Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is potentially the most important requirement to understand when protecting any application or environment. RPO is essentially the amount of data that will be lost when an application is recovered. The less frequent the protection the…
Organizations have high expectations of data protection professionals to return applications to production. In the virtual environment in particular, cost effective tools exist to help meet those objectives. But which one should you use, and when? After all, not all…
For years, organizations have struggled with maintaining functional disaster recovery capabilities for their most critical business systems. The capital investment for redundant hardware, software and data center infrastructure, along with the personnel time required to ensure that business applications are…
There are two converging forces taking place in the world of enterprise IT environments today. First, there is a need to efficiently and non-disruptively backup and protect data in virtualized application infrastructure and secondly, there is an increasing interest amongst…
Business executive and IT professionals alike often share many of the same concerns when it comes to the use of cloud storage. But generally, there are four primary obstacles that businesses need to address before embracing the use of the…
Below is our latest whiteboard video featuring George Crump, Lead Analyst. He provides a preview of one of the areas covered in our ongoing series of workshops with TechTarget and Storage Decisions. In fact, Thursday, March 13th we will be in…
Below is our latest whiteboard video featuring George Crump, Lead Analyst. He provides a preview of one of the areas covered in our upcoming series of workshops with TechTarget and Storage Decisions. In fact, Tuesday, September 29th we will be…
During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, we discussed the need for organizations to consider software based approaches to accelerating WAN performance. Interestingly, our polling question revealed that 31% of the webinar participants were trying to determine why there is even…
Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.
Being in charge of the data protection process is a thankless job. The process you create can run perfectly 99% of the time but everyone will remember the 1 time it fell short, and they will blame you. The task…
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