An on-premises object storage solution is a versatile data platform for enterprises that can be used to archive old data to and used as a backup target and even replace some NAS use cases. But one of the challenges with…
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Is Recovery in the Cloud the New Standard
The cloud is increasingly becoming the disaster recovery option of choice. In fact, it’s really hard to argue with the cost and functionality available from the various cloud vendors that are available today. Recovering to the cloud seems even better…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Hypervisor, Replication, Tape, VM
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How to Develop a Holistic Cloud Data Management Strategy – Actifio Briefing Note
Many organizations have identified the public cloud as an important tool in their data protection and data management strategies. Vendors are quick to jump on this interest. The problem is most of the solutions vendors provide are fairly myopic and…
Tagged with: Actifio, Archive, Backup, Cloud, DRaaS, Object Storage, Redundancy, VM
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Minor Disasters Need Major Attention
The scope of a disaster is based on its sphere of influence. A major disaster impacts a wide region and causes hundreds of businesses to go into disaster recovery mode. A minor disaster impacts only a single organization and often…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery
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How to Archive Video and Audio But Still Find it – Archive360 Briefing Note
This week at Microsoft Ignite, the Azure team announced it added some interesting features to its object storage platform that dramatically increase the value of storing data in the Azure cloud. These features are just now beginning to appear in…
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Audio, Backup, Cloud, Metadata, Microsoft Ignite, Object Storage, Video
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SlideShare: Endpoint Backup is not Enough – You Need an End-user Data Strategy
More data outside of the data center is staying on endpoints and in the cloud than ever before. That means the risks to that data are also at an all time high. Plus regulations encompassing end-user data are also increasing,…
Can Ransomware Infect Your Backups? – BackupAssist Briefing Note
It should come as no great surprise that ransomware is one of the scariest challenges for data protection people today. Black hats have figured out they can make more money faster by going after small and medium businesses than simply…
Tagged with: Backup, BackupAssist, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hyper-V, Ransomware, SMB, SQL, Windows
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How Are Backup Software Products Responding to Ransomware?
Backup software products are starting to adopt anti-ransomware features – and that’s a good thing. Ransomware has clearly expanded beyond consumers and is regularly attacking businesses and government entities. But not every backup company is convinced this is a problem…
The Importance of Cloud DRaaS Performance
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves a lot of IT challenges, especially when trying to meet the organization’s need for a DR strategy. As a result, there is a glut of solutions in the market. Situations like Hurricane Harvey…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VM
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Webinar: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover…
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