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Backup as a Service Without Compromise

Posted on October 15, 2019 by George Crump

Protecting an organization’s digital assets is more challenging than ever. Users expect IT to backup all data, retain those backups indefinitely, and be able to recover data quickly with no loss or interruption. At the same time, IT has more…

Tagged with: Baas, Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
Posted in Briefing Note

Meet The CEO of ExaGrid

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

In a very crowded data backup market, ExaGrid has stood the test of time and is one of the premier backup storage solutions on the market. Unlike many of its competitors, ExaGrid’s appliances can work with over 25 backup applications,…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Hyperconverged, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy, Retention
Posted in Webinar

Streaming Recovery vs. In-Place Recovery – Which is Better?

Posted on August 21, 2019 by George Crump

Server recovery from backup typically means copying data from the backup device over the network back to a production storage system or server. In addition to copying the data across the network, the backup software has to extract it from…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
Posted in Blog

How to Increase Backup and Recovery? – Rubrik Briefing Note

Posted on April 16, 2018 by George Crump

For most organizations, backup and recovery is their most fragile process. Any change in the environment can cause the entire data protection house of cards to come crashing down around the well-intentioned IT professionals that run it. The problem is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Hypervisor, NoSQL, Recovery in Place, Rubrik
Posted in Briefing Note

Overcoming Backup Appliance Conventional Wisdom – ExaGrid Briefing Note

Posted on March 7, 2018 by George Crump

There are two key assumptions when it comes to purpose-built backup appliances. First, they must have inline deduplication and second, they will all be replaced by backup software solutions as they add deduplication functionality to their software and start selling…

Tagged with: Backup, CIFS, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy
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ChalkTalk Video: Protecting Mission Critical Applications With Recovery In Place Backups

Posted on February 13, 2018 by George Crump

When it comes to mission critical applications, most organizations count on high availability products to protect their mission critical applications. It looks like this; the mission critical application is mirrored or clustered. It is then backed up and in some…

Tagged with: ChalkTalk, Cluster, HA, Mirror, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication
Posted in Video

2018 SMB Disaster Preparedness Guide

Posted on February 6, 2018 by George Crump

Small to medium-sized businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. They have to deal with a much tighter budget than a larger business, while at the same time having to meet very similar recovery expectations for users.…

Tagged with: BLI, CBT, dr, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Virtualization, VM
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What’s The Best Way To Rapidly Recover Data?

Posted on December 13, 2017 by George Crump

There are more methods to recover data than ever. It used to be that recovery meant loading a tape drive, scanning the whole tape to find the job that had the needed data, extracting that data from the job and…

Tagged with: dr, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots
Posted in Blog

How to Scale Recovery In Place Data Protection – Quest Data Protection Portal

Posted on November 28, 2017 by George Crump

Recovery time and recovery point objectives continue to become more narrow. IT has less time than ever to bring an application back online, and users are less tolerant than ever of data loss. To meet these challenges, IT is turning…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hypervisor, Quest, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

How To Create an Always Predictable Data Center

Posted on June 12, 2017 by George Crump

The modern data center must not only be predictable for normal production operations but also in failed state situations. An “Always Predictable” storage architecture is key to enabling IT to meet the various service levels the organization requires. The Predictable…