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The Human Cost of Data Backup Sprawl

Data Center Knowledge

Many large enterprise data centers have taken an “add another system” approach to dealing with rapid backup data growth, writes Eric Silva of Sepaton. With this approach, they have simply added more single-node, disk-based backup targets every time they run out of capacity, or fail to meet their.

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Backblaze Completes 500 Petabyte Data Center

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Online backup provider Backblaze has a blog post announcing that they have completed a 500 petabyte data center, at the Sungard facility just outside of Sacramento, California. Storage backblaze'

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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Backup lessons learned from 10 major cloud outages

Network World

I’ve always called for independent backups of everything. Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. Fifteen years of cloud data-loss incidents gives a pretty good idea of how bad a cloud outage can be.

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Data Centers Should Trust Emergency Power to UL 1008 Listed Automatic Transfer Switches

Data Center Knowledge

When utility power at a data center fails, automatic switchover to an emergency backup power system that enables “business-as-usual” is the ideal scenario, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. But sometimes that doesn’t happen because the transfer switch itself fails.While automatic transfer switches. Industry Perspectives'

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Data Tape: Dying a Slow Death or Already Dead? » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape. I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. Data tape is not dead; however, its purpose has changed. Yet today, there are few backup administrators using this technique.

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.