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Are You Ready for Ransomware’s Next Phase?

Posted on July 11, 2018 by George Crump

Ransomware has been a thorn in the side of IT professionals for over five years. What those professionals have seen so far though is just the tip of the iceberg. At the same time that IT is improving its response…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration, Ransomware, Recovery
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Are Snapshots Enough to Protect Unstructured Data?

Posted on July 10, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data is hard to protect. It is growing at alarming rates. It is a crucial target of cyber-threats like ransomware. Even the makeup of the data is problematic. Unstructured data is often made up of millions, and in some…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, GDPR, Retention, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: How to Make DR Testing So Easy You’ll Actually Do It!

Posted on July 10, 2018 by George Crump

Testing the organization’s ability to recover from a disaster is almost as bad as having to go through an actual disaster. As a result, most organization’s don’t have disaster recovery testing as part of its standard workflow. The lack of…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Webinar: Five Things to Look for in Your Next All-Flash Array

Posted on July 9, 2018 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, IOPS, Scale, VDI, Virtualization, X-IO
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SlideShare: Ransomware Checklist – Are You Ready For Ransomware’s Next Wave?

Posted on July 6, 2018 by George Crump

Believe it or not, it has been a year since WannaCry crippled organizations around the world, and since that time ransomware attacks have only accelerated. The ransomware “industry” is now a $5 billion market and is projected to grow to…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration, Ransomware, Recovery
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Why Protect Data in the Cloud? – Cloud Daddy Briefing Note

Posted on July 5, 2018 by George Crump

The motivation to protect cloud-based applications is different from on-premises applications. Cloud providers like Amazon do a good job of providing a basic level of data protection, including resilience from media failure, snapshots, and multi-cloud replication. The most common cause…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Treat, dr, GUI, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
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The Problem with Using Cloud Storage for Long-Term Data Retention – Nexsan Briefing Note

Posted on July 5, 2018 by George Crump

Compared to on-premises archive storage the cloud seems like an ideal place to archive data. An organization can start small, grow incrementally and only pay for the storage they are using. There is a crossover point however where it is…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Nexsan, NFS, Ransomware, Retention, SMB
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Webinar: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture

Posted on July 3, 2018 by George Crump

The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
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