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  • Take a hybrid approach to your data protection plan

    When developing a data protection plan, IT teams should take a hybrid approach to on-site and off-site protection that uses disk, cloud and tape in almost every scenario. Sure, some organizations can go without tape due to a lack of long-term retention requirements, while others will never be able touse the cloud for one security…

  • Tape still critical in any data archiving strategy

    The rumors of tape’s demise are greatly exaggerated and have been ever since disk companies started predicting the end of tape (which hasn’t happened yet, and is unlikely to anytime soon). A recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research report found that tape is still in use in 56% of organizations. In general, the larger the…

  • Why copy data management matters

    Why does copy data management matter? Because you need better data protection than you have and you can’t afford to move forward with your current protection based on how the business is scaling. Operationally, production storage is growing at approximately 40% annually, as is secondary protection storage. Sure, you get some deduplication benefits, but the…

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  • The Challenges and Benefits of Virtualization-Protection

    Last week, my article in Windows IT Pro on “Virtualize Everything” stimulated a rather wide range of banter: · A few folks pointed out that some servers should not be virtualized, such as some DNS, Active Directory domain controllers and perhaps the management system that controls your hypervisor infrastructure. Those folks are correct – there…

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  • The economics of enterprise data protection

    Organizations of all sizes have been looking for better ways to protect their data. In some cases, they do so because existing backup solutions are broken, antiquated, cumbersome or not scaling to support the production environment adequately. In other cases, an organization is simply trying to improve what it’s doing incrementally, based on economic considerations…

  • Kickstart your IT disaster recovery plan

    Disaster recovery planning can mean a lot of different things and that’s a key point to remember; your organization’s DR plan should be tailored to its specific needs. In other words, an IT DR plan for a middle school will be very different from that of a hospital. This Drill Down offers information for organizations…