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How to evolve from “data protection” to “data management”
To evolve from backup to data protection is to embrace complementary mechanisms that enable a much broader range of preservation of data, protection of data, and the assurance of productivity through enhanced availability initiatives, as seen in ESG’s Spectrum of Data Protection.… Read more
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JBuff’s Data Protection Predictions for 2015
Last month, I sat down with my colleague, John McKnight, to give my predictions on how Data Protection will or should change in 2015 … in five minutes or less: My top areas of interest for this year include: Hope… Read more
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL
Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution. The… Read more
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Better Catalogs Make for Better Data Restores (video)
It really is just that simple: backup products without robust catalogs are just that, backup products – not restore products. There are lots of reasons that just maintaining a browse-able file list is not enough today, including not only a… Read more
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vBlog: Everyone Should Archive (period)
Everyone should archive, as a means of data management – because storage (both primary and secondary) are growing faster than storage budgets, so you can’t keep doing what you have been doing. Here is a video on the simple math… Read more
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A Quick Thought on Data Protection Economics (vBlog)
Organizations of all sizes continue to seek better ways to protect their data. Its not just because their existing backup solutions are broken (some are broken, some are antiquated/cumbersome, and others just aren’t scaling as their production systems evolve) –… Read more