User and organizational expectations are higher than ever. They want high performance access to massive amounts of data and in the event that something goes wrong they expect IT to resolve the situation instantly and cost effectively no matter how…
Blog Archives
Webinar: DRaaS Best Practices – 5 Critical Recovery Steps
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers organizations one of the most viable recovery options available to them in recent years. The ability to have an on-demand recovery site that is pre-seeded with your data should dramatically lower costs and…
The Impact of Big Backup on Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication
Thanks to data efficiency, disk is the primary backup target in most data centers. However, with backup, weeks, months and years of retention are kept and therefore the cost of straight disk is untenable. However, with data deduplication, which compares…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, DRAM, ExaGrid, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
What are the Requirements of a Cloud First Strategy?
A Cloud First Strategy means that as an organization brings new applications or services online, it tries to explore the viability of a cloud deployment prior to deploying within a more traditional architecture. Many organizations today are considering a Cloud…
Build your DRaaS
DRaaS is the future of disaster recovery, but leveraging cloud backup may be an expensive way to implement it. Cloud replication, because it is operating on the working set, keeps cloud storage costs contained. The cloud replication software also enables organizations with an IT ready secondary site to leverage that site and create their own DRaaS. In either case, the organization is in control of when and how recovery happens. DRaaS built on replication also enables organizations to use the replication software to enable other cloud initiatives like bursting and test/dev. In this article Storage Switzerland explores the various methods to go about creating and implementing a DRaaS solution.
Tagged with: Baas, Backup, CSP, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, MSP, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Zerto
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Veeam moves to the Public Cloud: Veeam V9
Veeam has been a leader in the private cloud world for a while now, but in its latest release it set its sights on using the public cloud in the same way their customers have. It is also adding support…
Addressing Modern Recovery Requirements
A Product Analysis of Dell Rapid Recovery It’s time for a new type of backup and recovery because the old ways of backup simply do not meet the current needs of many businesses. It starts with the inefficiencies of how…
Designing Backup to replace Primary Storage
Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden”…
The Storage Requirements for 100% Virtualization
After a rapid move from test to production, virtualization of existing servers in many companies seems to slow down. While it is true that most data centers have adopted a virtualize first philosophy, getting those older, mission critical workloads virtualized…
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Critical, QOS, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 