As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
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The Evolution of Ransomware – Is Backup Safe?
When ransomware first appeared in data centers, it had a simple attack pattern. Once it landed inside the data center, the malware tried to encrypt every file as fast as possible. If IT didn’t have good backups, the organization was…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, Snapshots
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Software Defining Secondary Storage – Quest QoreStor Briefing Note
Secondary storage systems primarily store backup and archive data. These systems often store ten to twenty times the capacity of primary storage systems. Vendors realize the opportunity and are now flooding into the market. Most of the solutions are turnkey…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Encryption, MS-SQL, NFS, Quest, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, Software Defined, VM
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Creating Flow for Successful Disaster Recovery – NAKIVO Briefing Note
Nakivo 8 – Disaster Recovery Workflow Many backup and replication software solutions claim to help organizations recover from a disaster but just as backups are more than copying data from point A to point B, disaster recovery is more than…
Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Hyper-V, Nakivo, Replication, RPO, VM, VMware
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Why Cloud Backup Doesn’t Work for Enterprises and How to Fix it
Protecting the enterprise remains a big challenge facing data centers. Backup touches and interacts with almost every component of the data center, and in the enterprise where there are more of those components; the chance for failure is high. At…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, Replication, SaaS
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Making Primary Storage Fulfill the 3-2-1 Rule
The 3-2-1 rule states that an organization should have three copies of data on two different types of media, with IT storing one copy off-site and preferably offline. Traditionally, organizations count on the backup process to meet the 3-2-1 rule’s…
Building a Better Backup Appliance – iXsystems Briefing Note
When it comes to storing backup data, IT professionals have a lot of options from which to choose. Dedicated backup appliances tend to be the most popular selection. Another option is using the backup software’s built-in storage capabilities and building…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, iXSystems, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshots, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Using the Cloud to Fix Backup’s Blind Spot – Endpoint Data Protection
Many data centers unwittingly have a blind spot in their backup strategy, endpoints like laptops and other devices are left exposed. Most organizations have no formal endpoint data protection strategy even though studies indicate that over 60% of data on…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Demo, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration
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How to Reduce the TCO of Data Protection Infrastructure
The growth of primary storage has an exponential effect on data protection infrastructure. Demands to protect data more frequently, recover faster and retain data longer promise to make the situation worse. The total cost of ownership (TCO) of the data…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Hypervisor, Replication, Rubrik, TCO, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups? And How You Can Fix Them Quickly
Backing up VMware successfully has always been a challenge. The introduction of the cloud ever increasing scale of VMware infrastructure continues to give backups fits and makes it even harder. Please join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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