Disaster Recovery is a complex and fragile process. That is why it is important for IT to simplify that process as much as possible. An area where we are seeing success is how you group applications. While each application will…
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StorageShort: Are You Ready for the New Recovery Time Objective?
As long as there has been applications, there have been applications that need zero, or near zero downtime. These are applications where the life of the organization, or even human lives, literally depend on its operation. There has also always…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Why Would You Put SQL Server in a Container? – WinDocks Briefing Note
There’s no question that containers are growing in popularity, and attendance at this year’s DockerCcon is evidence of that. But the bulk of applications that are moving into containers still tend to be stateless applications without the need for persistent…
Tagged with: Backup, Container, Containers, Docker, dr, Migration, SQL, WinDocks
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How To Cut Your DR Expenses
One of the reasons why disaster recovery attempts often fail is DR process planning and operation is so expensive. The expenses associated with the DR process leads organizations to try to cut corners in an effort to reduce costs. That…
ChalkTalk Video: Are You Fragmenting Your Cloud?
Most data centers today have multiple primary storage systems. Often, each one supports a specific platform or environment and each of these systems are either backed up or archived. The problem is most data centers’ cloud architectures are at least…
Should a Backup Appliance be Part of your Backup Refresh?
Backup needs a refresh to keep up with recovery demands of modern application and increasingly expectant users. They expect an “always-on data center.” IT professionals are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. For many, an always-on strategy is a concept that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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ChalkTalk Video: Best Next Steps for Hybrid Cloud
The first step to the cloud, for most organizations, is backup. They use the cloud as either the primary or secondary backup target, essentially leverage cloud storage as a giant data dumping ground. But this use case totally ignores something…
StorageShort: How is the App Explosion Impacting Backup Service Levels?
Most data centers are reporting a dramatic increase in the number of applications they have to deploy, support and protect. Driving this phenomenon is the improvements in developer tools that created the whole Dev/Ops movement. While most of these apps…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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ChalkTalk Video: When Should You Use High Availability instead of Backup?
Most data centers have some sort of backup strategy where it copies data on a periodic basis, typically once per night, to a secondary storage device and then either replicated or transported to a disaster recovery site. They count on…
What’s Wrong with DRaaS?
Many people feel DRaaS is the next wave in data protection. Just like flash solves so many problems in the primary storage world, DRaaS solves a ton of problems in the backup and DR worlds. And it does all that…
Tagged with: Backup, CDM, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Flash, Replication
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