Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for…
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Webinar: How to Create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan that Actually Works
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Solving the Storage Problem of Data Center Modernization – Datera Briefing Note
A decade ago when cloud providers like Amazon entered the market, they redefined how to provision IT services. These services provided self-service capability that raised the bar for how users and application owners wanted to interact with IT. The mission…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Datera, Flash, Replication, Scale, Software Defined, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Posted in Briefing Note
ChalkTalk Video: How to Scale Up and Scale Out Backup
Organizations are asked to store unprecedented amounts of data. Protection of this data to a secondary storage device and replicating it off-site is critical. For most organizations, the capacity requirements of secondary data, data used for backups and other purposes,…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, NAS, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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Why Scale-Out Architectures Break Backup
In a recent blog, we discussed how scale-up architectures break backup, forcing customers into expensive and disruptive forklift upgrades. Scale-out architectures are the logical solution to the scale-up challenge. But, scale-out architectures create problems of their own. IT planners need…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, RAID, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Hybrid IT Changes Disaster Recovery
It used to be that organizations consolidated all data into one location. All a disaster recovery planner had to do, which was still no easy task, was get that data backed up and get a copy sent to an off-site…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Replication, SaaS
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ChalkTalk Video: HCI is Not Backup
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendors have gotten into a bad habit of claiming that once an organization implements the HCI solution, they no longer have to worry about backup. While there are components of HCI, (snapshots and replication), that do help…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Endpoint, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, NAS, Replication, Snapshot
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SlideShare: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks
Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Endpoints Break Backup
According to several recent studies, about 30% to 40% of an organization’s data is stored uniquely on endpoints (laptops and devices). This unique data is not stored or backed up anywhere in the data center, and is outside of the…
Managing Data to Manage Ransomware
One of the reasons that data centers are so vulnerable to ransomware attacks is the amount of data that remains accessible on production storage. The reality is that most of this data does not need to be there. Investing in…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Moving the Enterprise Backup to the Cloud – A Step-By-Step Guide
Making sure everything in the data center is properly protected is a common struggle that all data centers face. The cloud, cloud backup, seems like an answer to all those struggles. But, how exactly does IT make the conversion from…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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