Some corporate financial planners are pointing towards the use of hybrid cloud solutions as a way to reduce storage costs. The idea is to move redundant copies of information off expensive onsite primary storage to lower cost storage in the…
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What is Copy Data?
Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Adding Deduplication and Compression without impacting performance
IT professionals expect a lot from their storage systems; they want volume management, thin provisioning, snapshot, clones, automated tiering, replication etc. Increasingly today, they want deduplication and compression as well, so they can squeeze every ounce of capacity out of…
Tagged with: Automated Tiering, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, IOPS, Multi-core, performance, Permabit, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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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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An Index into Unstructured NetApp Data
Catalogic ECX – Enterprise Catalog Management Software Industry pundits continue to chronicle how the deluge of unstructured data (user files, images, PDFs, email, etc.) is overwhelming many data center storage environments. While applying the right storage technology to shore-up data…
Proof Point – Snapshots Replaces Backup – How One Customer Solved Their Company’s Backup Problems
Grand River Conservation Authority is a Canadian watershed management agency, similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority in the US. They’re responsible for an area the size of Delaware with a population of almost 1 million people. GRCA has 150 FT…
Tagged with: Backup, Delaware, Incremental backup, Microsoft SQL Server, Nimble Storage, Snapshot, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?
My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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When Disaster Strikes, What’s Most Important?
Other than the obvious people issues, when a disaster strikes what’s most important for the data center? Given the time to think about it, most IT managers will answer the question correctly. The most important thing is to restore access…
Tagged with: Application Aware, Data Movement, Disaster recovery, Neverfail, Snapshot
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