The data center’s biggest challenge is not dealing with the capacity growth of the primary data set, it is dealing with the growth of the secondary data set. The secondary data set is copies of data it creates from primary…
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Copy Data Management is Ready for Prime Time
Tagged with: CDM, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, EMC, Snapshots
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Hardware Matters More Than Ever
Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, Memory, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined, Violin Memory
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The Turnkey Private Cloud
ZeroStack Briefing Note It is hard to argue with the flexibility of Amazon Web Services and similar offerings. With just a few mouse clicks or API calls, customers can have a completely operational database or web server ready for development…
Tagged with: Backup and Recovery, Cloud, Dev/Test, Hypervisor, Snapshots, ZeroStack
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Solve the NetApp Storage Performance Problem
IT organizations select NetApp storage because it excels at managing unstructured data. When NetApp first introduced the filer concept, the data it was intended to store was typically user created files from office productivity applications. The files were created, modified,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Flash, I/O, NetApp, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Unstructured data
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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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Software Defined Storage is more than Cost Reduction
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts data services from the storage hardware, eliminating vendor lock in. With SDS a data center can be a mixture of different vendors’ storage solutions and the storage systems can be the best of breed for…
Tagged with: Cache, Clone, Clones, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning
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ChalkTalk Video – What is Software Defined Storage?
In this ChalkTalk Video Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and FalconStor VP of Corporate Marketing Tim Sheets explain what Software Defined Storage (SDS) is, what to look for in a SDS solution and how to determine if SDS makes…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, FalconStor, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning, Tiering
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How does Data Loss Happen and How can it be Stopped?
A recent blog by B&L Associates brought to light the problem of data loss. The entry cites surveys from Kroll Ontrack and EMC, which indicated that organizations see data loss as their single most significant risk and that the cost…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Data Loss, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Protection, Replication, Snapshots, TechTarget
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SlideShare: How Snapshots CAN be Backups
Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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