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Designing Backup to replace Primary Storage
Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden”…
Hyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity
Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of…
Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyper-converged, Recovery, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
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Podcast: Do you know what High-Value Data is?
High-Value Data is different from mission critical data. Mission critical data ensures the operation of the data center hour by hour. High-value data is critical data that organization has created but is not actively using but still needs to retain…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Protection, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan, Recovery, Retention, Scale, Unstructured data
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Can HPC Storage Solve Enterprise Data Management Issues?
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…
Tagged with: Backup, Clone, DataDirect Networks, DDN, HPC, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Is Tape still Viable for Data Protection?
Is tape for data protection really dead? There are more than a few people in the industry who seem to think so. Even the tape industry often positions tape as being for archiving rather than data protection. Moreover, there is…
Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities
Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, file sync and share, Recovery, SMB, Unstructured data
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MeetTheCEO: Cloud DR Vendor Infrascale’s CEO Ken Shaw
In this week’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and I sit down Ken Shaw, the CEO of Infrascale, a Cloud DR vendor. Infrascale provides backup, recovery and disaster recovery as services. Join in this podcast as we learn about this CEO from…
Securing High-Value Data in Mid-Tier IT
Despite its name, high-value data is often mishandled in many organizations. Often the backup process is counted on to secure and retain this information, but while some of the software has basic archive functionality it was neither intended nor designed…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Protection, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan, Recovery, Retention, Scale, Unstructured data
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Infrascale Launches Cloud Failover Appliance with Complete DRaaS Functionality
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves some important problems that administrators at small and medium-sized organizations face. When done correctly, it can provide a turnkey service that eliminates the need for managing a secondary recovery site and automate the process…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Infrascale, Recovery, Virtual machine
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