A little over 15 years ago we started to see the creation of the backup appliance market with the creation of the deduplication backup target appliance. Since that time, we’ve gone from having no backup appliances to having so many…
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SlideShare: The Always-on Enterprise Requires New Service Level Objectives
The Always-on Enterprise is a data center that faced with even the most severe disaster can return applications to full working order in a matter of minutes. Service level objectives (SLOs) are the means by which IT and the organization…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Webinar: Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain
Transitioning from Data Migration to Data Management Migrating data for one-time projects is too time consuming and too expensive, so most companies have come to accept the pain of slow response times or substandard data availability and/or protection. If your…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Posted in Webinar
Is Mutual Mystification Part of your Disaster Recovery Plan?
It is impossible for all applications to be recovered instantly with no data loss after a disaster. But that is exactly what users expect. We find in some organizations IT avoids having the necessary conversation that brings users and application…
ChalkTalk Video: What is Recovery Performance Expectation
Meeting the organization’s high recovery point and recovery time expectations is no longer enough. Now organizations are beginning to pay attention to the performance of an application in its recovered state. Backup and replication applications enable secondary storage or the…
StorageShort: Are You Ready for the New Recovery Time Objective?
As long as there has been applications, there have been applications that need zero, or near zero downtime. These are applications where the life of the organization, or even human lives, literally depend on its operation. There has also always…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Posted in StorageShort
Should a Backup Appliance be Part of your Backup Refresh?
Backup needs a refresh to keep up with recovery demands of modern application and increasingly expectant users. They expect an “always-on data center.” IT professionals are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. For many, an always-on strategy is a concept that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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StorageShort: How is the App Explosion Impacting Backup Service Levels?
Most data centers are reporting a dramatic increase in the number of applications they have to deploy, support and protect. Driving this phenomenon is the improvements in developer tools that created the whole Dev/Ops movement. While most of these apps…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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Posted in StorageShort
How to Avoid the Cost of Zero RPO and RTO
IT is under constant pressure to reduce recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Users and applications owners want to set these objectives at zero. While a zero RPO/RTO is a possibility the cost to get there is enormous.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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What’s missing from Converged Architectures?
The value of converged infrastructures is they save time. It’s not that IT can’t assemble the components themselves. But considering how busy most IT professionals are today, should they? The value of the data center is not the components within…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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