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Today it is Really All About the Integrated Solution

May 23, 2014

As I attended sessions at Microsoft TechEd 2014 last week and talked with people in the exhibit hall a number of themes emerged including “mobile first, cloud first”, hybrid cloud, migration to the cloud, disaster recovery as a service, and flash memory storage as a game-changer in the data center. But as I reflect on the entire experience, a statement made John Loveall, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Windows Server during one of his presentations sums up to overall message of the conference, “Today it is really all about the integrated solution.”

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VMware Takes Big Step Up in Virtual Server Backup with VDP Advanced 5.5

October 23, 2013

VMware recently announced the enhancement of its VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced product at the European edition of VMworld. The features and developments included in the 5.5 release decisively provide a robust backup and recovery package for SMBs, both on the high and low end, while becoming a viable alternative for enterprises looking to protect remote datacenters and office locations.

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PHD Virtual’s ReliableDR Adds DR Assurance, Subtracts Cost and Risk

April 2, 2013

PHD Virtual’s recent acquisition of the ReliableDR product is a win for businesses stuck in a manual approach to disaster recovery (DR). PHD Virtual Backup already provides VMware environments with reliable backup, replication and recovery tools. ReliableDR adds service recovery testing against RPOs/RTOs and disaster recovery orchestration to enable businesses achieve what PHD Virtual calls “DR assurance”.

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Hurricane Sandy’s Aftermath Exposes Shortcomings of Even the Best Laid Disaster Recovery Plans

November 2, 2012

Everyone in the US and maybe in the world seems to know about the impact that Hurricane Sandy had on the Northeastern part of the United States. The scope of the devastation resulting from Hurricane Sandy is absolutely devastating with the aftermath of recovering from it almost more difficult than weathering the storm itself. If anything, Hurricane Sandy highlights just how difficult it is to plan for a disaster and the many different and unexpected ways companies need to be prepared to respond to a disaster.

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“Archive, Replicate, Recover” is a Natural Progression to the Cloud; Interview with AIS VP of Network Engineering Steve Wallace Part II

July 9, 2012

Crawl. Walk. Run. That progression pretty well summarizes how most people look to take advantage of cloud service providers over time though, in cloud services terminology, the progression may be better summed up as: Archive, Replicate, Recover. Today I conclude my conversation with American Internet Service’s VP of Network Engineering, Steve Wallace, as we examine how many of AIS’ clients initially get their data into the AIS cloud and then expand their use of AIS cloud services over time.

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Information Governance: The Proactive Approach

November 8, 2011

You hear the words and phrases repeated in legal offices, data centers, break rooms, and boardrooms: liability, indemnity, retention, regulators, act of discovery, compliance. The discomforting sound of Information Governance contains echoes of cost, complexity, inconvenience, and potential penalties.

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How Virtualization May Be Helping Keep the Internet Afloat

June 17, 2011

As I was watching the local 10 o’clock news last night to catch up on the latest on the flooding in the surrounding Omaha area, I was hit by a piece of unexpected news. The Army Corps of Engineers had earlier in the day released a map and began to warn residents that a major portion of downtown Omaha could be under as much as 10 feet of water should a levee that borders the Missouri River fail. Yet what many do not know is that the Omaha area is the home for datacenters of many of the world’s largest and most well-known Internet companies such as Google, Paypal and Yahoo.

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Two Cool Technologies at Spring SNW 2011 That May Get Hot Later This Year

April 8, 2011

Having come out of the data center and spent many years now as an analyst, it is difficult for me to get overly excited about any new storage technologies that I see at Storage Networking World (SNW.) While these technologies are most certainly “cool,” in the stoic world of storage the odds of them going “hot” are often slim. But at this Spring 2011 SNW, the Nimbus Data Systems S-class and HP Data Protector Instant Recovery look to have above average chances of breaking through.

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Backup Automation, Protection of Millions of Files and Bare Metal Restore Lead One MSP to Select R1Soft

September 29, 2010

Back at the end of July I took a look at why traditional backup software approaches are faltering at managed service providers (MSPs) and new solutions such as those from R1Soft are having such success with these providers. Since then I have had an opportunity to speak with GSI Hosting, an MSP in Kansas City, MO, who explained why it opted for R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection instead of a more traditional backup solution.

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The Real End Game of Virtualization is Automated IT Operations

September 17, 2010

Some seem to think that virtualization for the sake of virtualization is the proper business objective because of how it helps reduce server and storage footprints, utilize physical resources more effectively or ultimately lower costs. Certainly these are proper short term goals but the real end game of virtualization is not simply to create a virtualized data center environment. It is to create one that fully automates IT operations.

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