The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…
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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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End to End VM Management Driven By Storage – Tintri Briefing Note
Organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth in their virtual environments and as they grow, maintaining a consistent level of performance becomes a major problem. Most enterprises combat this challenge by over-provisioning resources; they buy too much compute and make massive investments…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hypervisor, Migration, QOS, Scale, Tintri, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Value of High Focused Data Protection – HYCU Backup for Nutanix
Anytime an enterprise considers a new platform it has to address one particular requirement; how exactly IT will protect the new platform. If the platform promises enough value, IT may forgo that requirement and cobble together a “best efforts” data…
Tagged with: Cloud, Comtrade, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
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How to Provide Rapid Recovery for Mission-Critical Applications
When mission-critical applications go down, bad things happen. Organizations lose revenue, users and customers are dissatisfied. IT loses its reputation and sometimes even their jobs. There is no arguing that these applications need to be protected regularly and recovered quickly.…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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How to Improve your Recovery Confidence
Most organizations have very low confidence in their ability to consistently recover data, whether from a minor outage or a major disaster. They’ve been through too many instances where data could not be recovered, took too long to be recovered,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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SlideShare: Hitting Your Data Protection Sweet Spot
The data protection process sometimes has objectives that seem to be in opposition to one another. On one side, the organization needs rapid and frequent data captures so that RPOs and RTOs are met. On the other side, there is…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Beating the VMware Tax – Maxta Briefing Note
The term VMware Tax was a derogatory description of a change in VMware licensing a few years ago that charged users based on the amount of vRAM they used. VMware, after public outcry, dropped that policy. The term is now…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Can You Backup a Nutanix Cluster to Amazon S3? – Comtrade Software Briefing Note
Data centers of all types are increasingly trying to figure out how to store backups in the cloud. VMware and Hyper-V customers have a variety of options for doing this, but Nutanix customers using the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) have historically…
How to Implement Replication for Rapid Recovery
For organizations needing to protect mission-critical critical systems, software-based replication is an ideal way to meet and potentially exceed expectations. In fact, replication can be implemented so cost effectively that the scope of coverage can extend beyond mission-critical systems and…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Webinar: 3 Steps to Stop Data Protection Sprawl
Most enterprises have little confidence in their ability to recover data in the event of a data center failure, storage failure, ransomware attack, or natural disaster. There is too much data to protect and user expectations of rapid recovery are…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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