The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline for implementation has come and gone. Many organizations have achieved a basic level of compliance, so now is the time to dig deeper, tie up loose ends and try to simplify…
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Refining Your GDPR Strategy – Addressing User Data
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Collaboration, Cyber Attack, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, SME
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Posted in Blog
What’s the Right Cloud for Enterprise Backup
Selecting a cloud backup solution also means selecting a cloud provider. For enterprises, cloud provider options range from the megacloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud to small regional providers. Another decision for enterprises is in selecting…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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Webinar: How to Design a Compliant and GDPR Ready Collaboration System
Users need to collaborate on projects, which means sharing file data with other internal users as well as external business partners. More often than not, to accomplish this file sharing, they leverage cloud-based file-sync and share solutions. The problem is…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Collaboration, Cyber Attack, File Sharing, Malware, Ransomware, SME
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Posted in Webinar
Why Do Ransomware Victims Pay?
If ransomware gets through an organization’s defenses, they have two choices. Recover or pay. Given the growth in the number of ransomware attacks, many organizations choose to pay, which only further fuels the industry making the next round of ransomware…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration, Ransomware, Recovery
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Three Steps to Moving Legacy Backups to the Cloud
One of the significant challenges regarding data protection is managing its data set. Secondary storage tiers store five to ten times as much data as production data stores and can overwhelm the data center. IT planners are looking to cloud…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Replication, Retention, Veeam
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The State of Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) are supposed to be an organization’s playbook if they need to recover critical data center operations after a disaster. The issue is that in most organizations, the DRP is outdated if it exists at all. Disaster…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data storage device, Deduplication, Dev/Test, dr, DRP, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication
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Fixing the Broken Archive – Archive360 2018 Update
Data Management (archiving) looks good on the IT whiteboard. It is the process of moving old data from existing primary storage systems to an archive system. The process should free up primary storage capacity, simplify the data protection process and…
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Backup, Cloud, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Webinar: How to Create a Great Disaster Recovery Plan
Many studies indicate that organizations have a shallow confidence level in their ability to recover from a disaster. The disaster recovery plan is often an ad-hoc plan that requires IT to scramble when disaster strikes. If the recovery effort succeeds,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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Posted in Webinar
Why Multi-Vendor Storage Happens and How to Manage It
When core IT receives a new workload, application owners tell IT what storage resources the workload needs as it enters production and what the expected resources are when it matures. Core IT then has to look at its available storage…
Can Data Management be Done Better in the Cloud?
Backup, archive and managing secondary storage capacities are a constant thorn in IT’s side. Backup is often a disaggregated mess, and IT doesn’t have time to implement archiving. Secondary storage capacities, thanks to initiatives like IoT and next-generation applications, threaten…
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