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Actifio GO – the Copy Data Management SaaS Platform
Over 9 years ago, we did the pioneering research in identifying that Copy Data was not only the source of exploding storage costs, but also the source of exponentially increasing time needed to protect and recover data, time needed to allow developers and analytics to access data, and the time needed to ensure governance and compliance of data. On an average, 13 copies of production data were being stored in individual silos of storage systems and at least 8 different tools were being used to manage lifecycle of data.
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Need Database Clones in AWS Immediately!
Database cloning is the process by which you create a point-in-time copy of a production database. Database cloning is usually done for different purposes:
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Why Recovery Time Objective is Horrible with AWS EBS Snapshots!
In the previous blog, we discussed the good, bad, and ugly of EBS snapshots. In this blog we will elaborate why recoveries from EBS snapshots takes a very long time.
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When EBS snapshots replicate FULLs instead of changed blocks, the AWS bill really hurts!
When EBS snapshots always replicate FULL data instead of incremental data to remote AWS regions, you may be in the "bad" situation of the the good, bad, and ugly of EBS snapshots.
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Actifio Strengthens Its Data-as-a-Service Vision with App-Centric Approach in the Multi-Cloud and DevOps Era
Leading Analyst Firm IDC Says Data-Driven Enterprises Are Finding
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Oracle Backup, Recovery & Test Data Management: Actifio vs Legacy Vendors
Even top cloud vendors like Salesforce & Amazon use Oracle database for one or more critical apps. The odds of finding an enterprise running a mission-critical application without an Oracle database is extremely low.
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Backup to the Cloud Object Storage – Actifio vs Others
It’s hard to find an enterprise who doesn’t want to use cloud object storage for their backup retentions. Why? Following are some of the reasons.
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Using SQL Copy Data for Data Protection, Test Dev and Analytics (3 of 3)
This is part 3 in our multi-part series on Microsoft SQL server, backups, recoveries, copy data management. In parts number one and two we covered SQL backups and SQL restores, in detail and talked about a lot of considerations, different approaches, pros and cons, and performance impacts. If you haven't watched those I highly recommend you do as we're building on that based on that knowledge for this particular part of the series.
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Comparing Two SQL Server Restore Methods (2 of 3)
Here for Part Two in our series on SQL Server data protection, copy data management. Part one was all about SQL Server backup methods. Once you have the data, how do you use SQL copy data, what do you use it for? Starting out with, people use it for recoveries, number one use case. There's two methods of doing those recoveries, one is what we call traditional restore and the second is instant mount. So let's compare and contrast the two, understand really what they do, and when you might want to use one versus the other.
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