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Managing Data to Manage Ransomware

Posted on May 14, 2018 by George Crump

One of the reasons that data centers are so vulnerable to ransomware attacks is the amount of data that remains accessible on production storage. The reality is that most of this data does not need to be there. Investing in…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: 3 Steps to Controlling the Secondary Storage Deluge

Posted on May 2, 2018 by George Crump

Primary storage is no longer the most expensive tier of storage. Secondary storage, storage that stores copies, backups and archives, is now far more expensive than primary storage. The growth of this tier threatens to bury the data center under…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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Webinar: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks

Posted on April 26, 2018 by George Crump

Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Meeting the Five Unstructured Data Backup Requirements

Posted on April 25, 2018 by George Crump

In the last blog, we laid out the five requirements for unstructured data protection; fine-grained backups, frequent and rapid backups; cloud support, data classification, and an archiving future. Aparavi is one of the first data protection companies specifically focused on…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: Unstructured Data Protection Needs a New Architecture

Posted on April 23, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data has changed dramatically over the past decade. It is not only bigger in terms of capacity, it’s also bigger in terms of quantity, there are just more files to deal with than ever. On top of the increase…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Migration, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
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The Requirements for Modern Unstructured Data Protection

Posted on April 23, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data presents two challenges that organizations need to deal with; the sheer volume of data and the quantity of files in the data sets. Storing this data is a problem in and of itself, but protecting it is an…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: What’s Your Unstructured Data Protection Strategy

Posted on April 18, 2018 by George Crump

The capacity requirements of unstructured data continue to grow at an alarming rate and the rate of growth is only going to get worse. Storing is problem enough but protecting unstructured data is creating a new challenge that most data…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Migration, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
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How to Increase Backup and Recovery? – Rubrik Briefing Note

Posted on April 16, 2018 by George Crump

For most organizations, backup and recovery is their most fragile process. Any change in the environment can cause the entire data protection house of cards to come crashing down around the well-intentioned IT professionals that run it. The problem is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Hypervisor, NoSQL, Recovery in Place, Rubrik
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Solving NAS Migration Pain – Komprise 2.7 Briefing Note

Posted on March 30, 2018 by George Crump

Every few years an organization needs to purchase a new network attached storage (NAS) system. The old system either has reached its capacity limits or no longer meets the performance expectations of new users and applications. The options for a…