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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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Why Do Point Products Break Backup

Posted on April 19, 2018 by George Crump

One of the most alarming trends in data protection is the number of different solutions data centers are deploying and managing so they can keep up with the organization’s recovery expectations and budget realities. The demands for rapid recovery are…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Snapshot, Sprawl, TRO
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Webinar: Overcoming the Five Distributed Data Protection Challenges

Posted on April 16, 2018 by George Crump

One of the biggest challenges facing IT today is how to effectively protect data distributed between offices and across clouds. Companies with remote and branch locations, and newly merged organizations are all at risk of losing their critical data or…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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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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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup

Posted on April 5, 2018 by George Crump

For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Data Protection is the Key to Hyperconverged Adoption – HYCU Briefing Note

Posted on April 4, 2018 by George Crump

Most HCI systems are first purchased to be the platform for a specific greenfield project within an already busy data center. The goal is to expand HCI use as new projects come online or old ones are ready for IT…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Purpose Built, Recovery
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Can the Cloud Save IT From the Secondary Storage Deluge?

Posted on March 28, 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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Creating a Tape Exit Strategy – BridgeSTOR Briefing Note

Posted on March 22, 2018 by George Crump

While one can argue the pros and cons of a tape exit decision, no one can argue the fact that organizations are making that decision every day. If an organization decides to eliminate tape from its data protection strategy it…

Tagged with: Backup, BridgeSTOR, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, ISCSI, LTO, NAS, NFS, SMB, Tape
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SlideShare: 2018 Disaster Recovery Checklist – 5 Key Areas to Improve

Posted on March 15, 2018 by George Crump

Is your organization ready for any disaster 2018 may throw at it? Organizations not only face new threats they also encounter decreased tolerance for downtime from users. The good news is there are plenty of new solutions that claim to…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, Recovery, Unitrends, Unstructured data, VM
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SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on March 13, 2018 by George Crump

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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