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Situational Disaster Recovery

Posted on May 14, 2015 by George Crump

In IT there is a tendency to treat all disasters the same, at least from a planning perspective. But the reality is that data is protected in a variety of ways; with snapshots, replication, backup to disk, backup to cloud…

Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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MeetTheCEO Podcast: ExaGrid’s CEO, Bill Andrews

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Join George Crump and I for our latest CEO Podcast with the CEO of ExaGrid, Bill Andrews. Bill talks about how ExaGrid has evolved its solution from a backup appliance with deduplication to a data protection appliance, ideal for recovery…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, MeetTheCEO, Recovery in Place
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Designing Data Protection for the 100% Availability Perception

Posted on January 14, 2015 by George Crump

Thanks primarily to cloud based services users have been exposed to data centers that are able to offer at least the perception of applications that never go down and data that is never deleted. A simple Google search will reveal…

Tagged with: Availability, Data Protection, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Using EMC RecoverPoint to improve DR testing

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the key components of any disaster recovery plan is to verify that plan and make sure it works. The problem is that these tests are expensive, are not real world and are performed infrequently. In this article, we…

Nakivo Delivers Recovery in Place

Posted on October 29, 2014 by George Crump

Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that…

Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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SlideShare – 5 ways your Backup Design can impact Virtualized Data Protection

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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…

ExaGrid delivers Veeam Integrated Disk Backup

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Veeam Backup and Replication brings many advanced data protection and recovery features to virtualized environments. And backup appliances have become a popular way to efficiently store, recover and electronically vault virtualized data for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. The challenge is…

Overcoming challenges when integrating Disk Backup Appliances with Veeam

Posted on September 18, 2014 by George Crump

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

There is a new breed of backup applications that is gaining acceptance in data centers of all sizes, including the enterprise: VM Specific Backup Applications. These solutions were designed from the ground up, with virtualization in mind and they do…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, I/O, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Exclusive Report: Can your Backup Design handle Veeam?

Posted on September 8, 2014 by George Crump

Veeam and data protection applications like it, arm data protection professionals with a new set of capabilities that they didn’t have access to in the past. So powerful are these capabilities that they can justify the acceleration to a 100%…