Disaster Recovery Journal Spring 2023

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Target-based Deduplication’s Cloud Challenges Achieving an optimal return on investment (ROI) from applications deployed into hybrid cloud requires these applications follow IaaS design principles. The more closely applications adhere to them, the more hybrid cloud resources these applications may utilize. Many organizations already use physical or virtual target based deduplication appliances in their data centers as backup targets. Yet as organizations look to move these appliances to a hybrid cloud, they may find they cannot easily accom plish this task. Challenges organizations may encounter if moving them into a hybrid cloud include: n Unable to deploy a physical deduplication appliance to the cloud . Public general-purpose cloud providers do not permit deploying physical appliances in their clouds. They make no exceptions for deduplication appliances. Private clouds may permit using physical deduplication appliances. However,

Five Best Practices for Selecting the Right Target-based Deduplication Appliance for Hybrid Cloud Deployments By JEROME WENDT T he latest cloud adop tion statistics show up to 90% of all organi zations already use a hybrid cloud. As they Utilizing IaaS features, organizations may program matically allocate, re-assign, and migrate applications between available cloud

will find some existing data center applications may not cleanly transition to hybrid clouds. They offer no clean roadmap to using resources in the cloud and may inhibit an organization’s broader cloud adoption efforts. Target-based deduplication appliances rep resent a set of products which often fit in this category.

resources. Compute, network ing, and storage resources typify the underlying cloud resources these applications may dynamically use. However, organizations

adopt these clouds, organiza tions should seek out applica tions which capitalize on the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) features offered by these clouds.

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