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Meet The CEO: ClearSky Data’s Ellen Rubin

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear ClearSky Data’s CEO, Ellen Rubin, share her perspective on how combining the cloud and the edge can help IT professionals to mitigate – or to eradicate entirely – physical storage management duties.…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
Posted in Webinar

Actifio Multi-cloud Mobility and DR Automation

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cutting Vendor Lock-in – as well as costs – from the DRaaS Equation Disaster recovery (DR) is too expensive and too cumbersome to meet the near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) required by today’s business environment.…

Tagged with: Actifio, CDM, Cloud, DataDriven2019, dr, DRaaS, Object Storage, RPO, RTO, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

Key Security Features to Evaluate in Your Cloud Provider

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cloud storage services have evolved significantly in terms of their ability to provide data security, as well as their ability to comply with data privacy regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer…

Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
Posted in Blog

Can the Cloud Cut Data Protection Costs?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data protection, including backup and disaster recovery, has always been expensive and a hassle. In fact, it was so much of a hassle that some organizations did not protect their applications. This was because they considered that the cost and…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
Posted in Blog

Is Enterprise File Sync and Share the Same as Data Protection?

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) services enable files that are stored either in an on-premises storage array or a cloud service, to be shared among multiple users and accessed by remote endpoint devices or desktops. Enterprise-grade EFSS services designed…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
Posted in Blog

You Will be Breached – What’s Next for Recoverability?

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As ransomware variants grow in number and sophistication, it is practically inevitable that enterprises will be breached. Users are becoming more aware, but eventually there will be some users in the enterprise that click on something they shouldn’t. At the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Endpoint, Infrastructure, Migration, Ransomware, SaaS
Posted in Blog

Tired of Backup Storage Capacity Planning? Look to the Cloud

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As recently discussed by Stephen Aldous, Principal Product Manager for Carbonite, and George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, backup purchases are difficult to budget for and are often an afterthought. Additionally, backup infrastructure typically jumps from periods of underutilization, to…

Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, SLA
Posted in Blog

White Paper: Protecting the Distributed Enterprise

Posted on May 29, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, are becoming more global. The problem is that a global organization means distributed data centers. It is not uncommon for an organization to have multiple data centers, remote offices with applications and thousands of…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, RPO, RTO, SLA
Posted in White Paper

How to Avoid Cloud Backup Pitfalls

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data protection becomes more challenging as enterprises become more distributed. Data is distributed across core and edge data center environments, and on and off-premises applications and infrastructure resources. This data must be readily accessible by users regardless of their location…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, RPO, RTO, SLA
Posted in Blog

SlideShare: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Endpoint Data Strategy?

Posted on May 24, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations and their employees become more distributed, a case can be made that endpoints (laptops, tablets and smartphones) are some of the most critical pieces of technology in the organization. The problem is most organizations haven’t revisited their endpoint…