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Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities

Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually

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MeetTheCEO: Cloud DR Vendor Infrascale’s CEO Ken Shaw

In this week’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and I sit down Ken Shaw, the CEO of Infrascale, a Cloud DR vendor. Infrascale provides backup, recovery and disaster recovery as services. Join in this podcast as we learn about this CEO from

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Infrascale Launches Cloud Failover Appliance with Complete DRaaS Functionality

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves some important problems that administrators at small and medium-sized organizations face. When done correctly, it can provide a turnkey service that eliminates the need for managing a secondary recovery site and automate the process

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SlideShare: Preparing for Disasters that will Actually Happen

For most IT Professionals the term “disaster” evokes images of a data center being burned to the ground or going underwater, a situation they have spent a lot of years and dollars preparing for. But there are other types of

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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

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The Benefits of a Cloud Integrated Hyper-converged Architecture

Hyper-converged architectures (HCA) consolidate compute, storage and networking onto a single server and then through software, aggregate these servers, creating a shared pool of resources. These resources can then be allocated to virtual machines (VMs) based on their performance and

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Product Analysis: Asigra Converged Data Protection Appliance

Asigra Cloud Backup is a robust, multi-tenant data protection offering built exclusively for Managed Service Providers. For almost three decades, the solution has enabled MSPs to provide enterprise class backup and recovery services to their customers worldwide. But the infrastructure

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Minor Disasters and the IT Professionals they hurt

In a way, the best disaster that can happen to your organization is one that brings down the data center and makes it inaccessible for weeks. These disasters, often naturally created, make headlines everywhere. While recovering from one of these

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Briefing Note: Zerto brings Hypervisor-to-Hypervisor Replication

Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a

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Previewing EMC World 2015

EMC World has evolved into one of the largest storage events in the industry, taking second place only to VMworld. While the event clearly has an EMC bend to it (it is after all EMC World) there are plenty of

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