The best way to protect an organization from a ransomware attack is at its source, primary storage. Ransomware works by compromising a user account and then encrypting all the files that the account can access. A compromised superuser account is…
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Why Not Build Ransomware Proof Storage?
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Encryption, Flash, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot
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SlideShare: You Bought All-Flash, Now What?
Have you made the jump to all-flash storage? Are you planning to? If so this webinar is for you. We will look at what’s next after (or before) the jump to all-flash. An all-flash array brings many benefits to the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cloud, dr, HA, HPE, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, IoT
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
How Data Management Protects Against Cyber-Attacks
The reason that file data is a prime target of ransomware attacks is that most file servers are full of juicy targets that organizations are willing to pay to get back. Payment is, after all, exactly what ransomware is all…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Malware, NAS, NTP, NTP Software, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication
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Posted in Blog
StorageShort: The Recovery Paradox – Close Copy vs. Far
One of the challenges to designing a successful disaster recovery solution is where to keep copies of your data. A close copy allows for a rapid recovery in the event of a failure since it is seconds away. But in…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication
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Posted in StorageShort
SlideShare: 3 Reasons You Are Losing the Data Management Battle
And How To Start Winning Organizations managing data have a competitive advantage over organizations that don’t. But most organizations don’t have the time or tools available to implement a successful data management strategy. It’s not for a lack of trying.…
Ransomware – How To Create a Proactive Protection File Strategy
IT needs a proactive way to stop ransomware. It’s here to stay. Most ransomware countermeasures are reactive. The damage is done before IT can deploy their reactive countermeasures. When ransomware gets through an organization’s defenses, it starts to encrypt data,…
Tagged with: Backup, dr, Encryption, Malware, NTP Software, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot
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SlideShare: The Always-on Enterprise Requires New Service Level Objectives
The Always-on Enterprise is a data center that faced with even the most severe disaster can return applications to full working order in a matter of minutes. Service level objectives (SLOs) are the means by which IT and the organization…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Posted in Slideshare
How to Stop Ransomware Before The Damage Is Done
NTP Software Defendex™ Product Analysis Ransomware is, for good reason, top of mind right now. Most strategies under discussion now are actually responses, not analysis and elimination. And, because ransomware is such a profitable “business,” new versions will continue to…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, Encryption, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI
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Is it Time to De-Tape Your Archive?
Enterprises want more value from their archived data assets but tape doesn’t really enable the real-time archive that organizations need. The challenges is that any enterprise in existence for 10 years or longer more than likely has terabytes, even petabytes,…
Webinar: 15 Minute Ransomware Survival Guide
Ransomware is a new threat, and new threats require new strategies. Within the first 15 minutes this webinar will provide you key strategies for surviving a ransomware attack. During the event Storage Switzerland and Commvault cover the three P’s of…
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