As a member of a data protection, disaster recovery or storage management team in an enterprise IT organization, you already know how exponential data growth makes your job more difficult.
Even with data deduplication solutions to help reduce storage…
As a managed service provider, are you ready to take advantage of the growing demand for data protection services? The market for data protection as a service (DPaaS) is expected to grow at a 31.3 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $104 billion…
According to Statista, the total amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed in the world is forecast to increase rapidly, from 59 zettabytes in 2020 to nearly 150 zettabytes in 2024. A zettabyte, for anyone who doesn’t know offhand, is expressed…
According to a recent Red Hat survey of 950 IT leaders, 95% of the respondents stated that open source solutions are important to them. So, it’s no surprise that many organizations have adopted Red Hat Virtualization (RHV, also known as Red Hat Enterprise…
Are you relying on Microsoft services and infrastructure to protect your Microsoft 365 data? Unfortunately, native Microsoft 365 data protection falls short of the backup and restore functionality most organizations need. Businesses today need a solution…
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We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.
All is well. Megan is having a good day. She’s a SQLServer DBA and her environment is humming along. Then…. someone drops a critical table bringing efficient data retrieval to a screeching halt. Now what? It’s a weekday morning and business…
SQLServer Differential Backups make a lot of sense...they backup only what has changed. However, it seems that many Database Administrators choose not to leverage them. When digging into reasons for this, it is often because DBAs prefer to avoid some…
How has the cloud transformed your IT organization over the past decade? Most businesses today make use of the cloud in some way, whether it’s for data storage, for running software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, or as an integral part of the organization…
With exponential data growth across most organizations in all sectors, backup and recovery processes have become cumbersome and time-consuming — not to mention the drain on performance. Maybe you’ve already seen the stats put out in Domo’s recent …
I found out today that the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com have selected the finalists of the annual Products of the Year Awards for 2018, and Quest® QoreStor
has been recognized as a finalist in the Data Backup…
Anyone who’s responsible for system, application and data protection and recovery in a large, diverse IT environment knows how challenging it can be. Protecting enterprise data in a complex IT environment is time-consuming, cumbersome and often incomplete…
One of the most important items in a good backup and disaster recovery strategy is making sure that data is redundantly stored at a location beyond just the primary site. It’s important because, if something happens to our…
Differential backups make perfect sense….backup only what has changed since the last Full backup. Differential backups dramatically reduce the storage needed to maintain backups, while lowering maintenance windows associated with Full backups.
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Quest DR Series est heureux d'annoncer une nouvelle version du logiciel de déduplication et de stockage Quest DR Series v 4.0.0.3, avec le support actuel de Veeam 9.5 et RapidCIFS. Cette combinaison de technologies Veeam et Quest signifie que la série…
Three main ingredients are found within most backup solutions: 1) backup software, 2) backup agents (optional) and 3) backup repository (storage). When evaluating backup solutions, backup software typically gets the most attention due to feature set offerings…
"Save early, save often" has been sage advice passed down from one generation of computer users to the next since we began using these machines. As they have come to store more and more data and become even more integrated and ingrained in our lives…
When searching for the best solution for backing up your data, it doesn’t matter whether you are a Fortune 50, Fortune 500 or a small to mid-size organization. What does matter is whether you can find the ideal…
How quickly can you restore a coworkers deleted email? Do you have an easy way to compare differences between archived and live mailboxes? Ever been challenged with a Legal Discovery of all email in regards to content in multiple mailboxes and multiple…
by Andy Grant
I read a post recently on The Grateful DBA that describes his analysis in testing different compression levels in LiteSpeed for SQL Server and their impact on both backup size and efficiency. In his own words this is a "non-scientific,…
by Jason Hall
Continuing a string of posts on tips and tricks for LiteSpeed, I thought I would take an opportunity to discuss how LiteSpeed allows you to select databases to backup in a maintenance plan. Whether or not to use maintenance plans to backup…
Saving time and money... the ultimate goal. Uptime and SLAs are critical to hit. But really, bad things can happen – but if you're prepared, and can execute well when they do, you'll be fine.
Where are the people whose projects or mistakes…
These days everyone is talking about ‘the cloud’, and many IT administrators are thinking if they can utilise the cloud to store backups offsite, they can try and get rid of some of their dependence on tape and all the management overhead that comes…
Months ago I confessed to being a data hoarder. After all, it’s just data – how can it be hoarding if you can’t see it? I hope this isn’t a huge disappointment, but I’m here to report that not much has changed on that front. My new…
