I recently wrote a number of posts covering HYCU, a data protection software solution from HYCU Inc. During the testing I was curious to understand how easy it would be to automate the build of a dedicated backup environment. Here’s what I found. HYCU Recap HYCU is a software product that was written specifically for… Read more »
Vendors like to claim that their software is “1-click” or installable within 30 seconds. In general these claims are pretty fatuous unless you’re either frequently deploying or looking to automate. I’ve been spending a bit of time looking at a range of storage solutions that are fully software-defined and seeing how easy that deployment process… Read more »
Data protection has featured heavily on the blog over the past few months. Solutions are moving on from the traditional self-build of the last 15 years to more targeted software and appliances. Another company doing something different with data protection is HYCU, formerly Comtrade Software. The company recently rebranded and released version 3.0 of their… Read more »
Data replication is a core enterprise feature for implementing data protection. Synchronous replication provides the ability to maintain an identical copy of data at another location. While not a panacea for every problem, sync replication simplifies the protection process for servers and applications that are contained on one or more LUNs/volumes. INFINIDAT recently announced InfiniSync,… Read more »
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. The name Veritas is synonymous with storage, both in the area of file systems and data protection. Anyone… Read more »
Congratulations to the team at Datos IO for their acquisition by Rubrik. It’s hard enough getting funded in the first place, but surely a joy to become part of a bigger entity that justifies the original vision. Is this purchase a one-off for the industry or perhaps part of a larger backup consolidation? Old and… Read more »
Hallowe’en turned out to be a real fright for some Google Docs users yesterday as access to content was blocked due to a buggy code push. The result was that certain content was flagged to have broken Google’s Terms and Conditions. As widely reported, for some users this could have been a real issue, had… Read more »
This is a series of posts covering critical features for object storage platforms and extends on this post from the beginning of 2017. Previous Posts Object Storage Essential Capabilities #1 – Scalability Protecting data in an object store represents different challenges to those for traditional storage. In block-based storage, for example, capacity reaches a level… Read more »
Previously we discussed the use of content migration tools to get data into public cloud services. Another alternative is to ship entire virtual machines into the cloud, including the application and data. Why VMs? Why would it be more practical to ship an entire VM than just the data? In some instances and with some… Read more »
