Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is an ideal cloud use case. DRaaS uses a cloud provider’s resources and allocates them on-demand to an organization in the midst of a disaster. With DRaaS, organizations no longer need to worry about…
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The Questions You’re NOT Asking Your DRaaS Provider
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication
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How to Evolve From Unstructured Data Protection to Unstructured Data Management
A recent report from Igneous, “The State of Unstructured Management 2018,” indicates that most IT professionals are not satisfied with their ability to meet organizational expectations about the backup, recovery, and retention of their unstructured data sets. The value that…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Privacy, Igneous, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, ROI, UDM, Unstructured data
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Backup has Fallen – How Cyber Threats are Compromising Your Backup System
Most IT professionals consider the backup process the last line of defense in their efforts to protect the organization from cyberattacks like malware, ransomware, phishing, data extraction, and internal rogue employees. The problem is bad actors are breaching this last…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, HotLink, Malware, Metadata, Ransomware
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Keeping Office 365 Data Safe with Veeam and KeepItSafe
Beyond Microsoft’s clear position on data, “it’s your data”, it makes more sense to protect Microsoft Office 365 than potentially any other SaaS platform. Office 365 has on-premises versions, so when IT recovers data on-premises the organization can actually operate…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Hybrid, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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eBook: If You Can’t Consolidate Storage Manage It
According to several surveys, most data centers have at least six storage systems, and multiple vendors are supplying those systems. If consolidating storage systems is on your IT whiteboard this year, then our new eBook, “Overcoming the Problems with Storage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, Flash, LUN, MySQL, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Solving The Challenge with Endpoint Data Strategies
Applying data center data management best practices to endpoints is particularly challenging. As discussed in our prior post, there is the physical challenge that most organizations have hundreds if not thousands of endpoints and those endpoints are mobile. Managing and…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, GDPR, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Malware, Ransomware, WAN
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How to Backup Office 365
The case for protecting Office 365 is undeniable. First, Microsoft’s license agreement makes it very clear that the data stored on its service is the user’s and it is the user’s responsibility to protect it. Second, it makes sense to…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, Replication, SaaS
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Endpoints – From Laptop Backup to Total Data Management
Today, even basic and consistent backups of endpoints are a rarity. Given all the threats that an organization faces, and the uniqueness and value of the data found on user devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones, endpoint protection is critical…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, GDPR, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Malware, Ransomware, WAN
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The State of Enterprise Cloud Storage
Cloud storage is typically known for its seemingly infinite capacity and low upfront costs. It also is operationally more economical since the organization does not need to house all the gear in its data center. The outsourcing of the hardware…
What Ever Happened to the Software Defined Data Center?
About a decade ago, VMware introduced the vision of a software-defined data center (SDDC). Unlike data centers of yesteryear, a software-defined data center was supposed to leverage intelligent software and commodity hardware to create a flexible data center that could…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hypervisor, IOPS, Machine Learning, NVMe, Object Storage, SDDC, Software Defined, Thin provisioning
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