The always-on data center is a data center that can provide application availability to its users no matter what technical problems may occur. To meet this lofty expectation, IT professionals need to change the way they approach data protection and…
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What is an “Always-On” Data Center?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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The Role of Tape in Today’s Data Center
The use of tape has certainly declined in today’s data center, but it has not disappeared – much to the chagrin of some people who are self-professed “tape haters”. They simply don’t understand why anyone would use tape in a…
DR Ready Storage Must Be Cloud Aware
The success of cloud providers like Amazon, Azure and Google is forcing the data center to re-think various aspects of their IT infrastructure. There are cases where a cloud provider can enhance typical on-premise storage to be DR Ready and…
The Role of Backup in a Disaster Recovery Operation
Almost anything that interrupts users from accessing their applications or their data is, to them, a disaster but for most IT Professionals a true disaster is an event that causes the loss of the entire data center. Disasters of this…
Are you Asking the Right DR Questions
It’s a really sad thing when a customer gets far down the path of a project and finds out it is going to fail. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve seen this happen. A customer has…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Infrascale, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape
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StorageShort: Is Your DR Site A Single Point of Failure?
One of the most overlooked aspects of a disaster recovery strategy is making sure that data is being protected while you are at the DR site. In a classic primary to DR site replication strategy, a primary data center failure…
How to Enable the Cloud to Master Physics – SwiftStack Briefing Note
The problem with the public cloud has always been physics. We like the idea of being able to access our data anytime anywhere, but the reality often falls short. It takes a lot of horsepower to get data from point…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Google, Hybrid, M&E, Replication, SwiftStack, Sync
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Preparing a Site for a Disaster
Preparations for your next disaster can’t start next week, next month or right before the disaster. It has to start now. There are a lot of things you must think about and implement before the disaster strikes. You need to…
DR Ready Storage Must be Space Efficient
One of the biggest criticisms of using primary storage for DR is cost. Primary storage can be expensive, and using it in your DR plan essentially doubles your storage requirement. Therefore, it is essential that DR Ready storage use as…
Are Snapshots and Replication Enough for VMware DR?
Most of the environment in a majority of data centers is now virtualized, often using VMware as the primary hypervisor. These organizations have also virtualized mission critical applications which need to be recovered quickly in the event of a disaster.…
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