The cloud, the cloud! The amount of media hype around cloud is at an all time high. No matter where one goes now you see cloud being pushed on you. The little TV screen in the back of New York cabs, high above us in the United terminal at SFO… it’s all over the place. [...]
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 [...]
The Changing Face of IaaS
Feb 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In a recent blog post I stated that 2013 will be a pivotal year for the use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. I will use my next two posts to elaborate on some of the changes that I see happening in that environment. The initial set of IaaS solutions that were brought to market by Cloud [...]
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 [...]
Is Your WAN Ready for the Next Generation of Backup and Recovery?
Jan 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So what did Santa bring your IT department this winter? If it was a shiny new disk-to-disk backup box to help protect your growing data storage estate, as it may have been for many organizations away from the bleeding edge, it is time to sort out how well this is going to fit with the [...]
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 [...]
United Drug Meets RPO, Reduces Disaster Recovery Costs (Video)
Dec 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When United Drug in Ireland needed to replicate 20 terabytes (TB) of data in a very short time window, they turned to Silver Peak to accelerate their EMC RecoverPoint remote replication. Network issues had prevented the company from meeting its recovery point objectives (RPO) for replicating data between the company’s main site in Dublin, a second production [...]
How ZLTO met a five minute RPO
Nov 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lots of companies around the globe are deploying Silver Peak with Dell EqualLogic to accelerate their offsite replication workloads. ZLTO in the Netherlands is a perfect example. ZLTO handles national relations for over 18,000 farmers across the Netherlands, but with data volumes on the rise, the association was having difficulty meeting its recovery point objective [...]
Silver Peak Velocity for Dell Compellent (Video)
Nov 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Want to achieve up to 30x faster offsite replication with Dell Compellent. This is a video demonstration of Silver Peak Velocity for Dell Compellent. Silver Peak Velocity is a replication acceleration solution designed specifically for the storage manager. In lab testing, the combined Silver Peak and Dell Compellent solution delivers 6x to 30x better replication [...]
Alaskan Credit Union Mirrors 10x More Data in Half the Time
Oct 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When more than 18 feet of snow can bury a whole town, a strong disaster recovery (DR) and business strategy is a must. Especially if you are a financial institution like Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union (Denali) that is looking to expand its online banking services. However, Denali’s wide area network (WAN) was insufficient for moving large amounts [...]
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