IT’s goal should be to never pay a ransom as a result of a ransomware attack. To achieve that goal requires prevention, preparation and practice. Unfortunately, practice is the element most overlooked but potentially the most critical. Why Ransomware Testing…
While every IT professional will admit that it is important, disaster recovery testing generally falls to the bottom of the IT to do list, right after root canal. But if testing is not a key component, the process of creating…
How to Move Beyond Backup, to DRaaS, Copy Data Management and Primary Storage The cloud has brought both risk and reward to MSPs. In today’s hybrid cloud world, MSPs must deliver consumption-based, private and public cloud offerings to their clients.…
The modern data center must not only be predictable for normal production operations but also in failed state situations. An “Always Predictable” storage architecture is key to enabling IT to meet the various service levels the organization requires. The Predictable…
Ransomware is capturing more than its fair share of headlines. In this StorageShort, George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, and Gregg Ogden, Solutions Marketer at Commvault, discuss what ransomware is and what makes it different from other disasters that…
A successful ransomware attack is a disaster like none other. Much of the environment is probably still up, especially applications. But an important part of it, user files, may be down. And there is a tempting shortcut: Pay the ransom…
Users expectations of IT’s ability to return mission critical applications to production are higher than ever. These expectations are leading IT to abandon many of their backup and recovery solutions to try new, unproven solutions that may or may not…
The idea of a single platform offering computing, network, and storage services with integrated data protection sounds almost utopian. What could be better than all aspects of computing already built into the system that you buy? Systems integrating functions like…
All applications are not the same but most organization treat them that way. The problem with treating all application equally is it increases the cost of your disaster recovery effort and, in most cases, decreases your ability to meet expectations.…
Recovery from ransomware is different from any other type of recovery. Most are single file restores caused by a user mistakenly deleting a file. At the other end of the spectrum is a complete server or application recovery, where you…
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