Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…
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SlideShare: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Endpoints Break Backup
According to several recent studies, about 30% to 40% of an organization’s data is stored uniquely on endpoints (laptops and devices). This unique data is not stored or backed up anywhere in the data center, and is outside of the…
StorageSwiss Live! Backup is Dead – Modernizing Data Protection and Data Management
Join Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump on our next series of live events; Backup is Dead – How to Modernize Data Protection and Data Management. George is one of the top rated speakers in the IT industry…
Tagged with: AI, Backup, Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Hitachi Vantara, Hybrid, IoT
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Dealing with the Storage Challenges Containers Create – Storidge Briefing Note
Containers have improved an organization’s ability to rapidly develop, test and deliver applications. In many cases however, storage is a boat anchor slowing the whole process down. As enterprises increase their use of container technology and begin using the technology…
Tagged with: Cassandra, Cloud, Container, Flash, Hyper-converged, LUN, MongoDB, MySQL, NVMe, QOS, SAN, Software Defined, Storidge
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Unstructured Data Has Changed – Has Your Protection Strategy?
Unstructured data is easily the largest data set in the enterprise today and what makes up that data set has changed dramatically over the past ten years. What used to be relatively few and small files created by users are…
Managing Data to Manage Ransomware
One of the reasons that data centers are so vulnerable to ransomware attacks is the amount of data that remains accessible on production storage. The reality is that most of this data does not need to be there. Investing in…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Moving the Enterprise Backup to the Cloud – A Step-By-Step Guide
Making sure everything in the data center is properly protected is a common struggle that all data centers face. The cloud, cloud backup, seems like an answer to all those struggles. But, how exactly does IT make the conversion from…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Why Snapshots Break Backup
Snapshots are incredibly popular and a powerful way to protect data. They enable an organization to protect data rapidly without consuming disk capacity until additional changes occur. Most storage systems can also roll back snapshot images for rapid restores and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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SlideShare: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It
IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM
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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note
Today, companies that make up the “M” part of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as small enterprises, have data centers that are 100% or close to 100% virtualized, leveraging VMware as their hypervisor. There are no “teams”…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Ransomware, SMB, Unitrends, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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