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Storage Short: The problem with Mutual Mystification and Backups

Posted on October 30, 2014 by George Crump

While many webinars focus on a specific technology, few focus on the process. If the data protection process is broken, a new backup or replication app will at best just be a band-aid that is destined to break the next…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Synnex
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Cloud Integrated Backup and DR

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Colm Keegan

The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Latency, Recovery, Restoration, Storage
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SlideShare – Four Assumptions that are killing your Backup Storage

Posted on October 24, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
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Storage Q&A: Data Protection intelligence with HP and StorageSwiss

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Backup and Recovery are vitally important to what we do in the Data Center. We can’t lose data and if something happens, we MUST get them back and you have to recover them fast. To help you have success in…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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Backing up the Agile Data Center

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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What is Copy Data?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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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…

Storage Short: Deduplication is NOT a Checkbox item

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Eric Slack

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…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
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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…

Is Dedupe Overrated?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Eric Slack

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…