Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
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A refresh needed for Disk Backup Appliances
Backup has seen a lot change over the years. Disk has became the primary backup target instead of tape because of its speed and simplicity. And when vendors added deduplication it became even more cost effective. More recently, we’ve seen…
Tagged with: Capacity, Deduplication, disk backup, NEC, PBBA, Purpose Built Backup Appliances
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Storage Short: Deduplication is NOT a Checkbox item
Back in the early 2000s, when deduplication first came to market, it was a new concept and people had no problem asking a lot of questions about it. Fast forward 14 years – now deduplication is almost everywhere and we’re…
Is Dedupe Overrated?
Advanced data reduction technologies are central to the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market segment. They shrink the amount of data that’s actually committed to storage and help make these relatively fixed capacity devices feasible. But data reduction only provides…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, PBBA, Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Recovery, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup
For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Disk, High Availability, I/O, NEC, Recovery, Scaling, Virtualization
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4 assumptions that are killing your backup – Podcast
Right after George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Gideon Senderov from NEC finished their webinar on four assumptions that are killing your backup, we got together in the podcast studio to talk about an intriguing discovery from their presentation. That’s the…
Don’t treat your Backup like an Archive
As the repository of last resort, backups are unique. They essentially store every piece of data in the company, at least all the data that’s worth saving. In order to do this, modern backup systems, which are often disk-based appliances,…
Webinar – Four Assumptions that are Killing Your Backup Storage
Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
ChalkTalk Video – Why in-place upgrades are essential for Unstructured Data Storage
We’re seeing an enormous growth in unstructured data, especially files that are seldom used but must still be saved. The question is where to put them. An object-based architecture is a widely talked about option, but the question then becomes…
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