When most vendors talk about solving an organization’s storage problems, they typically are talking about solving their challenges in one of three categories: the data center, the edge or the cloud. The reality is that even within these three categories,…
Organizations look to change data protection software for a variety of reasons. Two of the most popular involve the cloud; cloud backup storage and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). There are many problems though with switching software and the…
In my last blog “The Problem with Gold-Only Data Protection Service Levels” we looked at how to design a gold service level for data protection and what the pros and cons of that approach are. In this entry, we look…
When organizations attempt to create a hybrid cloud storage architecture to manage costs better and ease on-premises storage requirements they face a significant hurdle, dealing with the latency between on-premises storage and cloud-based storage. The transfer of files between these…
Public Cloud Storage solves many of the challenges facing IT planners as they try to address the rampant growth of data within their data centers. Storing this ever growing quantity of data is causing problems for both primary and secondary…
Object Storage is a storage technology that IT planners should include in their plans for 2019. The headline feature of object storage is incredibly low-cost storage that scales to meet almost any capacity demand. It’s true that object storage is…
Join Storage Switzerland, Caringo, Cloudian and Scality, for a roundtable discussion on Object Storage. Learn what you need to know to develop a strategy for object storage. Our panel of experts discuss what object storage is, what is better/different about…
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…
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is potentially one of the best use cases for cloud resources. DR sites owned by the organization are expensive to set up and maintain as well as challenging to get to when a disaster…
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…
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