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Briefing Note: For Veeam it’s about more than Backup, it’s about Availability

Posted on March 11, 2015 by George Crump

Data protection is about much more than the successful completion of backup jobs. While the backup part of the process has value, its role has shifted to providing point-in-time versions of data instead of being the primary point of recovery.…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Protection, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Veeam
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Briefing Note: What does Dell see in Exablox’s Scale-out NAS?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Eric Slack

Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, Exablox, NAS, Object, Protection, Scale-Out, Snapshot
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Overcoming the Challenges of Snapshot Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by George Crump

In February Storage Switzerland held two webinars that used similar techniques to address an age old problem: data protection. Both of these webinars asked primary storage to take a larger role in its own protection. One webinar discussed using snapshots…

Tagged with: Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, performance, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Briefing Note: Springpath Delivers SDS from the Ground Up

Posted on February 18, 2015 by George Crump

In the future, the data center’s storage architecture should be able to scale elastically, automatically adapting to performance demands. It should also be more than just reliable; it should be self-healing, and deliver these capabilities with cloud economics. This future…

Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, performance, Replication, Scale, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Software Defined Storage grows up with FalconStor FreeStor

Posted on February 18, 2015 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) is still in its infancy. While there are exceptions, like Atlantis Computing, Nexenta and DataCore, vendors in the space are for the most part startups looking to get their first hundred or so customers. FalconStor’s new…

Tagged with: Cluster, Deduplication, FalconStor, Flash, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Tape, Virtualization
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Orchestrating Copy Data

Posted on February 16, 2015 by George Crump

2015 will be THE year of copy data management. Multiple vendors will bring solutions to the market. Many of these solutions will leverage snapshot technology in one form or another in an effort to reduce the capacity requirements of secondary…

Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Catalogic, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev, Virtual machine
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Analyst Blog: If Primary Storage Protects itself, what is Backup for?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by George Crump

In our last few columns, Storage Switzerland has described a data protection solution that allows primary storage to leverage snapshot technology to protect itself. The basic design requires two storage systems, one on-premise and one at a disaster recovery location.…

Briefing Note: Coho Data announces Site-To-Site Replication

Posted on December 5, 2014 by George Crump

A big challenge for a startup in the storage space is catching up to the legacy vendors in terms of features, with one of the most critical and apparently most difficult to complete being site-to-site replication. This feature allows the…