In our column, “What’s Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, my colleague George Crump discussed how cloud storage can be a cost effective alternative to onsite storage for active data, but where cold data is concerned it becomes a…
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Why Tape still matters today
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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Is Deduplication Useless on Archive Data?
One of the techniques that storage vendors use to reduce the cost of hard disk-based storage is deduplication. Deduplication is the elimination of redundant data across files. The technology is ideal for backup, since so much of a current copy…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, Disk, dr, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Tape
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Hybrid Cloud Backup 2.0
Regarding backup and disaster recovery, the cloud is ideal for getting data off-site. It is also ideal for disaster recovery thanks to the many Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings on the market. The cloud is appealing because for…
Backup is not Archive
In order to protect their data while dealing with explosive data growth, many organizations have started backing up their data to the cloud in an effort to reduce their storage and data center costs as well as obtaining data redundancy…
Cloud in a Box – The On-site Cloud
While many companies are still developing their cloud strategy, others have jumped in with both feet and have moved most of their unstructured data to the cloud. These are organizations in the media and entertainment, online application provider, scientific processing…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Crossroads, Fujifilm, Legacy, NFS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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What’s better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data?
The low upfront cost of cloud storage has great appeal. Almost any organization can purchase 100TB of storage instantly and only make the initial payment (month, quarter, and year). However, there is a problem with cloud storage that most cloud…
What is Archive Anyway?
In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
What Killed Archive?
The case for implementing an archive strategy is impressive, move the inactive 80% of data that hasn’t been accessed in the last year off of production storage to an archive store. An archive solution is less expensive, requires less power,…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Complexity, Crossroads, Data Preservation, Fujifilm, Migration
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The role of Tape in Primary Storage Data Protection
Recently I discussed how primary storage, thanks to the use of replication and snapshots, can take a larger role in the data protection and application recovery process. We call this the “Primary Storage Data Protection Strategy”. But, to be effective,…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Primary Storage, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots, Tape
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Free Disk? No Thanks
This morning I am flying to New York City to attend Fujifilm’s 6th Annual Global IT Executive Summit. The theme of this year’s event is, “into Tomorrow with Tape Technology, Preserving and Protecting Critical Data”. This is a data protection…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Data Retention, Fujifilm, Recovery, Tape, Unstructured data
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