Anyone who thinks you don’t need to back up cloud applications such as salesforce, Office 365 and Google Apps clearly has some thinking to do. There is no such thing as the cloud. There is only someone else’s data center.…
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The Importance of Protecting Cloud Hosted Applications
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Disk, dr, Ransomware, Replication, Tape
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Why Should You Optimize File Servers?
Windows file servers remain one of the most popular ways for an organization to store and share data between employees. One of the reasons for this popularity is when a server reaches capacity or starts to suffer performance problems it’s…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Sprawl, Windows
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Special Podcast: What does Converged, Hyperconverged, Hybrid Cloud, etc… Really Mean?
Storage Switzerland will tackle one of the biggest challenges facing IT professionals today during a special podcast. We explain what vendors mean when they use terms like converged, hyperconverged, hybrid cloud, instant recovery, continuous data protection, the list goes on.…
ChalkTalk Video: Primary Storage Should Protect Itself
Storage that protects itself aids in the data protection and disaster recovery processes without compromising traditional primary storage performance and features. It does this through a combination of its own capabilities (snapshots, basic replication as well as multi-site and synchronous…
What are the Advantages of a Purpose-Built Cloud?
Some cloud backup providers are starting to build their own clouds for their purposes. Is that a good idea? Shouldn’t they use more general-purpose cloud providers like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft? What value can be derived from having your backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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The Role of Tape in Today’s Data Center
The use of tape has certainly declined in today’s data center, but it has not disappeared – much to the chagrin of some people who are self-professed “tape haters”. They simply don’t understand why anyone would use tape in a…
How to Avoid Windows File Server to NAS Upgrades
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems were supposed to replace the Windows file server. But, Windows file servers are still the predominate means to share data within an organization. With the increase of processing power, internal storage capacity and network bandwidth,…
StorageShort: Archive is the Most Important Part of Your DR Plan
Archiving is the Rodney Dangerfield of IT process. In fact, in a recent poll performed by Storage Switzerland, a terrifying 67 percent of respondents indicated that they counted on the backup process to be part of their archive. How Are…
The Role of Backup in a Disaster Recovery Operation
Almost anything that interrupts users from accessing their applications or their data is, to them, a disaster but for most IT Professionals a true disaster is an event that causes the loss of the entire data center. Disasters of this…
Recovery From Ransomware
Ransomware, or the people who use it, are very successful in both infecting systems and extracting money from the organizations impacted by the infection. Most organizations we speak to face a ransomware infection multiple times per year, so if your…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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