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The Problem with Gold-Only Data Protection Service Levels

Posted on December 13, 2018 by George Crump

A recent Storage Switzerland webinar dealt with the impact of the massive increase in the number of applications that data centers support on the data protection architecture. How does IT apply the right level of protection, set service levels, for…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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Solving The Challenge with Endpoint Data Strategies

Posted on December 12, 2018 by George Crump

Applying data center data management best practices to endpoints is particularly challenging. As discussed in our prior post, there is the physical challenge that most organizations have hundreds if not thousands of endpoints and those endpoints are mobile. Managing and…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, GDPR, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Malware, Ransomware, WAN
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How to Backup Office 365

Posted on December 11, 2018 by George Crump

The case for protecting Office 365 is undeniable. First, Microsoft’s license agreement makes it very clear that the data stored on its service is the user’s and it is the user’s responsibility to protect it. Second, it makes sense to…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, Replication, SaaS
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Endpoints – From Laptop Backup to Total Data Management

Posted on December 10, 2018 by George Crump

Today, even basic and consistent backups of endpoints are a rarity. Given all the threats that an organization faces, and the uniqueness and value of the data found on user devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones, endpoint protection is critical…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, GDPR, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Malware, Ransomware, WAN
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SlideShare: Application Explosion – Rediscovering the Lost Art of Protection Service Levels

Posted on December 7, 2018 by George Crump

The number of applications in organization’s data centers is growing rapidly. No longer does IT need to worry about a few mission and business critical applications, it needs to worry about dozens. While all these applications are important to the…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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What is Consumption Based Data Protection?

Posted on November 28, 2018 by George Crump

The data protection process has three key costs; the software that protects data; the hardware that drives that software and stores protected copies of data and the administration time required to manage the process. The upfront costs are a challenge…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Object Storage Vs. The Public Cloud – Friend or Foe

Posted on November 28, 2018 by George Crump

In our on demand webinar, “2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?” one of the key points of discussion will be about the cloud. Most cloud providers have a tier of storage built from object storage…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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Can Your Service Levels Keep Up With the Application Explosion?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

The method that IT uses to protect applications is changing. Gone are the days of three or four mission critical applications. Today the backup team at most data centers needs to concern itself with protecting dozens if not hundreds of…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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An Endpoint Strategy is More Than a Backup Strategy

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Krista Macomber

Endpoints are a growing concern for enterprises, more employees have them (most have two or three), users store more data on them than ever (30% of that data is unique) and the data on these endpoints are within the scope…