Ransomware is the latest and greatest threat from those wishing to profit from doing harm to data. While it started as a threat to consumer data, it is clearly expanding into a full-on assault against corporate data, which costs companies…
Yearly Archives: 2016
How and Why to Protect Against Ransomware
Tagged with: Backup, CDP, Encryption, Malware, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, SMB, Snapshot
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Webinar: Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise
Object Storage promises many things – unlimited scalability, both in terms of capacity and file count, low cost but highly redundant capacity and excellent connectivity to legacy NAS. But, despite these promises object storage has not caught on in the…
Be afraid – very afraid – of Ransomware
If you’re not afraid of ransomware, you either haven’t thought about it or you thought about it enough to be very prepared for it. Ransomware is nothing but an electronic way of stealing money from you or your company, and…
Building a Cloud Storage Toolkit – What Types of Cloud Storage are There?
Cloud storage is a broad term that covers a lot of different storage types. Generally it should be reserved for storage that resides outside of an organization’s data center. Typically your data goes to one of the larger public cloud…
How hard is it to do DR for VMware/Hyper-V?
You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…
Tagged with: dr, HCI, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Is your Filer running out of Steam?
Filers can start out so fast and end up so slow. How is that possible? A lot of companies buy a new filer and run a few performance tests against it, and they’re happy with what they see. The problem…
Object Storage FAQ
One of the things I like about Spiceworks is the website’s user forums. They give a good sense of what is going on in the trenches of IT. Recently a user asked a series of questions about Object Storage. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Harnessing the Data Beast
Briefing Note: Komprise Releases Effective Data Management Solution As organizations today struggle to contain runaway data sprawl from an ever-increasing avalanche of unstructured data, they are aware that a significant amount (as much as 90 percent in many cases) of…
Webinar: How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy Applications
Agile IT: it is far easier to say than to implement. But data centers need to make the move to Agile IT so their organizations can survive the digital transformation. At the heart of these efforts are modern DevOps environments…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Putting the P Back in Disaster Recovery Planning
It seems that sometimes we forget the third letter in the acronym “DRP” (Disaster Recovery Planning). The “P” stands for “planning” and it is something that busy data center administrators replace with “make it up as you go along”. The…
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 