World Backup Day
According to Wikipedia, the term "Hallmark holiday" is used predominantly in the United States to describe a holiday that is perceived to exist primarily for commercial purposes, rather than to commemorate a traditionally significant event. One of my pet peeves are the made up “special occasions” that greeting card companies and others make up to drive sales of more $5 greeting cards. I’m all for celebrating mothers, letting my wife know I love her dearly, and otherwise acknowledging the important people in…
Top 5 Reasons for Disaster Recovery
With our guaranteed 15 minute disaster recovery and several years under our belt with our product, we’ve gotten an understanding of the top reasons for performing a disaster recovery and the list may surprise you: Changing storage platforms Failed ESXi data store Failed server Human error Moving data around the world What? A true disaster isn’t on the list? There’s no hurricane, earthquake, etc. on there. That’s right folks, DR is rarely performed for a true natural disaster. Let’s walk through the list and talk…
5 Storage Predictions for 2012
2011 was quite a year for the storage industry. From the billion dollar acquisitions to the disruptive flooding in Thailand, it was a year to remember. As we look forward, here are 5 storage predictions for the new year. 1. Users continue to generate piles of unstructured data Back in 2009, Gartner estimated that data growth would happen at a rate of 650% over the next 5 years with 80% of this growth coming from unstructured data. We can get lost in the weeds with facts and figures but most IT managers I’ve spoken…
Managing Backups
Protect, replicate and restore your data. How do you protect your data without being constrained and consumed by traditional backup systems, which are cumbersome and frustratingly unreliable?
Archive vs. “Archive-ish” Data
Ask anyone in IT to define “archive data” and chances are it would go something like this: “Data that is no longer active, but still needs to be kept around for future reference or regulatory compliance.” You may also get an expletive or two thrown in for good measure. In many organizations, archive data is just that, inactive data – though archive data could include recently active data and data that is 5 years old. When it comes of age, this data is generally moved off to tape or to a slower, out of the network storage…
Backup-less File Servers
In the 90s the single biggest backup challenge was the protection and restoration of databases. At the time, these were the heart of an organization. Fast forward to the present, and find that while databases are just as important, file data has become equally important. The amount of data that users create and update on a daily basis is staggering. Backing up and protecting file based data has become a nightmare for backup administrators and backup application developers alike. Solutions from companies…
Nasuni's Snapshot File Protection
Nasuni protects your data using snapshots. In the following video we'll show you how Nasuni's snapshot file protection gives you granular control over how often snapshots are taken, and how easy it is to recover data using snapshots.
Cloud Storage: Moving Beyond Backup?
Cloud Storage: Moving Beyond Backup? [Video]
Case Study Webinar: Taking the Disaster Out of Recovery
Hardware failures happen more often than expected. Regardless of whether it is for natural cause or human error, when a major piece of infrastructure fails, recovery is no easy task, unless you have implemented proper disaster recovery planning. Watch this webcast as we highlight the elements of a good disaster recovery plan and explain how Nasuni makes full and partial recoveries a simple task. Nasuni CEO, Andres Rodriguez, is joined by guest speaker and a Nasuni customer, a large manufacturing…
Why the Best Backup is No Backup
Backup as we know it is dead! Really? Well, at the very least it is evolving with the emergence of technologies with the cloud built-in. So while backup is not yet dead, technologies leveraging the cloud can and will make back up obsolete. Provocative…yes. Impossible…. Not if you’re Curtis Preston author of a courageous piece on using snapshots and replication as an alternative to backup or Andres Rodriguez author of an intriguing blog post on this topic.
Listen to cutting edge cloud storage thought leader and storage veteran Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.com as he delves into the destruction of backup as we know it.
Learn how to use cloud storage to:
- Alleviate resource constrained IT teams
- Transform backup from cumbersome to simplistic
- Revolutionize data protection and disaster recovery processes
- Create a backup system based solely on snapshots and replications
- Adhere to industry regulations regarding data retention, privacy, and security
In short, turn the impossible into possible.
