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Why Scale-Up Architecture Breaks Backup

Posted on May 3, 2018 by George Crump

The backup architecture will likely store 5 to 10 times the amount of data that the primary storage system holds. Additionally, organizations are looking to use backup data for far more than just an insurance copy of data. They want…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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The Hub Problem with Distributed Backup

Posted on May 1, 2018 by George Crump

Protecting data at remote offices and distributed data centers is challenging to say the least. Typically, organizations try to implement backup locally by installing a backup server and some disk or tape. IT then tries to manage the process remotely…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM
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What is IO Acceleration? – JetStream Software Briefing Note

Posted on April 30, 2018 by George Crump

Flash’s first deployment in the data center was often as a cache implementation. A cache is a staging area that holds a small amount of the most recently accessed data. Caching software enables active data to be accessed from flash…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Cloud, Flash, IO Acceleration, JetStream Software, Migration, NVMe, Replication
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Webinar: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks

Posted on April 26, 2018 by George Crump

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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Hyperconvergence is NOT Backup

Posted on April 26, 2018 by George Crump

One of the riskiest claims a vendor ever makes is “we’ve eliminated the need for backup” and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors make this claim frequently. Good data resiliency is not good backup, and in fact, some of the work that…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots
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Why Do Point Products Break Backup

Posted on April 19, 2018 by George Crump

One of the most alarming trends in data protection is the number of different solutions data centers are deploying and managing so they can keep up with the organization’s recovery expectations and budget realities. The demands for rapid recovery are…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Snapshot, Sprawl, TRO
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Enterprises, You Want Object Storage But Not For Objects

Posted on April 13, 2018 by George Crump

The industry has been espousing the merits of object storage for years now and cloud providers have been quick to adopt the technology. The enterprise, on the other hand, is more cautious, partly because the object storage alternative, Network Attached…

Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, file sync and share, Flash, Hadoop, HDD, IoT, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup

Posted on April 5, 2018 by George Crump

For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix it

Posted on March 29, 2018 by George Crump

For most organizations backup, the process of regularly and consistently protecting production data, is fundamentally broken. As a result, these organizations have very little confidence in IT’s ability to recover data at all, let alone promptly. To try to fix…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hyperconverged, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Sprawl
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Stopping High Availability Sprawl – DH2i Briefing Note

Posted on March 29, 2018 by George Crump

Almost every organization has a group of applications that must always be available. The cost of downtime is so significant that IT will want to expend large chunks of the IT budget to make sure they are available. Because of…