Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a game changer for many, cloud backup as a service providers. The service enables organizations to stand up instances of their mission critical applications in the provider’s cloud instead of recovering them across…
Most disaster recovery strategies focus exclusively on the data center but most users use laptops and other endpoints to get their work done. And those endpoints often have unique, business critical data on them. Data center servers and storage as…
A question that came up on our on demand webinar “Next Question: How to protect Office 365” was “Can’t I just use the Deleted Items Folder?” The deleted items folder does help prevent some data loss. Microsoft Office 365 allows…
In our first column we discussed what cloud providers needed to provide to make the enterprise more comfortable with using the cloud for backup. In this entry we discuss how to choose the right cloud provider and give an example…
“It’s not about backup, it’s about recovery” is a common statement from the marketing departments of backup software suppliers. A recovery can’t be performed without a quality copy of the data. Cloud storage’s low cost and automatic off-site capabilities as…
Protecting the enterprise remains a big challenge facing data centers. Backup touches and interacts with almost every component of the data center, and in the enterprise where there are more of those components; the chance for failure is high. At…
Office 365 lives in Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. That service consists of more than one location and certainly more than one server. Microsoft does an excellent job of keeping the service available, and to most users, it feels like it…
By leveraging the cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) eliminates many of the costs associated with a DR site, changing it from a capital cost to an operational cost. Does DRaaS sound too good to be true? Can organizations…
The cloud reduces an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) costs while at the same time upgrading its quality. Cloud DR has a mathematical advantage over internal DR. The organization doesn’t have to invest in a DR site nor does it need…
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) enables organizations to improve the recovery response time and lower disaster plan costs. In our recent on demand webinar we not only discussed the value of DRaaS we also provided a live demo of…
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