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5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018

The goal of data protection is to protect the organization from outages. The scope of these outages can impact an application, a server, a storage system or an entire data center. IT faces the challenge of restoring the most recent

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Understanding the Data Center Trends That Will Impact Data Protection

The data center keeps evolving, and each new trend that comes into the data center impacts the data protection process in some way. Trends like the shift to hybrid IT, cyber-threats, the explosion in the number of mission-critical applications, the

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Why Not Have your Backup System Provide CDM? – Unitrends Briefing Note

If the updates coming out of the various backup software companies are any indication, copy data management (CDM) and instant recovery are mainstream features. In addition, some backup software products are finally starting to recognize the importance of creating and

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What Backup Software Should I Use? – is the wrong question

The question of what backup software application should an organization use comes up all the time on the online forums I visit on LinkedIn and Spiceworks. The answer to that question typically come from vendors who, of course, say “Use

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The Storage Challenges to IT Agility

IT is under pressure to move to a self-service environment, where users and applications “order up” IT on an “as needed” basis. Behind the scenes the IT infrastructure is supposed to respond and adapt to those orders as they come

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Simplifying Infrastructure Performance Management for IBM Spectrum – SVA BVQ Briefing Note

Today’s enterprise data center is a complicated virtualized storage infrastructure that has to function reliably and efficiently on a full time basis. It also has to be able to handle ever-increasing amounts of data. A key part of this infrastructure

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Google Storage vs. Amazon Storage

I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:

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EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management Solution

Data centers are drowning in data. The unprecedented growth comes from a variety of new sources like data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as from traditional sources like user data. But the biggest area of data

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Curing Storage Blindness

As modern organizations struggle to keep up with the ever-growing data deluge, they have been forced to deploy and overprovision different types of storage in order to meet their Service Level Agreements (SLA), leading to unprecedented storage sprawl. Storage consolidation

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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

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