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4 Questions IT Managers Can Ask to Strengthen Data Backup and Resiliency

Solutions Review

Consistently back up your data, including offsite and offline copies, and conduct rigorous testing of data recovery processes. Even if you diligently follow the 3-2-1 rule and define your backup and resiliency plan, ongoing monitoring and improvement are essential.

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4 Questions IT Managers Can Ask to Strengthen Data Backup and Resiliency

Solutions Review

Consistently back up your data, including offsite and offline copies, and conduct rigorous testing of data recovery processes. Even if you diligently follow the 3-2-1 rule and define your backup and resiliency plan, ongoing monitoring and improvement are essential.

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Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data

Pure Storage

Fast-forward a few years, and Ewart wanted to introduce real-time replication to protect data and minimise risk. Instead, replication happened on a timed basis, posing a risk for both resilience and for data recovery if something went wrong. But this wasn’t possible on the existing hard disk arrays.

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Disk Is Done When It Comes to Backups

Pure Storage

The Trouble with PBBAs When you design something specifically to ingest data, you make software sacrifices that result in slow data recovery. PBBAs use deduplication techniques that spread stored data blocks all over the place. This results in loads of disk thrashing to re-assemble that data when it’s time to recover.

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Hamilton Health Care System Sets Its Sights on Five-Star Patient Care

Pure Storage

“I was in a meeting with our CIO, who asked if we had enough storage capacity to handle some new imaging devices. Hamilton’s IT team also has gained peace of mind in their data recovery and backup capabilities. The fact that we can restore our entire data center in under an hour is pretty remarkable,” says Fowler. .

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AWS SAN and the Benefits of Purpose-Built

Pure Storage

Cyber-Security: SafeMode ™ provides data recovery in case of a ransomware attack, as well as always-on data-at-rest encryption. Consistency and Data Mobility: Efficient data movement, consistent features, APIs, management, integrations, across clouds and on-premises.

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Software-Defined Backup vs. Appliances; What’s the Difference?

Solutions Review

The primary goal of the backup solution is to protect the ever-increasing amount of mission-critical data in the daily backups, eliminate tapes to simplify the backup process with a backup system that optimizes data management, data recovery, data storage, and retention.

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