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Bringing Copy Data Management as a Service to Enterprises – Actifio GO SaaS Briefing Note

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

There is no doubt that production data is growing, but copy data is growing even faster. More data must be backed up as the stricter compliance landscape creates more comprehensive retention requirements, and copy data is being used to serve…

Tagged with: Actifio, CDM, Cloud, CSP, Data Sprawl, dev/ops, dr, Encryption, Migration, MSP, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, SLA, TCO, VM
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Taking The Load off of Networks with Computational Storage

Posted on March 7, 2019 by George Crump

It used to be that the storage media was the slowest component of the storage infrastructure. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. Long before IO leaves the storage system and traverses the network, bottlenecks begin. In fact, the…

Tagged with: Big data, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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Keep Your Disaster Recovery Budget in Check with Object Storage

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Storage managers face the paradox of needing to store seemingly unlimited pools of data for business analytics and compliance, and at the same time enabling recovery of Tier One applications instantaneously and with zero data loss. Against this backdrop, a…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Encryption, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, RTO, SMB, Unstructured data, Veeam
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Object Storage: Two Critical Capabilities To Look For

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Unstructured data continues to grow exponentially in volume, and it is playing a strategic role in fueling business intelligence and analytics. As discussed in a previous Storage Switzerland blog, object storage has emerged as a solution well able to address…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Encryption, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data, Veeam
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Calculating the ROI of Data Protection Service Level Objective

Posted on February 13, 2019 by George Crump

Most data centers try to create a “best efforts” data protection strategy which treats all data and applications equally. Typically the organization uses one backup application, a single backup target device and replicates all data to a secondary site or…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Modernizing Data Management for a SaaS-driven World – Odaseva Briefing Note

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Applications such as Salesforce.com are becoming increasingly data-driven, as businesses seek to harvest and analyze as much data as possible to drive customer satisfaction, maximize productivity of employees, and make more informed business decisions. These applications are delivered through a…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, Encryption, GDPR, IaaS, iPaaS, Odaseva, PaaS, SaaS
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Modernizing Backup and Disaster Recovery with Recovery Zones

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Legacy backup practices are challenged to accommodate the application explosion that is upon us in today’s application-driven economy. Businesses are relying on a growing volume of applications for core, day-to-day processes, and these applications vary widely in terms of their…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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Protection Service Levels – Sometimes OK is OK

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

In my last blog “The Problem with Gold-Only Data Protection Service Levels” we looked at how to design a gold service level for data protection and what the pros and cons of that approach are. In this entry, we look…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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How Holistic Can a Backup Solution Become?

Posted on December 19, 2018 by George Crump

In a recent webinar, “Holistic Disaster Recovery; from Data Center to Endpoint”, Storage Switzerland discussed the concept of end-to-end (or holistic) disaster recovery. One of the questions asked was “How holistic can a backup solution become?” Which, considering that most…

Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Migration, NoSQL, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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StorageShort: The Changing Face of Disasters

Posted on December 14, 2018 by George Crump

When it comes to disaster recovery planning, we tend to focus on grand scale events that impact entire regions of a country. The reality is though that most disasters are smaller in scale. These smaller disasters have a similar severity…