There was a time not too long ago where the state of VMware backups was bad. It was so bad in fact that entirely new companies emerged to address the problem. These companies took the approach of ignoring the then…
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Have We Reached VMware Backup Parity?
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Why SDN Should be Part of Your Cloud Strategy
Organizations are incorporating public cloud resources into their deployment strategies. The organization may have a cloud-first initiative, or it may use the cloud as determined by the workload but the reality is that an overwhelming number of organizations deploy in…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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A Collective Hive for HCI – Maxta MxIQ Briefing Note
Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) simplifies many things for busy IT professionals. As their environment grows, HCI automatically scales with it, adding performance and capacity with each additional node. However, an area where HCI falls short, along with many other storage systems,…
Tagged with: Cloud, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, VDI, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Re-setting the Bar for VMware Backups in the Cloud Era
In a world where IT is scrutinized based on the bottom line, it’s easy to deprioritize disaster recovery. Building out, refreshing and managing a dedicated infrastructure for disaster recovery requires significant capex investment and compounds the already heavy burden of…
Tagged with: AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Designing Backups for Data Privacy and Ransomware
Two external factors are forcing organizations to rethink their backup process and how they store backup data. The first is the ever-increasing threat of ransomware, which encrypts production data forcing the customer to pay for a “key” to decrypt it.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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HYCU for Google Cloud Platform
HYCU for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a native Google Cloud service designed to protect applications running in the Google Cloud. The software is available directly from the Google Marketplace. Instead of developing its own mechanisms for protecting data, HYCU…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, CPU, Data corruption, HA, HYCU, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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What to Look for in Cloud Native Backup
Users and software vendors realize the importance of protecting cloud-native applications. While cloud providers generally do an excellent job of protecting applications from a disaster they don’t provide easy access to tools to provide point-in-time backups which are necessary to…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, CPU, Data corruption, HA, HYCU, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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Modern Data Protection Architectures Enable a Step-by-Step Cloud Journey
The cloud holds much promise for data protection, but support for the cloud varies depending on the solution. Traditional backup applications and appliances have, at best, rudimentary support for the cloud. They may only mirror the on-premises copy of data…
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Do You Need to Backup Cloud Native Applications?
A common question from organizations with cloud native applications is do they need to back those applications up? The cloud, after all provides plenty of redundancy and all major cloud providers have multiple data centers at their disposal. Most providers…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, CPU, Data corruption, HA, HYCU, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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Don’t Forget Data Protection When Selecting Cloud Providers
The cloud is good at availability and data durability. If there is an outage cloud providers have an excellent track record of getting their services back online quickly and providing access to the latest copy of data. What if though,…
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