Cloud based copy data management (CDM) has the potential to extract even more value from copy data than does conventional CDM solutions. Copy data is the copies of production data used to feed various other processes in the data center…
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SlideShare: Cut Disaster Recovery Expenses – Improve Recovery Times
4 steps for more affordable, effective disaster recovery Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication
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How to Beat Your RPO and RTO without Recovery – Quest Briefing Note
Meeting strict RPOs and RTOs requires that data protection solutions provide IT administrators better monitoring and analytics, in addition to more frequent copies. Backup, snapshot and replication are reactive solutions, that IT rightly counts on to make sure they can…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Quest, Replication, ROI, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Posted in Briefing Note
How Does Your DRaaS Get Data to the Cloud?
A DRaaS solution can use several methods to get data to the provider, each method directly impacts RPO and RTO. IT needs to be very careful to select the right method to meet the organization’s objectives and budget. The primary…
How Do I Protect Applications Running in Multiple Clouds? – Datos IO Briefing Note
It is normal for many environments to run applications in the cloud. For some environments, the new normal is running applications in multiple clouds, as well as running applications in their own data center or private cloud. If the new…
Tintri Storage is DR Ready
In a recent article, my colleague George Crump discussed the need to simplify data protection (DP) and disaster recovery (DR) operations, with primary storage that is DR ready. DR ready primary storage would aid in DP and DR processes without…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DP, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, Scale-Out, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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Is There a Better Way to Backup Unstructured Data? – Igneous Briefing Note
It’s no secret that unstructured data is consuming data center tiles across the world. Structured data may have been king at one point, but the vast amount of storage in today’s data centers is being consumed by unstructured data. This…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Igneous, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, Unstructured data
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Posted in Briefing Note
ChalkTalk Video: What is Recovery Performance Expectation
Meeting the organization’s high recovery point and recovery time expectations is no longer enough. Now organizations are beginning to pay attention to the performance of an application in its recovered state. Backup and replication applications enable secondary storage or the…
Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note
The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Encryption, FC, ISCSI, NFS, Replication, S3, SMB, Virtual, VTL
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Do You Understand Your Disaster Recovery Buckets?
Disaster Recovery is a complex and fragile process. That is why it is important for IT to simplify that process as much as possible. An area where we are seeing success is how you group applications. While each application will…
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