During our recent webinar, “Three Reasons Cloud Backup is Broken and How to Fix it“, an attendee asked “should I have a multi-cloud backup strategy?” Many organizations use multiple clouds for their production workloads. Moving a workload between clouds to…
Most storage systems provide several layers of protection. At a minimum, there is protection from media failure, typically delivered by some form of parity based protection scheme. In enterprise systems, it is also common to have built-in redundancy in both…
The threat of ransomware has put IT on its toes. The pressure is on to backup everything more frequently and to make sure that recoveries happen faster than a BitCoin transaction. Backup software manufacturers need to up their capabilities too.…
The cloud was supposed to be the answer to IT’s backup dilemma; instead, it in some ways has made the situation worse. In this on demand webinar Storage Switzerland and Microsoft Azure have a roundtable discussion on what’s gone wrong…
Ransomware “developers” know that organizations are likely to count on their backups as a primary point of recovery if they are infected. As a result, these malware programs attempt to encrypt or disrupt backup operations. Other cyber attacks may even…
One of the forgotten elements of migrating an application to the cloud is protecting that application and its data. There sometimes is an assumption that the cloud automatically protects itself and for natural disaster protection, that assumption is correct. Most…
Hybrid IT is the standard by which most organizations operate. Protecting both on-premises and cloud-based data sets is more critical than ever. The problem is that protecting these environments require separate software applications. The process for protecting cloud-native applications is…
Scaling is a capability that almost every vendor claims but few execute well. Most vendors claim to provide scalability via a scale-out storage system, but scale-out by itself is not enough to address all the scaling demands of a Commercial…
Many enterprises have started or are well down the path of exploring the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning. The result of all of these initiatives is the cognitive era where systems almost appear to think…
The first generation of all-flash arrays has come and gone. For many organizations, the time is now to consider the “next” all-flash array. In our on demand webinar, Storage Switzerland and X-IO Storage discuss five things to look for in…
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