Ransomware is a new type of threat. As a result it needs a new type of defense. The reason is simple: Backups are not enough to protect against ransomware. They are increasingly victims of the attack themselves, and they don’t…
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Why Backups Can’t Protect Against Ransomware
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Encryption, Flash, Nexsan, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot
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ChalkTalk Video: WannaCry, Snowden, Wikileaks… Is Your Data Next?
When IT defenses are compromised, the organization faces one of two challenges. Either the data is encrypted by a ransomware attack or it is copied to the attacker’s servers. In the first case, assuming data protection is in place and…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, Encryption, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI
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How to Get More from All-Flash Using Software Defined Storage
Flash often makes the hardware selection less important, but makes the software selection very important. The right software can not only ensure optimal flash performance, but also extend flash implementation beyond the typical high-transaction database use cases and into modern…
What if Archive Storage Cost More Than Primary?
Even if archive storage was the same price as primary storage, you’d still want to archive. While most in IT look at archiving as a way to reduce the cost of primary storage there is a lot more to it…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Redundancy, ROI
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How Do You End Ransomware?
Here we go again. Friday, a ransomware attack hit the England’s National Health Care System. And according to sources they are paying! Once again we are rewarding bad behavior. The only way to end ransomware is to dry up its…
How To Solve The Three Biggest HCI Adoption Challenges
Guaranteeing application performance, creating a cloud like consumption model and timing the simultaneous replacement of three data center architectures are the biggest hindrances to HCI adoption. Hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) promise to simplify a data center, making it more cloud like.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dell EMC, Dell World, EMC World, HCI, Hyperconverged, Latency, NVMe, Replication
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What is Ransomware?
Ransomware is one of the biggest threats facing IT. What exactly is ransomware? Ransomware is a program that once installed in a system encrypts an organization’s data and the only way to get it unencrypted is to pay a fee…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Encryption, Flash, Nexsan, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, Snapshots
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What is Enterprise File Sync and Share?
Enterprise file sync and share brings file synchronization and file sharing under IT control. Its competitor is public offerings that are outside of the oversight of the organization and puts corporate data at risk. For an enterprise file sync and…
Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, IBM, Latency, Synchronous
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Dell EMC Integrate DRaaS to Data Protection Portfolio
Organizations that count on EMC’s data protection software that also want DRaaS don’t have to consider switching to another solution. At Dell EMC World 2017, the company announced Data Domain Cloud DR. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) leverages the…
Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Dell, Dell World, DRaaS, EMC, Replication, RPO, RTO
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Is Mutual Mystification Part of your Disaster Recovery Plan?
It is impossible for all applications to be recovered instantly with no data loss after a disaster. But that is exactly what users expect. We find in some organizations IT avoids having the necessary conversation that brings users and application…
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