The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…
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Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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Reduxio Focuses on Container-Native Storage
Making Persistent Storage for Production Kubernetes Attainable Containers have become highly popular among DevOps shops due to their advantages in the areas of agility, simplicity and scalability. These same qualities make them attractive candidates for hosting modern applications such as…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, ML, NVMe, NVMeoF, Reduxio, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, Virtualization, VMware
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Is it Time for All-Flash Backups?
Businesses today are all about “agile.” For storage professionals, this means delivering ultra-low latency alongside high throughput and high input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) to accelerate mission-critical application performance as much as possible. All-flash storage arrays have solidified their…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HDD, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, SSD, Veeam
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What Constitutes a Complete Data Protection Platform?
Endpoint protection has frequently been treated as an expensive hassle that is not worth it. However, for a number of reasons, organizations can no longer risk leaving employees’ laptops, tablets and other devices unprotected. The major concern is that data…
Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
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What’s Changing in Backup Software?
Today’s business environment is always-on and can tolerate no delays, and data is at the heart of these requirements. Data must be accessible the moment it is needed. At the same time, business analytics and regulations such as the California…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Cloudian, file sync and share, Hybrid, Metadata, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam
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Breaking Backup with SaaS
Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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How to Prepare for Site-Wide Disasters
It used to be that natural disasters, such as major hurricanes, were arguably the worst thing that could happen to the enterprise from an IT continuity perspective. Practically speaking, nothing else could really result in a site-wide data center failure.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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How to Avoid Cloud Pitfalls to Obtain an Infrastructure-Less Backup Strategy
Meeting requirements for infinite data retention and always-on business continuity is, practically speaking, not possible without using cloud resources in some way. On-premises backup and disaster recovery infrastructures are fraught with unpredictable costs and heavy operational overhead. At the same…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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Actifio Multi-cloud Mobility and DR Automation
Cutting Vendor Lock-in – as well as costs – from the DRaaS Equation Disaster recovery (DR) is too expensive and too cumbersome to meet the near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) required by today’s business environment.…
Tagged with: Actifio, CDM, Cloud, DataDriven2019, dr, DRaaS, Object Storage, RPO, RTO, VM
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Key Security Features to Evaluate in Your Cloud Provider
Cloud storage services have evolved significantly in terms of their ability to provide data security, as well as their ability to comply with data privacy regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer…
Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
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