Managing petabytes of data is fundamentally harder than managing terabytes. Getting management wrong could cost the company thousands or worse lead data lost that could cost the company millions. Problems that you can ignore or confront with brute-force techniques with…
The reason backup strategies exist is to ensure operational continuity after someone makes a mistake, purposefully corrupts data, or hardware or software component runs afoul. Operational recovery is the day-to-day reason you backup data. It is the recovery of specific…
Scale out NAS has proven the old adage that in IT we never solve any problems; we just move them around. Scale out systems were built for a lot of reasons, and one of the chief reasons was performance; a…
Backup appliances do one thing well, store backup data. Object storage systems, as we’ve shown, can also fulfill this role. But unlike typical backup appliance they can do so much more. As a backup target, object storage systems provide an…
Your Windows-based backup server may be at risk to ransomware. That was the take away from a recent talk on ransomware at the VeeamOn conference in New Orleans. A ransomware attack could either begin at your Windows-based backup server or…
The idea of a single platform offering computing, network, and storage services with integrated data protection sounds almost utopian. What could be better than all aspects of computing already built into the system that you buy? Systems integrating functions like…
Object storage is not only perfect for backups – it seems designed for it. It’s safe, economical, and scalable – everything backup storage needs to be. Specific features in object storage make it perfectly suitable for the task of holding…
Recovery time reality (RTR) and recovery point reality (RPR) are relatively new terms that relate to recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). They refer to the difference between the actual capabilities of your recovery system and the…
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the time it takes to recover an application or server so users can login and get back to work. IT is under constant pressure to reduce this time. There are two broad methods you can…
There are two ways to improve your recovery point objective (RPO): adjust the objective, and adjust your techniques to accomplish that objective. In addition, technically only the first method changes (i.e. improves) your RPO; the second method help you to…
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