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…
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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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The Advantages of a Fabric Based File System
Storage solutions that offer customers familiar, flexible interfaces (e.g.files and file attributes), while also offering advanced features like automated data movement and cloud bursting, offer a unique solution to many problems. The more seamless we can make things for the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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Are you Asking the Right DR Questions
It’s a really sad thing when a customer gets far down the path of a project and finds out it is going to fail. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve seen this happen. A customer has…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Infrascale, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape
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How to Enable the Cloud to Master Physics – SwiftStack Briefing Note
The problem with the public cloud has always been physics. We like the idea of being able to access our data anytime anywhere, but the reality often falls short. It takes a lot of horsepower to get data from point…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Google, Hybrid, M&E, Replication, SwiftStack, Sync
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StorageShort: How To Meet RPO/RTO Expectations
Organizations must meet increasingly strict recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Essentially they want their applications back up and running as soon as possible with minimal data loss. To meet these challenges IT professionals have to increase…
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, RPO, RTO
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Preparing a Site for a Disaster
Preparations for your next disaster can’t start next week, next month or right before the disaster. It has to start now. There are a lot of things you must think about and implement before the disaster strikes. You need to…
Webinar: 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…
Are People Abandoning Backup for DR?
More and more customers are demanding storage that integrates data protection. This was incredibly evident in a recent poll during one of our live webinars. Backup is moving to the front of the bus! During our recent webinar, “Is Your…
Importance of Maintaining Proper Security and Control of Data in DRaaS Environments
As my colleague George Crump discussed in his article on disaster recovery as a service, “Introducing DRaaS 2.0”, there are a number of compelling advantages in using DRaaS solutions. However, regardless of the cost savings and other advantages when organizations…
Tagged with: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Encryption, Object Storage, Quorum, VM
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