In the Lightboard Video below, Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President at Asigra, and I discuss the business of being a managed service provider (MSP). In the video, we discuss how MSPs can build value into their businesses by investing in…
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MSP Agent or Provider – What Do Customers Want?
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Compliance, GDPR, MSP, Recovery, SaaS
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Lightboard Video: MSPs Need to Build Value
Managed Service Providers (MSP) are survivors of the reseller purge seen in the early 2000s, or their founders are trying to be careful to avoid the mistakes made in that era. These organizations prevent the sale of one-time solutions and…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Compliance, GDPR, MSP, Recovery, SaaS
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Unstructured Data Protection Should Integrate Archive
Backup and archive have always been on opposing ends of the data management spectrum. Conventional wisdom suggests that the two should never meet and cries of “backup is not archive” fill the air. The reality is, the “backup is not…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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Unstructured Data’s Compliance and Retention Gap
In most data centers, unstructured data now consumes more storage capacity than all of the organization’s structured data combined. Yet organizations still often treat unstructured data like a second-class citizen when it comes to data protection. Because of its size…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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MeetTheCEO: Druva’s CEO Jaspreet Singh
Recently George Crump and I sat down with Jaspreet Singh CEO of Druva, a data protection software company that provides data center class availability and governance for both the mobile and distributed enterprise. We talk to Jaspreet about Druva’s converged…
Tagged with: Availability, Compliance, Data Protection, Druva, Governance, Migration
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Podcast: Do you know what High-Value Data is?
High-Value Data is different from mission critical data. Mission critical data ensures the operation of the data center hour by hour. High-value data is critical data that organization has created but is not actively using but still needs to retain…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Protection, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan, Recovery, Retention, Scale, Unstructured data
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Securing High-Value Data in Mid-Tier IT
Despite its name, high-value data is often mishandled in many organizations. Often the backup process is counted on to secure and retain this information, but while some of the software has basic archive functionality it was neither intended nor designed…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Protection, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan, Recovery, Retention, Scale, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Triple Play Storage Security for High-Value Data
Optimization, compliance, and security come together in a single stack Today’s data-intensive organizations are struggling to confront the rising costs and risks resulting from global growth in information assets, difficulty in complying with new regulations, and the increasing threat of…
SlideShare – Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements
Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?
In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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