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Backup as a Service Without Compromise

Posted on October 15, 2019 by George Crump

Protecting an organization’s digital assets is more challenging than ever. Users expect IT to backup all data, retain those backups indefinitely, and be able to recover data quickly with no loss or interruption. At the same time, IT has more…

Tagged with: Baas, Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
Posted in Briefing Note

How Does Your 2020 DR Plan Need to Change?

Posted on October 11, 2019 by George Crump

With each passing year, disaster recovery changes. Most of the time, those changes relate to faster and faster recoveries, as well as protection from net threats like ransomware. In 2020 the pressure to recover even faster remains critical, but there…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Commvault, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Ransomware, RTO
Posted in Blog

Disaster Recovery Workshop: Dealing with New Requirements, Expectations, and Threats

Posted on October 8, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery (DR) is changing, and DR plans need to change with it. Legislative bodies want companies to not only prove their ability to recover from a disaster, but they have specific guidelines as to how long that effort can…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Cyber Security, Disaster recovery, dr, ML, Ransomware, Software Defined, VM
Posted in Blog

SlideShare: Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 13, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Webinar

Special Presentation of Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Webinar

Commvault Buys Hedvig – Insights and Ramifications

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

The data protection market is at a crossroads. Traditional software vendors like Commvault, EMC-Dell, Veeam and Veritas provide data protection software that resellers or end-users install on servers and storage they acquire separately. The approach tends to be services heavy.…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Blog

ChalkTalking Through Commvault’s Acquisition of Hedvig

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault made big news with its first acquisition by acquiring scale-out software-defined storage vendor Hedvig. Adding Hedvig to the Commvault portfolio means that customers can continue to buy Hedvig as a storage solution for container environments and secondary storage use…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Video

SlideShare: How to Create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan that Actually Works

Posted on August 17, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
Posted in Slideshare

The State of Disaster Recovery Planning

Posted on July 18, 2018 by George Crump

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
Posted in Blog

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…