The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection…
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Backing up the Agile Data Center
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Can Dell be a leader in the Software Defined, Converged Data Center?
IDC recently recognized Dell as the leader in total terabytes sold (internal and external), and strengthened our stance that Dell is well positioned as we continue down the road to software defined storage and converged infrastructure. Dell is unique among…
Tagged with: Backup, Converged Storage, Dell, Disaster recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Backup success needs a fresh approach
Data protection is something that seems so simple, all you have to do is copy data from primary storage to secondary storage. The process becomes complex, however, as you add requirements like backing up live data non-disruptively while also enabling…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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Webinar – Three steps to Backup & Recovery Success
Let’s face it, data protection is more broken than ever. Data center initiatives like virtualization and big data analytics as well as the general expectation of users that everything be up all the time, have created an almost impossible set…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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Posted in Webinar
Enabling Service Level Data Protection – Dell’s Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite
The standardization of server and desktop virtualization, the uncontrollable growth of unstructured data and the increasing importance of databases are forcing IT planners to face reality and rethink their data protection strategies. While they still need to use enterprise backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Dell, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Rethinking Data Protection in the Modern Data Center – Podcast
Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump is a leading expert on data protection. He joins me on this podcast with Stephen Spellicy, Senior Director, Product Management from HP to talk about how to service level objective driven backups can…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, HP Backup and Recovery, Protection, recover, SLO, Storage Switzerland
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Posted in Podcast
Automated Virtual Machine Data Recovery
Veeam Provides Sneak Peek Into Version 8 Protecting data via point-in-time snapshots may be easy to setup and configure but performing a VM based recovery off this data is typically layered with lots of manual and time consuming steps. Not…
Tagged with: Data recovery, LUN, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, Service Level Objective, SLO, Snapshot, Veeam, Virtual machine
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CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP
Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data…
Tagged with: Backup, CA, Data Protection, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Develop A Service Level Objective Driven Data Protection Strategy
Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.
Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Protection, Provisioning, Reliability, RO, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Backup Basics: What do SLO, RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?
Being in charge of the data protection process is a thankless job. The process you create can run perfectly 99% of the time but everyone will remember the 1 time it fell short, and they will blame you. The task…
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