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What are the biggest mistakes or misconceptions you see today about replication and backup? The biggest misconception is that replication and backup are interchangeable terms. They are not. This is the same kind of problem that confused so many people about the terms “backup” and “archive.” A long-term backup isn’t an archive, because the retention … Read more

How does replication fit with snapshot backup as part of a data protection strategy? And what are the biggest mistakes or misconceptions you see today about replication and backup? We are seeing big upticks in adding replication to snapshots and traditional backup. In fact, in ESG’s recent report on data protection strategies for highly virtualized … Read more

What is the ideal use case for snapshots as part of your overall data protection strategy? Snapshots are almost always achieved on the same storage solution as the primary data, so they are great for near-term rollback to a previously good point. Some snapshot solutions also provide some interesting data access scenarios, where the same … Read more

I know in the past snapshotting was used for availability rather than backup. What is driving interest in using the technology as part of a data backup strategy? The fun part about snapshots, other than the near instantaneous rollback of data and some other data management agility capabilities, is that the debate of backup technologies … Read more

Continuous data protection (CDP) seems attractive for people who want to speed backup and recovery times, but are you seeing any increase in adoption? It depends on your definition of CDP. If you are asking about the textbook (SNIA) definition for CDP, I really have not seen it take off the way that it could … Read more