Large enterprises are feeling the pressure of Big Data in every way possible. They have more data to store, more information to access and less time than ever to back it up, secure it and then recover it. It is in this area of backup and recovery that enterprises need better options to protect their data while also alleviating mounting security concerns. The Sepaton S2100-ES3 2925 with its new V7.0 software provides them with the match they want. (read more)
Encryption's value is no longer in question in large enterprises. Rather the broader challenge they face as they look to manage petabytes of data in complex backup environment is, "How to overcome the substantial costs and time required to manage encryption keys?" An answer to these concerns is finally at hand in the form of the newly available Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP). (read more)
Business continuity and disaster recovery have been "top" priorities for many enterprises going back at least a decade. However it is difficult to keep these strategic objectives at the "top" of the priority list when they encounter operational headwinds brought on by age-old tactical backup concerns such as increasing backup capacities and performance. Tackling these complementary but often conflicting priorities requires the implementation of a solution that delivers on both of these objectives. (read more)
No one disputes that enterprise backup has changed significantly in the last decade with the introduction of disk as a backup target and deduplication being the largest contributors to that shift. But in the last few years, array-based snapshots are emerging as the next big wave in how enterprise data protection will be done. As that shift occurs, it becomes more critical than ever for organizations to understand the right role for disk-based backup solutions to play in today's new world of array-based snapshots. (read more)
Disk-based backup and deduplication have been godsends for many organizations looking for a fast, effective way to protect and store their growing amounts of data. However Oracle DBAs still sometimes feel like these two technologies have come up short in ways that have not adequately been addressed. SEPATON's new DBeXstream technology changes this by giving Oracle DBAs access to these two technologies with the corresponding increases in throughput and deduplication ratios that they were originally led to believe they would see. (read more)
"Impossible. Nobody can jump this." Enterprise technology buyers and IT administrators who have seen the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade can relate to how Indy feels as he looks across a great chasm and is asked to step out in faith. But too often these individuals may feel the same way when asked to make an enterprise technology buying decision with little more information than what Indy possessed. (read more)
It is 2010 and time to deduplicate, at least that's what 60% of the respondents in a recent IDC survey had to say. However once an enterprise has said it is going to deploy deduplication is the easy part. It gets a little tougher to find a deduplication solution that meets their diverse needs of affordability, high availability, scalability and simplicity. It is these enterprise hot buttons that the new SEPATON S2100-MS2 seeks to hit. (read more)
About a year ago I started to contemplate writing a book on the topic of 'Backup Redesign for Enterprise Organizations'. I even went so far as to register the domain name www.backupredesign.com in anticipation of writing and releasing a book on that topic. Fast forward to today and I am still examining how to best tackle the specific subject of disaster recovery (DR) in such a manner that it meets the needs of enterprise organizations. (read more)
In the last year or so a number of articles and blogs have appeared on the topic of inline and post-processing deduplication in an attempt to answer the question, "What is the best approach for deduplicating data during disk-based backup?" Unfortunately what these pieces fail to quantify is, "What objectives are enterprise organizations looking to accomplish with disk-based backup and recovery?" The problem this creates is that without first establishing these objectives, it makes it very difficult to arrive at any sort of meaningful conclusion about how to best proceed with deduplication. (read more)
Perhaps the biggest industry buzz coming out of the October 2009 SNW show was not any product announcement or new technology but an interview with EMC's Frank Slootman that appeared on SearchDataBackup.com. Minimally this interview made a number of revelations about EMC's current strategy and future direction for its Data Backup Division. But of greater concern for those enterprises planning to use EMC's products, it revealed a lack of understanding on Slootman's part in terms of what enterprise organizations are looking for in disk-based backup and deduplication solutions. (read more)
