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SlideShare: The Four Requirements of a Cloud-Era File System
File systems are the heart of most organizations. They’re how critical unstructured data assets are stored, organized, and shared. But with files exploding in size and quantity as well as the cloud offering potentially cheaper and more scalable storage than…
How to Implement Replication for Rapid Recovery
For organizations needing to protect mission-critical critical systems, software-based replication is an ideal way to meet and potentially exceed expectations. In fact, replication can be implemented so cost effectively that the scope of coverage can extend beyond mission-critical systems and…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Webinar: Veteran vs. Rookie – Who is Best Able to Meet The Enterprise Backup Challenge?
Backup and Recovery remain a constant challenge for most enterprises. New vendors appear on the horizon constantly to “solve” the problem. But are these “rookies” really up to the challenge or are they actually making the situation worse? Join us…
StorageShort: Disaster Recovery – Secondary Site vs. Public Cloud
During a disaster everyone needs a place to go, including an organization’s applications and data. Ideally that “place” is prepared. For decades the only real decision for IT was just how prepared would the DR site be? Options ranged from…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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How to Protect Mission Critical Applications
While they should only represent a small percentage of your environment, mission critical applications need the most attention when designing a protection process for them. Most of these applications can only be down for a few minutes and can only…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Mirroring, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Scaling Out Backup
Secondary storage, the storage that holds among other things backup data, will potentially store 10X the amount of capacity primary storage will. In addition, organizations are expecting more from their backup solutions; faster recoveries, data management and copy data management.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, Scale, VM, VMworld2017
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Covering Both Ends of DR
One of the lessons IT is learning from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is there are some situations where the organization really does not need to meet, or even come close to meeting the strict recovery point and recovery times it…
Can You Use Your Data Center as DR for The Cloud – Zerto Briefing Note
Many companies are asking two questions after moving some or all of their workloads into cloud vendors, such as Amazon, Google, or Azure. Do I need DR for the cloud? Where do you failover to if you’re running in the…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Hyper-V, Ransomware, Replication, RTO, Virtualization, VMware, Zerto
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Webinar: Hitting Your Data Protection Sweet Spot
The data protection process sometimes has objectives that seem to be in opposition to one another. On one side, the organization needs rapid and frequent data captures so that RPOs and RTOs are met. On the other side, there is…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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