Prior to being an analyst I held many roles in corporate IT, including being responsible for protecting the company’s information, so I understand the absolute mission-critical nature of backup/restore and disaster recovery. However, I also understand that this is one of the hardest things to get right within corporate IT. I’ve often joked that every [...]
72% of IT Pros Want More Offsite Data Replication
Feb 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
An explosion of data being stored by businesses and the need to protect that data in the wake of recent natural disasters has 72% of organizations wanting to do more off-site data replication. This is according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Silver Peak. So what’s keeping today’s IT organizations [...]
Offsite Data Replication Becoming Mainstream (Video)
Jan 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Beyond the day-to-day mobility of data between data centers, branch offices and the cloud, it is also crucial that data be protected and kept secure. This means you need to replicate your data to another site or the cloud. If you look at recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Sandy or the Japan Tsunami and resulting [...]
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
Dec 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
First, let me get rid of a bee in my bonnet. At a recent round table, while many argued that business continuity was just one aspect of disaster recovery, I argued that business continuity and disaster recovery were two completely different things. To me, disaster recovery starts from the premise that a catastrophic failure will [...]
Credit Unions Replicate Virtual Environments Fast (Video)
Aug 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Credit unions today require high levels of data delivery and mobility over external networks. Virtualization is also leveraged by credit unions to reduce IT costs and complexities, and data is frequently replicated to secondary sites for disaster recovery (DR). Watch this video to see how Symitar, a leading IT service provider for credit unions, has [...]
Inside Accelerating Storage Replication (Video)
Jun 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Our video blog series continues, and for all of you interested in storage and data replication, this is a video interview you won’t want to miss. In this new episode, I speak with Silver Peak director of replication product management, Everett Dolgner. Everett and I discuss the topic of storage replication and accelerating data replication [...]
Moving Data Faster with Dell EqualLogic
Jun 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Disaster recovery (DR) strategies are put in place to address the need to safeguard data against natural disasters, human error and malice. Enterprises manage these risks by replicating primary data to secondary sites. But if moving primary data to the secondary DR site takes so long that it becomes difficult to ensure a current copy [...]
WANop Turbo Charges Dell DR
May 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Disaster recovery is a bit of a necessary evil in business. It’s one plan that you absolutely must have in place, but hope you never need to use. Inevitably, though, in some way, shape or form, all businesses need to do some measure of disaster recovery at some point. It doesn’t take a tsunami or [...]
In the Cloud, Many Enterprises Overlook the Most Critical Component
Feb 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
It seems that everyone today is talking about “the cloud,” but most of the discussion seems to be about putting a bunch of machines in one place to achieve elastic compute capabilities. What hasn’t received as much attention are the “networking” aspects of cloud deployments. And if there is any attention to networking, it tends [...]
Silver Bells for Silver Peak in EMC VNXe Environment
Dec 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Last week, I highlighted a cool deployment of the VX-Xpress being quickly and easily installed on HP switches at VMworld Copenhagen. This week, we look at another cool deployment by network and storage systems integrator “SSBrendan,” where he leverages VX-Xpress to help a client optimize Celerra replication with EMC VNXe. SSBrendan’s client tried to replicate a [...]
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