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To Snapshot Or Not To Snapshot? That Is The Question When Leveraging VNX...
For those of you who are leveraging VNX Unified File systems, were you aware that you have the ability to checkpoint your file systems? If you don’t know what checkpoints are, checkpoints are a...
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Integrating EMC RecoverPoint Appliance With VMware Site Recovery Manager
For my “from the field” post today, I’ll be writing about integrating EMC RecoverPoint Appliance (RPA) with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). However, before we dive in, if you are not familiar with...
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Do You Learn From Data Breaches And Disasters Or Observe Them?
How many articles or blog posts have you read that talked about the “lessons we learned” from 9/11, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami, the Joplin tornado, Hurricane Katrina, or <insert disastrous...
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The Future Of Cloud: Managing Your Data Without Managing Your Data
The catch phrase of the last few years has been “The Cloud”. What REALLY is the cloud? By the consumer’s definition it is when I buy a video on Amazon and magically it is available to me anywhere I...
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Protecting Exchange 2010 with EMC RecoverPoint and Replication Manager
Regular database backups of Microsoft Exchange environments are critical to maintaining the health and stability of the databases. Performing full backups of Exchange provides a database integrity...
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Faster and Easier: Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Using Zerto
Is your Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plan ready for the cloud? Remember the days when implementing DR/BC meant having identical storage infrastructure at the remote site? The capital costs...
View ArticleThe Many Faces of Archiving (And Why It Isn’t Backup)
If archiving is defined as intelligent data management, then neither Backup Technologies, nor Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) techniques, nor Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools qualify;...
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Sneakernet vs. WAN: When Moving Data With Your Feet Beats Using The Network
Andrew S. Tanenbaum was quoted in 1981 as saying “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” The underlying story on this is written in the...
View ArticleIDS Cloud Update: Zerto Technology Review
At IDS we are continuously evaluating the effectiveness of new products and partners to protect the integrity of our IDS Cloud Services. We built the IDS Cloud to deliver public, private and hybrid...
View ArticleThe Case for Disaster Recovery Validation
Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) has gotten much attention in the wake of natural and man-made disasters in the recent years. But Executives continue to doubt the ability of IT to restore business IT...
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