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How and Why to Protect Against Ransomware

Posted on October 17, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Ransomware is the latest and greatest threat from those wishing to profit from doing harm to data. While it started as a threat to consumer data, it is clearly expanding into a full-on assault against corporate data, which costs companies…

Tagged with: Backup, CDP, Encryption, Malware, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, SMB, Snapshot
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How hard is it to do DR for VMware/Hyper-V?

Posted on October 11, 2016 by wcurtispreston

You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…

Tagged with: dr, HCI, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
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Data Management as a Strategy – Commvault Go 2016

Posted on October 5, 2016 by George Crump

A complete data management requires solutions for data protection, data preservation, copy management, data mobility, data classification, data search and disaster recovery. There are numerous point solutions on the market today that address these needs, but most only cover one…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Integration, Replication, Snapshot
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DR Strategies for Hyperconverged Architectures

Posted on September 21, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. The question is do they help solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environment have: DR? The answer may come down to what hypervisor they…

Tagged with: dr, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, SRM
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Bringing Copy Data Management to Pure Storage

Posted on September 14, 2016 by George Crump

Catalogic Briefing Note The goal of a copy data management (CDM) solution is to limit the number of secondary copies of data by combining advanced snapshots and replication with orchestration to automate how secondary copies of data are presented to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Catalogic, CDM, Compression, Deduplication, Pure, Replication, Snapshot
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Overcoming the Hyperconvergence Planning Problem

Posted on September 7, 2016 by George Crump

Maxta Briefing Note Hyperconvergence is a compelling solution to organizations trying to simplify their virtual infrastructures in an effort to be more “cloud-like”. The technology consolidates storage software into the hypervisor of a virtual infrastructure, eliminating the need for a…

Tagged with: Clones, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, Maxta, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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All-Flash for Mid-tier Data Center

Posted on August 29, 2016 by George Crump

Exablox Briefing Note Despite the continual decline in the cost of flash, all-flash arrays remain out of reach for many medium sized data centers. They are left trying to band-aid performance problems with server side caching or hybrid arrays instead…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Exablox, Flash, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, Snapshots, SSD
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Raising the Bar on Hyperconvergence, Storage and QoS

Posted on August 29, 2016 by George Crump

Pivot3 Briefing Note IT professionals have a lot of choices to make when they design their next generation infrastructure. They have to choose between a hyperconverged offering that consolidates compute, storage and networking into a single tier or a more…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Latency, PCIe, performance, Pivot3, QOS, Replication, Shared Storage, Snapshots
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Multi-Cloud DRaaS and Mobility

Posted on August 29, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Zerto Briefing Note IT Professionals are under constant pressure to meet tighter and tighter recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). While traditional backup has a role to play in meeting these objectives, replication is moving more to…