Using snapshots as part of your data protection strategy

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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

The Spectrum of Data Protection

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It is interesting to me how marketing folks and technical purists banter IT terms around, in hopes of sounding fresh and compelling to their customers. While “backup” is often thought of as passé or the bane of IT operations, “data protection” is perceived as more strategic, with other lofty terms such as “business continuity” and … Read more

vBlog: What if you paid for backups, like you pay for insurance?

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Many people in the Data Protection field talk about “backups” like “insurance” – where you pay a little (cost and effort) so that you won’t have to pay a lot (lost data/productivity) when calamity strikes. If that is how backup/recovery works, then what if you paid for it like insurance?  Insurance wouldn’t be affordable if … Read more