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SlideShare: Hitting Your Data Protection Sweet Spot

Posted on October 27, 2017 by George Crump

The data protection process sometimes has objectives that seem to be in opposition to one another. On one side, the organization needs rapid and frequent data captures so that RPOs and RTOs are met. On the other side, there is…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
Posted in Slideshare

Ceph: Roll Your Own or Turnkey?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Ceph offers an open source storage alternative to those who need object, block, and file services. Initially developed at UC Santa Cruz and funded by a number of government agencies, Ceph has grown into a very interesting solution for a…

Tagged with: CEPH, Cluster, Concurrent, Migrate, Open Source, Replication, Scale, SDS, TCO
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Is it time to Re-think Unstructured Data Protection and Retention? – Aparavi Briefing Note

Posted on October 25, 2017 by George Crump

Data is growing and most of that growth is unstructured data (machine data, files, images, etc …). That’s not surprising to any IT professional, but what is unnerving is the rate of that growth and the fact that the growth…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Cyber, Object Storage, Replication, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note

Webinar: Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals – Three Capabilities to Look For

Posted on October 25, 2017 by George Crump

The sixth year of Amazon RE:Invent is almost upon us (November 27 to December 1 in Las Vegas). In this webinar listen to Storage Switzerland, Avere Systems and SwiftStack for a storage professional’s guide to the event. Learn about: The…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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How Can DRaaS Backup Performance Be Different?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a great way for an organization to start its cloud journey, and the first part of that journey starts with a backup. Data has to get to the cloud before it can be…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VM
Posted in Blog

How to Implement Replication for Rapid Recovery

Posted on October 19, 2017 by George Crump

For organizations needing to protect mission-critical critical systems, software-based replication is an ideal way to meet and potentially exceed expectations. In fact, replication can be implemented so cost effectively that the scope of coverage can extend beyond mission-critical systems and…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
Posted in Blog

Webinar: 3 Steps to Stop Data Protection Sprawl

Posted on October 19, 2017 by George Crump

Most enterprises have little confidence in their ability to recover data in the event of a data center failure, storage failure, ransomware attack, or natural disaster. There is too much data to protect and user expectations of rapid recovery are…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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StorageShort: Disaster Recovery – Secondary Site vs. Public Cloud

Posted on October 17, 2017 by George Crump

During a disaster everyone needs a place to go, including an organization’s applications and data. Ideally that “place” is prepared. For decades the only real decision for IT was just how prepared would the DR site be? Options ranged from…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
Posted in StorageShort

Look Before You Leap into DRaaS – Scale Computing Briefing Note

Posted on October 13, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves a lot of problems for IT professionals trying to prepare their organizations to survive a disaster. At the same time, though, it also creates new challenges that need to be resolved prior to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DRaaS, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, SMB, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

NetApp Holds Annual Conference Amidst Mandalay Bay Shooting

Posted on October 12, 2017 by wcurtispreston

If NetApp handles its business as well as it handled Insight 2017 – held in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas – NetApp will do just fine. The conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, went…