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Webinar – The five ways your Backup Design can Impact Virtualized Data Protection

Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge

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Storage Q&A: Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?

Charlie: I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to talk about one of our recent webinars; “How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup”. We had a large attendance for

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Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure

As a seasoned IT backup administrator recently said on a Storage Swiss webinar, “Avoid hearing the footsteps…”. This IT pro was referring to the unpleasant situation when folks from the C level suite start milling around outside your office waiting

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Podcast – How to Keep Virtualization from Breaking Your Backup.

Our podcast guests are Kevin Russell, VP of Systems Engineering at ExaGrid, and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to discuss ways to efficiently backup data is a virtualized environment. Click below for our webinar with Kevin and Storage Switzerland’s

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Podcast – Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?

In this podcast, I interview one of Storage Switzerland’s Senior Analyst Colm Keegan and our Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump to talk to them about our on demand webinar “Is Server Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup”. After all he has

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Are Disk Backup Appliances Ready For a Virtualized World?

Data protection in a virtualized world can be a daunting issue. Advanced backup capabilities like changed block tracking (CBT) and data in place recoveries from backup storage are creating new demands which are heavily taxing already overburdened backup appliances. Left

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How Data Deduplication Impacts Recovery

Data deduplication has become a standard offering in backup product portfolios. As a technology that has been mainstream for over five years, some IT decision makers may tend to treat deduplication as an afterthought. In actuality, how data deduplication is

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Are You Designing Backup for the Future or the Past?

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

Will your backup infrastructure look the same today as it will next year or the year after that? Or are you anticipating that due to the pressures brought on by growing virtualized server environments and its associated data growth, that

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Webinar – How Server Virtualization Is Breaking Disk Backup

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

Disk Backup Appliances have traditionally featured deduplication as the primary selling point. While efficiently storing protected data is critical, the ability to scale your systems to meet rampant data growth – while maintaining backup windows and meeting recovery objectives –

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How Backup Disk Architecture Impacts the Backup Window

Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in

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