Ransomware is one of the biggest threats facing IT. What exactly is ransomware? Ransomware is a program that once installed in a system encrypts an organization’s data and the only way to get it unencrypted is to pay a fee…
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What is Ransomware?
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Encryption, Flash, Nexsan, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, Snapshots
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How Does Saturday Night Live Use Object Storage?
Saturday Night Live (SNL) veteran Matt Yonks spoke about the show’s archival challenges at a special event hosted by Cloudian at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). Matt has been with SNL for 19 years and is their Post Production…
Dell EMC Integrate DRaaS to Data Protection Portfolio
Organizations that count on EMC’s data protection software that also want DRaaS don’t have to consider switching to another solution. At Dell EMC World 2017, the company announced Data Domain Cloud DR. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) leverages the…
Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Dell, Dell World, DRaaS, EMC, Replication, RPO, RTO
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Is Mutual Mystification Part of your Disaster Recovery Plan?
It is impossible for all applications to be recovered instantly with no data loss after a disaster. But that is exactly what users expect. We find in some organizations IT avoids having the necessary conversation that brings users and application…
ChalkTalk Video: What is Cloud Based Copy Data Management?
Cloud based copy data management (CDM) has the potential to extract even more value from copy data than does conventional CDM solutions. Copy data is the copies of production data used to feed various other processes in the data center…
How to Beat Your RPO and RTO without Recovery – Quest Briefing Note
Meeting strict RPOs and RTOs requires that data protection solutions provide IT administrators better monitoring and analytics, in addition to more frequent copies. Backup, snapshot and replication are reactive solutions, that IT rightly counts on to make sure they can…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Quest, Replication, ROI, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Virtualization
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How Does Your DRaaS Get Data to the Cloud?
A DRaaS solution can use several methods to get data to the provider, each method directly impacts RPO and RTO. IT needs to be very careful to select the right method to meet the organization’s objectives and budget. The primary…
SlideShare: Capacity – Ransomware – Protection – Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid
Most organizations are looking to improve their Windows file server environment by adding capacity, developing a ransomware strategy and improving overall data protection. For most enterprises, optimizing your Windows file server means buying a new, bigger server with more capacity…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Windows
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How Do I Protect Applications Running in Multiple Clouds? – Datos IO Briefing Note
It is normal for many environments to run applications in the cloud. For some environments, the new normal is running applications in multiple clouds, as well as running applications in their own data center or private cloud. If the new…
Is There a Better Way to Backup Unstructured Data? – Igneous Briefing Note
It’s no secret that unstructured data is consuming data center tiles across the world. Structured data may have been king at one point, but the vast amount of storage in today’s data centers is being consumed by unstructured data. This…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Igneous, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, Unstructured data
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