Any organization that takes a moment to study the data on their primary storage system will quickly realize that the majority (as much as 90 percent) of data that is stored on it has not been accessed for months if…
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Maintaining Data Monetization Value over Time
It’s a fact that data stored on magnetic media degrades over time. It cannot be stopped; it can only be managed. It’s a problem that you must address if you plan to create a data monetization system that stores data…
Tagged with: Bit Rot, Caringo, Data Monetization, Magnetic, NAS, Object Storage, Retention
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Podcast: Do you know what High-Value Data is?
High-Value Data is different from mission critical data. Mission critical data ensures the operation of the data center hour by hour. High-value data is critical data that organization has created but is not actively using but still needs to retain…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Protection, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan, Recovery, Retention, Scale, Unstructured data
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Securing High-Value Data in Mid-Tier IT
Despite its name, high-value data is often mishandled in many organizations. Often the backup process is counted on to secure and retain this information, but while some of the software has basic archive functionality it was neither intended nor designed…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Protection, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan, Recovery, Retention, Scale, Unstructured data
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What is Shadow IT? – and why you should care
“Shadow IT” is a name for the process that occurs when users self-select IT services, signing up for cloud-based services without the knowledge or approval of the IT organization. IT could take the attitude that Shadow IT is a good…
IT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion
IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and CIOs are very careful about which projects they “own”, which…
Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Hard disk, Retention, SpectraLogic, Surveillance
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Copy Data vs. Snapshots
As I discussed in an earlier column “Not All Snapshots are the Same”, storage systems that use a re-directed snapshot technique can typically maintain thousands of snapshots without impacting storage performance. But just because you can maintain thousands of snapshots,…
Tagged with: Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Point-in-Time, Retention, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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Designing Data Protection for the 100% Availability Perception
Thanks primarily to cloud based services users have been exposed to data centers that are able to offer at least the perception of applications that never go down and data that is never deleted. A simple Google search will reveal…
Tagged with: Availability, Data Protection, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Analyst Opinion: Two Backup Trends for 2015
Users are demanding more their backup applications than ever before. Faster backups, longer retention and rapid recovery are now an expectation instead of a request. 2015 promises more of the same demands but worse, even faster backups, maybe continuous backup,…
Tagged with: backup application, Copy Data, Data Protection, Opinion, Recovery, Retention, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, TechTarget
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Real-Time Video Data – Competitive Advantage or Budget Sinkhole?
One of the fastest growing data types is video data and organizations of all kinds and sizes are having to deal with it. These organizations are not the traditional media and entertainment companies; now sports teams, public entities, mega-churches and…
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