Only 35% of organizations meet their recovery target. The recovery time gap is not a backup product problem. Recovery fails on configuration, not data — and no backup product can fix what the architecture above it broke. Here is the structural fix.
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Understanding the Recovery Time Gap: Infrastructure vs Backup Solutions
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, marketing, Replication, Security, Technology, testing
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The Three-Generation Disaster Stack
Rick Vanover of Veeam introduced a framework that reframes enterprise data protection: the three-generation disaster stack. Gen 1 is hardware failure, Gen 2 is ransomware, Gen 3 is AI agents corrupting production data. Each generation stacks on the last. Here is what it means for your VMware exit decision.
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Data Protection, Replication, Technology
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VMware Exit: Why DR Readiness Matters More Than the Hypervisor
Most organizations planning their VMware Exit view it as a hypervisor replacement project. That narrow goal hides a larger opportunity: the chance to modernize data protection and recovery. The migration process highlights the failure of legacy disaster recovery strategies to…
Advantages of Real-time Recovery vs. Instant Recovery
The introduction of instant recovery was a significant advancement in data recovery, offering quicker restoration times without real-time replication. However, as data dependence grows, its limitations become apparent. Real-time recovery, exemplified by VergeIO’s ioGuardian, promises reduced RPO and RTO, simplified recovery, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced data availability, setting a new standard in data restoration.
The Problems Using Array-Based Replication for VMware DR
Array-based replication may seem ideal for IT professionals looking to improve their disaster recovery (DR) strategy. It sends an off-host copy of data to a remote site without installing special software in the hypervisor. However, array-based replication is expensive and…
What Are Immutable Backups
Backup software vendors insist on making backup data immutable, so IT professionals are now asking what are immutable backups. Securing backup data is critical since bad actors know the organization will count on their backups to recover encrypted files and…
Reducing Backup Costs Requires Invincible Primary Storage
The cost of the backup infrastructure consumes a large portion of the IT budget. Reducing backup costs requires invincible primary storage that can protect itself. An invincible primary storage system also needs to provide all the services that IT typically…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Enterprise Storage Platform, RAID, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, StorONE
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Lightboard Video: Reimagining Data Recovery
In a recent Lightboard Video, Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and StorageCraft’s Sean Derrington discussed combining the protection of application data and unstructured data. We explained how OneXafe brought some unique methods to the table to enable IT to reimagine backup.…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, SQL, StorageCraft, Unstructured data
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Lightboard Video: Reimagining How to Protect Unstructured Data
In this Lightboard Video, Sean Derrington, Senior Director of Product Management at StorageCraft, joins George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, to discuss the challenges of protecting unstructured data. The problem is particularly tricky in virtual environments where unstructured data…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, SQL, StorageCraft, Unstructured data
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Lightboard Video: Data Protection and Mobility for HCI and the Public Cloud
Organizations are evolving their data centers to be more cloud-like. A significant component of these initiatives is to invest in hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). Organizations are implementing HCI at multiple locations and, at the same time, are moving some workloads to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, HYCU, Hyperconverged, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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