When IT defenses are compromised, the organization faces one of two challenges. Either the data is encrypted by a ransomware attack or it is copied to the attacker’s servers. In the first case, assuming data protection is in place and…
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ChalkTalk Video: WannaCry, Snowden, Wikileaks… Is Your Data Next?
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, Encryption, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI
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What if Archive Storage Cost More Than Primary?
Even if archive storage was the same price as primary storage, you’d still want to archive. While most in IT look at archiving as a way to reduce the cost of primary storage there is a lot more to it…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Redundancy, ROI
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The Storage Challenges that Cassandra and Couchbase Create
Traditionally databases are scale up, running on a single powerful but expensive server. Distributed databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are scale-out and run on commodity white box servers, each of which becomes a node in a cluster. Traditional databases are…
The Role of Snapshots in a Backup System
Snapshots are moving to the forefront of many data centers when it comes to data protection. Therefore, it’s important to have a solid understanding of how they work and what to use them for. It’s also very important to understand…
Backup, Replication and Snapshot – When to Use Which?
“Backups.” It’s the universal term used to describe a much broader set of tools that make up the entire data protection process. There are varying degrees of data protection offered as features of RAID, backup, replication and snapshots. And each…
Backup vs. Archive
Backup is the process of making copies of an organization’s data so in the event that data was corrupted, erased or becomes unavailable for any reason, IT can use the copies to restore it. Backup should have the primary goal…
Google Competes Head-to-Head with Amazon – Google Cloud Storage Briefing Note
Google surprised a lot of people with its very strong offering aimed directly at Amazon S3. It is clear the product managers offering the Google cloud storage product were very familiar with complaints people have about Amazon S3 and are…
What Exactly is Object Storage?
Object storage is a method to store data. Most IT professionals are familiar with the more traditional Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file system approach. Both are a way of organizing and storing data on a storage system. POSIX mimics…
Tagged with: Dell, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage, POSIX, Redundancy, Tape, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object: HA w/o the headaches
Some systems are born with high availability, others have it thrust upon them. This seems to be the case when discussing the High Availability (HA) features of traditional NAS systems vs those of object storage systems. HA refers to the…
The value of Global Primary Storage Deduplication
Standard deduplication is the elimination of redundant data on a single storage system. Whether that system is used for backup or primary data, the goal is to put as much data as possible on a single storage system so that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Global Deduplication, Permabit, Redundancy, Test/Dev, Thin provisioning, WAN
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