An ideal addition to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is cloud backup. But it is a very competitive market. The MSP is replacing an existing IT service, one they may want to get rid of, but one that they do…
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Webinar: 3 Important Factors for MSPs Adding Cloud Backup to Their Portfolio
Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their…
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…
Unifying Data Protection with Software-Defined Storage
One of the promises of software-defined storage (SDS) is the unification of storage services and the management of those services. The result should be a reduction in the cost to provision and manage storage resources. But some SDS solutions can…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, FalconStor, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined
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MeetTheCEO: Cloud Backup Provider Datto’s Austin McChord
There has been an unprecedented number of companies entering the cloud backup market in recent years but Datto’s founder and CEO Austin McChord has been at it since 2007. In this MeetTheCEO podcast we learn about McChord and his unique…
Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Storage
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Copy Data Management: In-Place vs. Rip and Replace
Copy Data are the copies of production data made for various business functions. It is growing at an alarming rate as IT and business processes beyond data protection demand access to versions of production data. Copy Data Management (CDM) has emerged to manage this data, creating two sub-categories reflective of their approach; “in-place CDM” and “replace CDM”. In this article StorageSwiss explains the differences in these approaches and how to select the one that is best for your data center.
Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, HA, RPS, SMB
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MeetTheCEO: The CEO of Data Protection – Unitrends’ CEO Kevin Weiss
The CEO of Unitrends, Kevin Weiss, sits down with Storage Switzerland founder and lead analyst George Crump and the voice of Storage Switzerland, Charlie Hodges. We talk about life before Unitrends, why Mr. Weiss thinks Unitrends is uniquely positioned to…
What is Software Defined Storage 2.0?
Software defined storage (SDS) has been a common term in the data center for several years now. Its definition, for the most part is very similar to its predecessor, storage virtualization. Both concepts attempted to abstract data services from the…
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