Learn replication best practices for use with backup

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Can you outline some best practices around using replication in your backup strategy? Are there common mistakes you see replication users making today? The most important advice that I give to try to help people understand is to first define the range of recovery scenarios that you need for your business: Do you require near-immediate … Read more

Near-CDP FAQ: Snapshot, replication and backup

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While continuous data protection (CDP) is a viable alternative for users looking to improve their backup and recovery times, there are questions as to whether it’s becoming a more popular option among adopters. However, according to Jason Buffington, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, near-CDP is seeing an uptick in use. In this FAQ … Read more

Which backup products should I test?

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An open letter to my IT Pro friends: It’s been several months since I last set up my Dallas test lab for playing with the various Data Protection products in market. I used to change one of the backup tools every few months, but it’s been a busy year, so I am going to refresh … Read more

Channel and Service Provider Opportunities in Protecting Virtualized Environments

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As VMworld kicks off, I wanted to share some insights from ESG’s recently published “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In a new research brief that ESG published this morning, we look at the ‘skills gap’ for data protection and virtualization. Click Here to check it out. As IT organizations move from 20% to … Read more

Common misconceptions about replication, backup today

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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