Key Concepts and Best Practices for OpenShift Virtualization

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Application-Consistent vs. Crash-Consistent Backup

It’s no secret that data backup is a crucial practice for any organization. However, it’s important to ensure your backups occur in a format that makes it as fast to restore as possible. Ideally, for database applications, your data protection solution will capture complete cloud workloads with application-consistent or crash-consistent backups. But what, exactly, is […]

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RTO and RPO

It can be a struggle to determine and quantify an acceptable level of risk for your organization, and disaster recovery is no exception. RTO, which stands for Recovery Time Objective, and RPO, which stands for Recovery Point Objective, help reduce the ambiguity at an operational level. So you have a pragmatic framework you can use to plan

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Multi-Tenant

Multi-tenant clouds are environments in which multiple users, or “tenants,” can reside on one or multiple applications, running on the same cloud, with data isolation that ensures the privacy of each tenant’s data. Tenants share a common access with specific privileges to the software or application and can be a single individual, an entire department,

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How to Start Your Journey to OpenStack Deployment

For enterprise users, the journey to OpenStack deployment is fueled by the business opportunity of what lies ahead. IT systems were previously misunderstood as a crutch of sorts — something that plays a backseat role to the overlying business activities. However, with today’s emphasis on the cloud and particularly the opportunity with OpenStack, IT’s role

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Don’t Bother with Anything but Cloud Native Backup Solutions for OpenStack

Importance of Cloud Backup Solutions for OpenStack If you’re using any sort of cloud infrastructure, it’s absolutely imperative that you employ cloud-native backup to help support and extend your cloud. I know, I know–you’ve already got dozens of vendors set up with seemingly compelling Band-Aids for your latest crop of problems, but I promise you:

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