The cloud seems like a logical destination for backup data. It is by definition off-site, and the organization no longer needs to worry about allocating valuable floor space to secondary data storage. The problem is that most cloud backup solutions…
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Using the Cloud to Improve Compliance
The modern era of stricter compliance regulations and more privacy savvy consumers changes the backup and disaster recovery paradigms. It necessitates that enterprises obtain a complete, centralized and searchable data repository – as well as more sophisticated risk monitoring, management…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, SLA
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Does Microsoft Office 365 Need to be Protected?
It is increasingly common for enterprises to offload mission-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange to cloud service providers; in fact, Microsoft’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-delivered Office 365 revenue has surpassed its conventional Office revenue since the fourth quarter of 2017, pointing to…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Endpoint, Infrastructure, Migration, Ransomware, SaaS
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SlideShare: All in the Cloud – Data Protection Up, Costs Down
Managing and protecting critical data across servers and applications in multiple locations around the globe is challenging. And the more decentralized and complex your infrastructure, the more difficult it is to manage your data. The potential bad news? Data loss,…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Druva, Recovery
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Cloud Storage: More Than Your Digital Dumping Ground
Enterprises are dealing with an onslaught of data that is being generated outside of a traditional, centralized data center. Simply put, data is everywhere, being generated in an expanding number of branch and remote offices, by a growing number of…
Keep Your Disaster Recovery Budget in Check with Object Storage
Storage managers face the paradox of needing to store seemingly unlimited pools of data for business analytics and compliance, and at the same time enabling recovery of Tier One applications instantaneously and with zero data loss. Against this backdrop, a…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Encryption, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, RTO, SMB, Unstructured data, Veeam
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The Role of Tape Storage in a Tiered Backup Strategy
The rise of big data, business analytics and stricter compliance regulations necessitate that enterprises retain far more data than ever before. Against this backdrop, disk and cloud-based backup implementations are scaling quickly. In fact, many enterprises are dealing with secondary…
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem with InfiniteIO
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem requires an understanding of how organizations intend to use it. First, most organizations continue to use on-premises storage to support their applications and users. Second, these organization’s data centers have multiple storage systems in…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, infinite io, InfiniteIO, Latency, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage
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Object Storage: Two Critical Capabilities To Look For
Unstructured data continues to grow exponentially in volume, and it is playing a strategic role in fueling business intelligence and analytics. As discussed in a previous Storage Switzerland blog, object storage has emerged as a solution well able to address…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Encryption, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data, Veeam
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Video: Reintroducing Tape to Disaster Recovery
Previously, Storage Switzerland blogged about the merits of employing a tape storage hierarchy to cut backup storage costs. Tape media can furthermore add value as a tier in the broader disaster recovery strategy, as well. As Lead Analyst George Crump…
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