I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:…
There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our…
One way organizations can quickly leverage the cloud is through the use of a caching appliance or gateway. These solutions cache data locally so when users access active data they don’t deal with internet latency. When data is created or…
I am surprised by the results of a recent online poll that asked the question “What is your DR plan for your VMs?” Participants were given four choices: Built-in software replication Array-based hardware replication Third-party app Third-party backup service The…
While public cloud storage systems have enjoyed incredible growth and success, these architectures have not yet enjoyed anything close to the same success in the traditional data center. Perhaps it’s because these organizations don’t think they need it, or perhaps…
Virtual machines (VMs) need file services as much as physical servers need them. Once file services expanded beyond user home directories, administrators started using them for the storage needs of many different types of applications. Besides sharing data between multiple…
Unitrends Briefing Note To survive in the latest age of computing, backup products must move beyond backup and begin to embrace business continuity. Today’s companies want to resume business immediately after a disaster, and backup products that work “the old…
Backup and DR can be separate systems, but do not have to be. Modern advances in backup and DR technology make it possible to have a single integrated system to satisfy the needs of both, and I can think of…
Datos IO is the first product designed specifically to meet the cloud-scale backup and recovery needs of modern, scalable, non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra (DataStax), and cloud-native databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft DocumentDB and others. These…
Ransomware attacks against corporations is such a common problem that it has even made its way into television plots. Both seasons of the popular Mr. Robot television series on USA network focus on a series of ransomware attacks against a…
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