Primary storage has remained the same for quite some time. It comes in two primary forms: block or file, also known as SAN or NAS. Yes, each of these two forms can be filled with a mix of ingredients, including…
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Is it Time to Reboot Primary Storage?
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, file sync and share, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, Scale-Out
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ChalkTalk Video: Primary Storage Should Protect Itself
Storage that protects itself aids in the data protection and disaster recovery processes without compromising traditional primary storage performance and features. It does this through a combination of its own capabilities (snapshots, basic replication as well as multi-site and synchronous…
What is an “Always-On” Data Center?
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…
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…
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