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Data Protection is a team effort – Podcast

Mission-critical data protection can make or break your company. You lose certain files and you are in very deep trouble. To talk about mission-critical data protection and its importance is Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Director

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Understanding the Oracle Data Protection Gap

For many, snapshots are the go to data protection method for protecting Oracle databases. They can provide efficient, rapid protection from database corruption with high data integrity. But snapshot data protection has its limitations. First, snapshot copies can become corrupted

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What to Expect from Next Gen Data Protection Solutions – Podcast

Data is changing. Not only is it growing, but it is becoming more valuable. That means backup and recovery is becoming more important. Scott Baker from HP’s Data Protection Division and Storage Switzerland founder George Crump join me to talk

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Data Protection In The Cloud Age

What does the record turntable and a mainframe computer have in common? Plenty, according to Guy Churchward, President of EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division. During EMC World 2014, Guy made an interesting comparison about how both the music industry

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Rethinking Data Protection in the Modern Data Center – Podcast

Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump is a leading expert on data protection. He joins me on this podcast with Stephen Spellicy,  Senior Director, Product Management from HP to talk about how to service level objective driven backups can

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What Is The Data Protection Continuum?

In an era where business end-users have increasingly more options and autonomy for deciding how they will protect their application data, it is critically important for today’s IT organizations to provide more choices. By building a data protection infrastructure that

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Why IT Needs to Offer Data Protection As A Service

Technologies like application virtualization have given end users increasingly more choice in today’s IT marketplace. New business services can be rapidly spun up on-demand, either in the four walls of the data-center or out into a cloud service provider’s (CSP)

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Are MSPs The Solution To CryptoLocker and Ransomware?

In late 2013, a new virus/malware appeared called CryptoLocker. What makes this malware unique is that its maker’s intention is to do more than just infect computers to see how much havoc they can wreak, this one actually wants to

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Podcast – A Toolkit for Comprehensive Data Protection

In our latest podcast, I sit down with Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump to discuss a major project that he is working on in 2014. Storage Decisions and Storage Switzerland are partnering together to bring you a

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Develop A Service Level Objective Driven Data Protection Strategy

Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs 
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.

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