The always-on data center is a data center that can provide application availability to its users no matter what technical problems may occur. To meet this lofty expectation, IT professionals need to change the way they approach data protection and…
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What is an “Always-On” Data Center?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Webinar: 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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What is Your Recovery Performance Expectation?
Storage Switzerland works with IT professionals to design data protection and disaster recovery plans. Those conversations always start with a discussion about service level objectives (SLO). Each application or data set should have an SLO, that comes from several very…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Flash, Infrascale, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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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…
Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Protection, EMC, IoT, SLA, SLO
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Recovering from a Hurricane
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) should be relatively generic with a design that allows it to survive a data center outage of any type. But each type of disaster requires a unique response. At the Storage Decision’s “Modernizing Your Disaster Recovery…
Is Software-Defined Storage Enough?
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Fragmentation, Hyper-converged, NAS, Primary Data, SDS, SLO, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Virtualization
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Eliminating RPO/RTO With Affordable Secondary Storage
Backup 2.0 Workshop On The Way To London We completed Backup 2.0 Dallas and we will be in London on October 22nd. A popular session during the workshop discusses leveraging secondary storage and creating a usable copy of data that is only a…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, SLO, Snapshot, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Situational Disaster Recovery
In IT there is a tendency to treat all disasters the same, at least from a planning perspective. But the reality is that data is protected in a variety of ways; with snapshots, replication, backup to disk, backup to cloud…
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015
Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…
Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid Cloud, Service Level Objective, SLO, Storage Decisions, TechTarget, Test/Dev
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