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[EN] Service Level Objectives for vSphere Clusters #VMware #vExpert #VeeamVanguard

Last few weeks I had a lot of discussions on how to make a VMware Private Cloud Environment accountable or measurable. In some situations, you need to design an environment that meets one or more Service Level Objectives (SLO) or you have a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with consumers of the platform. But at least you need some measurable values to scale your environment as needed. In all of…

Latest Storage Q&A "The future of Data Protection Software"

Recently I sat down with George Crump, founder of Storage Switzerland, and Scott Baker, Director of Enterprise Data Protection from HP’s Data Protection Division to discuss what the next generation data backup solutions might be.

Data is growing not only in terms of capacity, but also in terms of value. The data process needs to evolve not only to meet the recovery demands of the enterprise, but…

Latest Storage Q&A: Data Protection intelligence with HP and StorageSwiss

Backup and Recovery are vitally important to what we do in the Data Center. We can’t lose data and if something happens, we MUST get them back and you have to recover them fast. To help you have success in your backup and recovery, Storage Switzerland founder George Crump met with Amy Reed from Synnex and HP’sScott Baker. Scott is HP’s Director of Enterprise Data Protection. This is a…

Latest Blog by @georgeacrump "Backing up the Agile Data Center"

The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection strategy is a nightmare. In last week’s webinar, “Three Steps to Backup & Recovery Success“, we discussed how to develop a strategy to specifically…

Latest Blog by @georgeacrump "Can Dell be a leader in the Software Defined, Converged Data Center?"

IDC recently recognized Dell as the leader in total terabytes sold (internal and external), and strengthened our stance that Dell is well positioned as we continue down the road to software defined storage and converged infrastructure. Dell is unique among storage vendors like EMC and NetApp in that they have a server product offering that’s not only popular with IT professionals, but also with…

Latest Blog by @georgeacrump "Backup success needs a fresh approach"

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Data protection is something that seems so simple, all you have to do is copy data from primary storage to secondary storage. The process becomes complex, however, as you add requirements like backing up live data non-disruptively while also enabling rapid recoveries. In short, backup complexity is increasing. Now data protection includes backing up hundreds of virtual servers…

Upcoming Live Webinar - Three steps to Backup & Recovery Success

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Let’s face it, data protection is more broken than ever. Data center initiatives like virtualization and big data analytics as well as the general expectation of users that everything be up all the time, have created an almost impossible set of challenges to which IT planners need to respond. In this live webinar, join experts from Storage Switzerland, HP and Synnexas we provide…

Latest Briefing Note by @georgeacrump "CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP"

Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data protection) is not only a new application, it takes a new approach to solving the data protection nightmare that exists in many data centers today.

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