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Situational Disaster Recovery

Posted on May 14, 2015 by George Crump

In IT there is a tendency to treat all disasters the same, at least from a planning perspective. But the reality is that data is protected in a variety of ways; with snapshots, replication, backup to disk, backup to cloud…

Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Briefing Note: Riverbed Hyper-Converges Branch IT

Posted on May 8, 2015 by George Crump

Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-converged, IOPS, Riverbed, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: Zerto brings Hypervisor-to-Hypervisor Replication

Posted on May 8, 2015 by George Crump

Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a…

Tagged with: Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Zerto
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EMC World 2015 – From PBBA to Protection Storage

Posted on May 5, 2015 by George Crump

While the basic backup process will probably always be the foundational component of data protection, IT professionals are demanding more from the data protection process, functions like replication, archive, snapshot management and application availability. Purpose Built Backup Appliances (PBBA) need…

Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, EMCworld2015, PBBA, RPO, RTO
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ChalkTalk Video: Making Backup Storage Work Harder

Posted on April 20, 2015 by George Crump

We’ve kicked off the 2015 season of our data protection workshops. This year we are providing details on real-world designs that upgrade your backups. At the “Backup 2.0 Workshop” we will break the age-old rules of data protection to meet…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, performance, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions, Storage Decisions 2015, TechTarget
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Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR

Posted on March 17, 2015 by George Crump

As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: For Veeam it’s about more than Backup, it’s about Availability

Posted on March 11, 2015 by George Crump

Data protection is about much more than the successful completion of backup jobs. While the backup part of the process has value, its role has shifted to providing point-in-time versions of data instead of being the primary point of recovery.…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Protection, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Veeam
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Overcoming the Challenges of Snapshot Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by George Crump

In February Storage Switzerland held two webinars that used similar techniques to address an age old problem: data protection. Both of these webinars asked primary storage to take a larger role in its own protection. One webinar discussed using snapshots…