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Backing up SaaS : an interview with Spanning
One of the more frequent topics that I get asked about is “How do you back up production workloads, after they go to the cloud?” A few months ago, I blogged on that – essentially saying that history is repeating… Read more
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Riverbed Announces the End to Excuses in Trying D2D2C
For several months, I’ve been talking about the inevitability of D2D2C (meaning that data is goes from primary/production storage to secondary protection storage and then to a tertiary cloud). In fact, I blogged a few months ago that iit s… Read more
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What if Cloud-Backup-Storage was Free?
Not Backup-as-a-Service, but just cloud-storage that could be used to supplement a backup. Sure, there are a lot of STaaS (storage-as-a-service) folks that will give you a small amount of capacity to try their platform, knowing full well that you… Read more
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D2D2C is like 1 box of Legos and 2 manuals
Last year, I blogged that a modern “Data Protection Strategy” is more than just backup – instead including also snapshots, replication, archiving, etc. (see also bit.ly/jbSpectrum1) And while some would then call this a hybrid architecture, others prefer to think… Read more
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OFS and BaaS – why you need both
At first glance, the services can be easily confused: Yes, it’s very easy to see how OFS and BaaS are similar. And for individual users and their consumer data, one might use either service for both goals – but they… Read more
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New Math: Virtualization plus DPaaS = BC/DR!
Maybe that is overly-simplified, but not by much. Virtualization makes servers (and their associated storage) portable, while Data Protection Services provide alternate locations and expertise that many organizations of all sizes have been desperate for. In 2013, ESG published complete… Read more
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