Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
Storage Frequently asked questions-Data Protection FAQ:
Data Protection FAQ
Frequently asked questions-Data Protection FAQ
Check out Eric's answers to these data protection questions or download the MP3 file and take them with you on the go.
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How will the market for virtual tape libraries change?
FAQ - Virtual tape libraries have been the easiest way to integrate disk into existing data protection infrastructures, but in a year or two, VTLs that do not have deduplicating technologies will generate little revenue.
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Why are Storage as a Service vendors targeting secondary storage applications?
FAQ - The main reason why Storage as a Service is succeeding now is because SaaS vendors are targeting secondary storage applications instead of primary storage.
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Why are dense storage platforms like storage grids becoming popular?
FAQ - Data rates are growing 50% per year, and most of that is unstructured data. Companies have to figure out how to put storage platforms in place that can store petabytes of data. That's why we're seeing the introduction of storage grids and other scale-out...
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Any other surprises in the data protection arena?
FAQ - Companies in the wide-area data services (WDS) space are using products to accelerate applications so they can run with LAN-like performance...
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Any unexpected developments in the data protection market?
FAQ - When vendors started selling products in the continuous data protection (CDP) space, they were primarily selling what we would call an enterprise CDP-type of solution...
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FAQ - The reports of tape's demise have always been greatly exaggerated. This is not a market that we see going away...
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How would you differentiate backup from archive requirements?
FAQ - The problems you are trying to solve with backup are backup window issues, and recovery point and recovery time objective issues...