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Why DR Orchestration is a Must Have

Posted on September 3, 2019 by George Crump

Disasters rarely strike at a convenient time, like when recovery polices are all up to date, and when there are plenty of IT staff on hand to deal with any issues that may come up. In most cases, the opposite…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Streaming Recovery vs. In-Place Recovery – Which is Better?

Posted on August 21, 2019 by George Crump

Server recovery from backup typically means copying data from the backup device over the network back to a production storage system or server. In addition to copying the data across the network, the backup software has to extract it from…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud

Posted on August 20, 2019 by George Crump

Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud tend to be the direction that most organizations are heading with their cloud strategy. The problem is the path to both of these cloud strategies is full of unexpected twists and turns. What is Hybrid-Cloud? While these…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Egress Fees, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Replication
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What is the State of Software Defined Storage?

Posted on August 19, 2019 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts the storage software from the storage hardware. It sounds great on paper and looks great on the whiteboard but in execution it fails to impress. Storage Switzerland finds that the large majority of customers still…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, dr, Migration, NVMe, OPEX, PCIe, Replication, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Meet The CEO: HYCU, Inc’s Simon Taylor

Posted on August 15, 2019 by George Crump

Backup and Recovery is as old as the data center itself, but organizations still struggle with the process. IT professionals have tried many solutions to solve their data protection solutions, and the market is full of options, but none seem…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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How Has Ransomware Changed Data Protection?

Posted on August 6, 2019 by George Crump

The ransomware threat can have a significant monetary impact on the business. Not only are enterprises forced to pay the ransom fee to recover their data, but under various government regulations they also may be charged additional fines per impacted…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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For All-Flash Performance, Hardware vs. Media

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

In recent years the industry has seen the evolution of flash media from Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based interconnects to Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) based interconnects. And now, PCIe interconnect is standardized around…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, ROI, SAS, Violin Systems
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How to Modernize Data Protection and Live to Tell About it

Posted on July 24, 2019 by George Crump

There are several vendors on the market today that want customers to modernize their current data protection strategy by selecting their solution. The problem with most of the modern data protection solutions is they don’t support the current solution in…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft
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Protecting the Multi-Cloud Data Center Without Losing Your Mind

Posted on July 23, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-cloud isn’t a future architecture, it is a reality right now. Organizations have on-premises clouds (virtualized infrastructures) and are hosting applications in multiple cloud providers. The problem is the multi-cloud situation these organizations find themselves in is ad-hoc, not part…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, HYCU, Migration, Replication, SQL, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Ransomware, Rapid Restoration and Disasters – Recovering from Backup’s Three Biggest Challenges!

Posted on July 19, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to make sure their backup infrastructure can meet the recovery objectives of today’s biggest challenges: ransomware, rapid restoration and disasters. Businesses expect their IT teams to recover faster than ever and they need business performance to be the…