Every now and then a technology comes along that prompts enterprises to a complete do-over of their existing data center infrastructures. This type of dramatic change is already occurring within organizations of all sizes who are adopting and implementing SimpliVity.
Every now and then I hear rumors in the market place that the only backup software product that Dell puts any investment into is Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery while it lets NetVault and vRanger wither on the vine. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this third and final part of my interview series with Michael Grant, director of data protection product marketing for Dell’s systems and information management group, he refutes those rumors and illustrates how both the NetVault and vRanger products are alive and kicking within Dell’s software portfolio.
Small, smaller and smallest. Those three words pretty well describe the application and file recovery windows that organizations of all sizes must meet with growing regularity. The challenge is finding tools and solutions that enable them to satisfy these ever-shrinking recovery windows. In this second part of my interview series with Michael Grant, director of data protection product marketing for Dell’s systems and information management group, he elaborates upon how the latest features available in Dell’s data protection line enable organizations to meet the shrinking SLAs associated with these new recovery objectives.
In the last few years, anytime I get an update on new features from almost any provider of data protection products, I can almost guarantee they will talk about how they have improved their ability to do recovery. But perhaps no one better articulated why they need to improve recovery than Michael Grant, director of data protection product marketing for Dell’s systems and information management group. In this first installment in my interview series with Michael, he summarizes some of the latest features available in Dell’s data protection line and why organizations are laser-focused on recovery like never before.
DCIG is pleased to announce the availability of its 2015-16 Hybrid Cloud Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide that evaluates and ranks more than 100 features from nearly 60 different hybrid cloud backup appliances from ten (10) different providers.
Organizations have long wanted to experience the thrills of non-disruptive backups and instant application recoveries. Yet the solutions delivered to date have largely been the exact opposite offering only unwanted backup pain with very few of the types of recovery thrills that organizations truly desire. The new Dell DL4300 Backup and Recovery Appliance successfully takes the pain out of daily backup and puts the right types of thrills into the backup and recovery experience.
Today backup and recovery looks almost nothing like it did 10 years ago. But as one looks at all of the changes still going on
Today backup and recovery looks almost nothing like it did 10 years ago. But as one looks at all of the changes still going on in backup and recovery, one can only guess what backup and recovery might look line in another 5-10 years. In this ninth and final installment of my interview series with Brett Roscoe, General Manager, Data Protection for Dell Software, he provides some insight into where he sees backup and recovery going over the next decade.
Data protection has evolved well beyond the point where one can backup and recover data doing once a day backups. Continuous data protection, array-based snapshots, asynchronous replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery in the cloud and long term backup retention are now all part of managing backup. However, the real question becomes, “Can one product even manage all of these different facets of backup and recovery? Or should a backup solution even try to accomplish this feat?” In this fifth installment of my interview series with Brett Roscoe, General Manager, Data Protection for Dell Software, we discuss this very important question of whether one backup product can do it all in today’s data center.
There are so many options available in today’s next generation of backup and recovery tools that sometimes it can be tough to prioritize which features to implement. In this third installment of my interview series with Dell Software’s General Manager, Data Protection, Brett Roscoe, we discuss four (4) best practices that organizations should prioritize as they implement next generation backup and recovery tools.
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