves into the cloud. The problem is the backup…
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Scale
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How do MSPs Stay Relevant in the Cloud Era? – Datto Briefing Note
The SaaS backup market went from almost non-existent to very crowded in a few short years. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) quickly tried to reposition themselves from selling on-premises solutions to the cloud-based solutions their customers were demanding. Several companies emerged…
What to do When Taking Over a Data Protection Nightmare – One College’s Journey to Simplified Data Protection
Data protection is hard. The process has to, in someway, interact with almost every server, virtual machine, application, network interface and storage system. The problem is many data centers make the situation worse by buying multiple data protection software and…
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