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SlideShare: The Showdown for Data Preservation: Iron Mountain vs. The Cloud

Posted on September 15, 2017 by George Crump

Join Storage Switzerland and CloudLanes for our on demand webinar as we compare Iron Mountain to the cloud and provide ways to solve the gaps in public cloud storage’s ability to be a viable data preservation service. Every organization needs…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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StorageShort: Active Archives Need Rapid Recalls

Posted on September 13, 2017 by George Crump

The problem with the term “data archiving” is it implies a method to store data that hasn’t been accessed in a while and likely will never be accessed again. The of goal of archiving is to reduce costs by moving…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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Protecting Against Open S3 Buckets

Posted on August 3, 2017 by George Crump

Almost every week there is another incident of an Amazon S3 storage bucket being left open for anyone to access. These openings allowed data ranging from personal details of wireless customers to 200 million voter records to be exposed for…

Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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Data Preservation vs. Data Archive

Posted on July 13, 2017 by George Crump

Eighty percent of an organization’s data is active and 15% of it really matters. Archiving is the management of the 80%. Data preservation is the management 15%. While organizations often need help identifying the 80% of data that is not…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, Replication, SMB, Tape, Virtual
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White Paper – Can You Use The Cloud for Long Term Data Preservation?

Posted on July 6, 2017 by George Crump

Most organizations have a subset of data they need to preserve. Preservation is different than archiving. Preservation means that the data can’t be changed, must always be readable and the organization needs to know who is accessing it. Often there…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, Scale, SMB, Virtual
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Webinar: The Showdown for Data Preservation: Iron Mountain vs. The Cloud

Posted on June 27, 2017 by George Crump

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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Is It Safe to Preserve Data in The Cloud

Posted on April 27, 2017 by wcurtispreston

We are living in the information age, and modern companies rely on their data more than any other time in history. Many companies are leveraging the cloud for preserving this vast ocean of data, but some companies are concerned about…

Tagged with: AWS, Bit Rot, Cloud, CloudLanes, Data corruption, Encryption, HA, Ransomware, Snapshot
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Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note

Posted on April 27, 2017 by George Crump

The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…