Last week a legend in backup, disaster recovery, and data storage passed; Jon Toigo. My first foray into storage was thanks to Jon. His 1989 book on disaster recovery launched me into the world of data protection and high availability.…
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Balance Standardization and Flexibility to Optimize DRaaS
The need for disaster recovery is growing as always-on data availability becomes necessary for business continuity. For many organizations, bypassing the expense and hassle of purchasing, deploying and managing dedicated disaster recovery infrastructure through outsourced disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) makes sense.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Centralizing Availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup for Efficient Business Continuity – Arcserve Briefing Note
The majority of organizations are not fully confident in their ability to recover data and workloads in the event of an outage. This is due in part to legacy practices of using a myriad of point product solutions to address…
Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, SLA
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Cyber Attack on VFEmail Evaporates 18 Years of Data!
In what may be one of the most devastating attacks in recent history, email provider VFEmail is working through the aftermath of a massive cyberattack and is indicating that 18 years’ worth of its user’s email data is lost forever.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fuji, Fujifilm, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, VM
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15 Minute Friday: How to Move From Legacy DR to DRaaS
Most data centers still use a legacy DR strategy of replicating or even physically transporting backups to a dedicated disaster recovery (DR) site, or a secondary site owned by the organization. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) delivers a compelling…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Using the Cloud to Integrate Backup and Archive – HubStor Briefing Note
For decades the best practice for backup and archive was to keep the processes separate. The storage hardware products that support traditional backups are typically very different from those that support archive. The software products are also very different and…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Corruption, Data Protection, HubStor, NFS, Ransomware, SMB, Unstructured data
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Calculating the ROI of Data Protection Service Level Objective
Most data centers try to create a “best efforts” data protection strategy which treats all data and applications equally. Typically the organization uses one backup application, a single backup target device and replicates all data to a secondary site or…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Can Cloud Backup Fix Backup’s True Problem?
Cloud backup has the potential to ease backup pain while also lowering costs significantly. Most cloud backup solutions tend to focus on lowering costs, but while they claim to simplify operations, many cloud solutions are very similar to their on-premises…
Webinar: Three Steps to Modernizing Backup Storage
Backup software is continuously improving. Solutions like Veeam Backup and Replication deliver instant recoveries, enabling virtual machine volumes to instantiate directly on the backup device, without having to wait for data to transfer back to primary storage. These solutions can…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Cloudian, file sync and share, Hybrid, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, Veeam
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The Problem with Protecting the Distributed Enterprise with Traditional Backup Applications
More and more, data is being generated and processed outside of the traditional data center, for instance across a growing number of remote and branch offices as well as mobile devices and edge sites hosting Internet of Things (IoT) sensors.…
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