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Webinar: Hitting Your Data Protection Sweet Spot

Posted on September 6, 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 Webinar

Webinar: 5 Keys for Next Generation DRaaS

Posted on September 5, 2017 by George Crump

DRaaS is entering its second phase. No longer is it good enough to simply be able to recover applications in the cloud. Next generation DRaaS has to be able to backup faster, recover faster, include ransomware protection and be able…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VM
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Can You Move Workloads Between VMware and AWS?

Posted on August 31, 2017 by wcurtispreston

vMotion is a fantastic capability provided by VMware to VMware environments, but what if you’re not using VMware? Or what if you’re using VMware on-site, but would like to rehost the workload into a public cloud provider such as Amazon…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DH2i, dr, HA, Replication, SQL, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

ChalkTalk Video: Using the 3-2-1 Rule To Protect Against Ransomware

Posted on August 29, 2017 by George Crump

Protection in the modern data center is changing. IT must provide backup to disk and an instant recover capability to meet the recovery expectations of application owners. But this rapid protection also puts data at risk to a ransomware attack.…

Tagged with: Backup, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, LTFS, LTO, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017, WAN
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Distributed Storage Goes Mainstream

Posted on August 28, 2017 by George Crump

Distributed storage offers more capability than traditional scale-out solutions. They scale further, are more granular and have a better multi-site/multi-cloud model. But distributed systems are typically viewed as the storage system for the next generation data center, and while they…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Encryption, Flash, Hedvig, Hypervisor, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SDS, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

How DRaaS Can Help Data Center Modernization

Posted on August 17, 2017 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions are an ideal way for organizations to address their need to recover from a disaster. But DRaaS solutions can also help organizations with data center modernization – efforts like storage refreshes, server upgrades,…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication
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Why Doesn’t Amazon Protect Your Data?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Amazon and its competitors could do more to protect the data stored in their object storage and block storage, and I can’t think of a reason why they shouldn’t. I have an idea on how they could make a lot…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, dr, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, VM
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How To Leverage Cloud Storage With VMware

Posted on August 14, 2017 by George Crump

VWware, for the most part, is an on-premises infrastructure and that typically means there is an on-premises storage architecture to support it. How, then, can organizations leverage cloud storage in support of their VMware infrastructure? Cloud Storage for VMware Backup…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Retention, Hybrid, Migration, Replication, VM, VMware
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Coraid – A Storage Company Without an Exit Strategy

Posted on August 10, 2017 by George Crump

For most storage startups, it is all about the “exit strategy” – also known as the liquidity event. That is the moment where years and sometimes decades of non-profitability is made up for by either being bought or going public.…

Tagged with: AoE, ATA, Coraid, FMS2017, Hypervisor, LUN, Replication, SCSI, Snapshot, Virtualization, VLAN
Posted in Briefing Note

Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on August 10, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the…