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Your expert guide to data protection strategy: backup, replication, snapshots and virtualisation

Data protection is vital to all organisations. But there are many ways to approach it. From traditional and agent-based to approaches tailored to virtual environments to replication and snapshots. We walk you from the basics of backup methods to the pros and cons of different ways of protecting data and key issues in virtual machine backup.

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  • Backup fundamentals in the age of cloud

    In backup many things are pretty much as they have always been. But many things have also changed, with the latest being the advent of the cloud. This brings the possibility of the cloud as a backup target but also the need to backup applications that run in the cloud.

    In this e-guide we look at backup fundamentals like choosing incremental or differential backup as well as using snapshots to replace traditional backup. We also provide an overview of strategic considerations for backup in the age of the cloud as well as surveys of the key backup products for SMEs and enterprise deployment.

  • It's hyper converged-with-everything in today's datacentre

    Hyper-converged infrastructure has taken the datacentre by storm.

    At heart it is the marrying of compute and storage in one box, but with a couple of crucial additions.

    These are the ability to combine multiple nodes into a single cluster, with resources shared in grid-like fashion between them. And, at the same time, that is usually accompanied by a built-in virtualisation hypervisor.

    Those characteristics make hyper-converged infrastructure simple to roll out and manage, and well-suited to use cases that range from SME deployments to multiple-node enterprise implementations.

    In fact, it's almost a case of "We're all hyper-converged now", as the datacentre-in-a-box threatens to eclipse the shared storage array.

    In this e-guide we look at the key hyper-converged vendors and their products, as well as hyper-converged tailored to disaster recovery, backup, cloud functionality, and the software-defined hyper-converged products available.

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  • Backup still fundamental but the cloud changes things

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  • Focus: Disaster recovery planning and virtualisation

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  • How Nutanix improves and simplifies VMware environments

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  • Hybrid Flash: The Essential guide

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    In this e-guide we look at the key decisions you'll need to make about the blend of DRaas your organisation wants, which of the key cloud providers are best for which elements of DR service delivery, the pros and cons of moving elements of disaster recovery to the cloud and which to keep closer to home, and the 12 key steps to DRaas deployment.

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  • IT Definitions: Storage Special

    In this e-guide, we have put together a list of key definitions in storage and data protection to help you make sense of the fast-evolving storage technology landscape. From software-defined storage to non-volatile memory express (NVMe), we hope this extensive list of definitions will help you succeed in an increasingly data-driven world.

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  • Focus: Private cloud

    The private cloud is often viewed as a stepping stone for enterprises keen to tap into the business agility benefits of cloud without ceding total control over where their applications and workloads run. For some organisations, such deployments act as a test bed environment, where they can work out where best to run their workloads.

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  • Focus: on premise virtualisation

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