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Making DRaaS Make Even More Sense – Bluelock Briefing Note

Posted on January 6, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) continues to grow on both the demand and the supply side of the equation. While some still wonder if DRaaS makes sense for their business, many customers and vendors alike are flocking to the…

Tagged with: Backup, Bluelock, Data deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, Virtualization
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What is Backup?

Posted on January 4, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Defining backup is both simple and complex. Google says a backup is “the procedure for making extra copies of data in case the original is lost or damaged.” This definition describes the action (extra copies) and the purpose (in case…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Erasure Coding, RAID, Replication, Snapshots
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How do Object Storage Systems Protect the Data they Store?

Posted on December 21, 2016 by wcurtispreston

The value of object storage is that it can be the storage backend to a variety of unstructured data use cases, ranging from primary file stores, to unstructured data archives to a backup target for the protection of transactional primary…

Tagged with: Archive, Avere, Backup, Latency, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Integrating Copy Data Management with DRaaS – Axcient Briefing Note

Posted on December 16, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Why don’t Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) vendors offer Copy Data Management (CDM) services? In order to do that, the company in question must have a copy of your data. The service must also be able to go back…

Tagged with: Axcient, Cloud, Copy Data, CPM, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication, Snapshot
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The Impact of Big Backup on Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication

Posted on December 8, 2016 by George Crump

Thanks to data efficiency, disk is the primary backup target in most data centers. However, with backup, weeks, months and years of retention are kept and therefore the cost of straight disk is untenable. However, with data deduplication, which compares…

Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, DRAM, ExaGrid, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, VM
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Making Sure the Storage Infrastructure Keeps Pace

Posted on November 14, 2016 by George Crump

Cisco Briefing Note Pressure on the storage architecture is compounded by the variety of ways that infrastructure is delivered. Options range from traditional fibre channel storage area networks, to IP storage networks, to bladed systems and to hyperconverged infrastructures. Then,…

Tagged with: CISCO, dr, FC, FCIP, Flash, Hyperconverged, Replication, SAN, SDS, WAN
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Adding File Services to Hyperconverged Architectures

Posted on November 14, 2016 by George Crump

Hyperconverged architectures are gaining interest in organizations of all sizes. They collapse the compute, network and storage tiers into a single tier that promises an easier to use and more cost effective solution for virtualized data centers. The problem is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, VM
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Solving the Problem that SDS Does not

Posted on November 11, 2016 by George Crump

FormationOne Briefing Note Most data centers are not really out of capacity, they are just out of capacity that they can get to in any meaningful way. Confused? Let me explain. The problem is the capacity is spread across potentially…

Tagged with: Capacity, CDP, DRaaS, Flash, FormationOne, QOS, Replication, SDS, SSD, VM
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Modernizing Enterprise Backup Instead of Replacing it

Posted on November 4, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Unitrends Briefing Note To survive in the latest age of computing, backup products must move beyond backup and begin to embrace business continuity. Today’s companies want to resume business immediately after a disaster, and backup products that work “the old…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Replication, Unitrends, VM
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What Are the Top 3 Reasons Enterprises Should Consider Object Storage

Posted on November 3, 2016 by George Crump

Enterprises should standardize on object storage for almost all (95 percent of their unstructured data and limit their network attached storage systems (NAS) storage to only the most active data that requires high performance. The payoff to your organization will…