Spanning Backup Up For Salesforce.com Briefing Note George Crump, Lead Analyst – Storage Switzerland The two most universal applications for businesses are the Office Productivity Suite consisting of a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation application, and the customer relationship management…
I recently attended the Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit in Houston featuring CIO and IT executives from around the world. At the summit the subject of using tape in production came up. While we spend most of the time using…
October 2013 will be remembered for the abrupt shutdown of the Nirvanix Cloud. While this may seem like bad news for the cloud market, it actually may be one of the best things to happen to cloud storage. Cloud storage…
EVault is a fifteen-year-old company with an extensive range of products, from backup software to complete backup solutions for on-site and cloud-based implementations. Several years ago, the company came out with a line of backup appliances that leveraged the company’s…
Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…
The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that…
Outsourcing backup remains one of the most popular ways for businesses to embrace cloud related services. In fact, many managed services providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) have forged their initial entry into the cloud through cloud backup offerings.…
There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…
A lot has been written about the size and scope of the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market. When backup appliances first came to market over a decade ago, they were designed primarily as large disk repositories, some of which…
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