Ransomware continues to be one of IT’s biggest challenges, driving organizations to look for better ways to protect their data and accelerate recovery. One of the most common and effective countermeasures is immutable storage — the ability to lock data…
Most organizations planning their VMware Exit view it as a hypervisor replacement project. That narrow goal hides a larger opportunity: the chance to modernize data protection and recovery. The migration process highlights the failure of legacy disaster recovery strategies to…
K–12 school districts need disaster recovery plans they can afford, test, and trust. This article outlines core DR requirements and why now is the right time to rethink your strategy.
When searching for a VMware alternative, ensuring robust data protection and system resiliency should be a top priority. Key capabilities to look for include integrated high availability, advanced data protection mechanisms, real-time disaster recovery, and strong ransomware defenses. Platforms that offer seamless VM migration, efficient snapshots, and compatibility with third-party backup solutions can help streamline your infrastructure while reducing complexity and costs. This checklist provides an essential guide to finding the right solution to enhance your data center’s resiliency and protect your virtual environment.
Tackles the ransomware menace by addressing the root cause—an infrastructure problem. Discover why you shouldn’t rely solely on backups! Learn why simplifying patching, hardening platform software, and protecting all data are critical to successful ransomware recovery.
Backup software vendors insist on making backup data immutable, so IT professionals are now asking what are immutable backups. Securing backup data is critical since bad actors know the organization will count on their backups to recover encrypted files and…
The cost of the backup infrastructure consumes a large portion of the IT budget. Reducing backup costs requires invincible primary storage that can protect itself. An invincible primary storage system also needs to provide all the services that IT typically…
This year, and for most of this decade, data centers will be dealing with the cloud, containers, and copy data. Using the public cloud is top of mind for every organization, but using the cloud intelligently and developing a strategy…
Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…
Organizations are no longer all centrally located at a single headquarters. They are not even a collection of three or four locations. Instead, the modern organization can have dozens of sites. In specific industries like retail, these organizations can have…
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