Storage economics
Backup storage consolidation: When does it save money?
Consolidating several backup repositories onto one platform is usually justified before it is modeled. Fewer support contracts, less rack ...
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Backup egress costs: Estimate a full-site restore
Most teams using cloud backup storage have never calculated what a full-site restore would cost to pull back. The monthly storage bill is ...
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Storage economics
Backup deduplication ratios: What to verify in a quote
A deduplication ratio in a quote reads like a property of the product, the way rack units and drive slots are properties. It is not. It is ...
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Storage economics
Backup compression: Why savings vary by workload
Compression is one of the few things in a backup platform that behaves predictably, as long as the data type is known. The trouble is that ...
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Storage economics
Small IT teams: Count backup administration costs
Every backup comparison has rows for capacity, support and maintenance, and none for the person who runs it. In a team of three or four ...
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Integrations
Backup storage monitoring: What to send to your NOC
Backup storage monitoring tends to arrive in one of two states. Either nothing is sent anywhere, and problems are found the morning after a ...
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Integrations
Backup storage certificates: Avoid connection failures
A backup job that has run cleanly for a year fails one night with a connection error, and the first assumption in the room is that the ...
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Integrations
S3 backup compatibility: What to test beyond connection
A connection test in a backup console checks that a hostname resolves, that a TLS session negotiates, that an access key is accepted, and ...
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Integrations
Hyper-V backups: Planning the path to object storage
Hyper-V backups reach object storage through a path that resembles the VMware one in outline and differs in every detail that matters ...
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Integrations
VMware backups to object storage: Trace the data path
A backup job that used to run in two hours now runs in five, and the summary screen reports a bottleneck without saying what to do about ...
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