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Backup Retention vs. Data Retention

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: Backup Retention vs. Data Retention

A recent blog “Healthcare overspends on long term backup retention” by Veeam’sJonathan Butz discussed how healthcare organizations are creating overly complex and expensive backup infrastructure because they are considering backup as part of their records retention policy. Butz is right on the mark, but I’d like to expand the scope of the conversation beyond just healthcare, as most organizations…

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StorageShort: Server Virtualization, Storage and Rakes

Latest #StorageShort by @georgeacrump "Server Virtualization, Storage and Rakes"

What is Your Rake Moment?

There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a rake, the storage administrator is often left with a headache. Server virtualization often plays the role of the rake, creating surprise I/O demands and latency spikes.

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Hybrid Flash Array Enables Local Government to Answer the Storage Performance Call

New @georgeacrump Case Study: Hybrid Flash Array Enables Local Government to Answer the Storage Performance Call

When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators like Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and he was having those “calls” come in too often. A change was needed. For Fritz, the answer to these storage performance problems was a hybrid flash array from Tegile. Since the…

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Retroactive Deduplication and Compression

Latest Blog by @georgeacrump "Retroactive Deduplication and Compression"

In recent months there has been a lot of attention given to how primary storage deduplication is being implemented; should it be implemented selectively, or always on? The problem with this discussion is that it first assumes that the existing storage system will be abandoned, which is seldom the case. Retroactive deduplication is a technology that provides data efficiency (deduplication and…

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