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Resilience, not Data Protection, Is What Businesses Actually Need; DCIG Presents LIVE April 21 in Frisco, TX

April 1, 2026

Today businesses need resilience. They must possess the ability to withstand, respond to, and rapidly recover from disruptions—whether operational, cyber-related, or infrastructure-driven. If these trends resonate with you—and they should—there’s an opportunity to explore them live and in person further. DCIG’s Principal Analyst, Jerome Wendt, will present these ideas in person at an upcoming live event hosted by Strategic Solutions. The event will begin about 45 minutes before the start of the Tuesday afternoon, April 21st, 2026, Frisco RoughRiders baseball game in Frisco, TX.

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2 Advantages of Using an SDS Deduplication Solution in a Hybrid Cloud Strategy

June 29, 2023

Most organizations already use a hybrid cloud in some way. Of the cloud’s available offerings, cloud object storage represents the one that many use first. Organizations often initially move and store their archival and backup data on cloud object storage. Yet when they do, many also experience sticker shock. To minimize these costs, organizations need to choose a deduplication solution that embraces a hybrid cloud strategy.

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An Instant Rant on Instant Restores Using Deduplication Appliances

January 12, 2023

Every now and then a phrase shows up in the tech industry that may hurt more than it helps. ‘Instant restore’ represents one of those terms. In my mind, the word ‘instant’ implies ‘occurs in a moment.’ In practical terms, from a technical perspective, that translates into a few seconds or perhaps up to a minute or two. However, too many deduplication appliance providers use the phrase ‘instant restore’ to describe a feature of their product. Unfortunately, the use of this term may leave organizations with the impression these products instantly restore more swiftly and robustly than they do.

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Four Ways to Achieve Quick Wins in the Cloud

May 30, 2019

More companies than ever want to use the cloud as part of their overall IT strategy. To do so, they often look to achieve some quick wins in the cloud to demonstrate its value. Achieving these quick wins also serves to give them some practical hands on experience in the cloud. Incorporating the cloud into your backup and disaster recovery (DR) processes may serve as the best way to get these wins.

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Breaking Down Scalable Data Protection Appliances

May 2, 2019

Scalable data protection appliances have arguably emerged as one of the hottest backup trends in quite some time, possibly since the introduction of deduplication into the backup process. These appliances offer backup software, cloud connectivity, replication, and scalable storage in a single, logical converged or hyperconverged infrastructure platform offering that simplify backup while positioning a company to seamlessly implement the appliance as part of its disaster recovery strategy or even create a DR solution for the first time.

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Make the Right Choice between Scale-out and Scale-up Backup Appliance Architectures

March 14, 2019

Companies are always on the lookout for simpler, most cost-effective methods to manage their infrastructure. This explains, in part, the emergence of scale-out architectures over the last few years as a preferred means for implementing backup appliances. It is as scale-out architectures gain momentum that it behooves companies taking a closer look at the benefits and drawbacks of both scale-out and scale-up architectures to make the best choice for their environment.

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Number of Appliances Dedicated to Deduplicating Backup Data Shrinks even as Data Universe Expands

February 7, 2019

One would think that with the continuing explosion in the amount of data being created every year, the number of appliances that can reduce the amount of data stored by deduplicating it would be increasing. That statement is both true and flawed. On one hand, the number of backup and storage appliances that can deduplicate data has never been higher and continues to increase. On the other hand, the number of vendors that create physical target-based appliances dedicated to the deduplication of backup data continues to shrink.

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Rethinking Your Data Deduplication Strategy in the Software-defined Data Center

December 6, 2018

There is little dispute tomorrow’s data center will become software-defined for reasons no one entirely anticipated even as recently as a few years ago. While companies have long understood the benefits of virtualizing the infrastructure of their data centers, the complexities and costs of integrating and managing data center hardware far exceeded whatever benefits that virtualization delivered. Now thanks to technologies such as such as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine intelligence, and analytics, among others, companies may pursue software-defined strategies more aggressively.

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Three Features that Matter on All-flash Arrays and One that Matters Not So Much

March 1, 2018

In the last few years all-flash arrays have taken enterprise data centers by storm but, as that has occurred, the criteria by which organizations should evaluate storage arrays from competing vendors have changed substantially. Features that once mattered considerably now barely get anyone’s attention while features that no one had knowledge of a few years ago are closely scrutinized. Here are three features that organizations should examine on all-flash arrays and one feature that has largely dropped off the radar screen in terms of importance.

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A More Elegant (and Affordable) Approach to Nutanix Backups

February 15, 2018

One of the more perplexing challenges that Nutanix administrators face is how to protect the data in their Nutanix deployments. Granted, Nutanix natively offers its own data protection utilities. However, these utilities leave gaps that enterprises are unlikely to find palatable when protecting their production applications. This is where Comtrade Software’s HYCU and ExaGrid come into play as their combined solutions provide a more affordable and elegant approach to protecting Nutanix environments.

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