Believe it or not, it has been a year since WannaCry crippled organizations around the world, and since that time ransomware attacks have only accelerated. The ransomware “industry” is now a $5 billion market and is projected to grow to…
Believe it or not, it has been a year since WannaCry crippled organizations around the world, and since that time ransomware attacks have only accelerated. The ransomware “industry” is now a $5 billion market and is projected to grow to…
An ideal use case for the cloud is for backup. It automatically creates an offsite copy; most cloud providers automatically replicate that backup to another cloud region, and now some providers offer disaster recovery services. One of the upfront challenges…
Modern applications like MongoDB, Spark, MySQL, and Cassandra are disrupting traditional storage architectures. To keep storage costs down and performance high these applications use direct attached PCIe flash storage. Many organizations are rapidly integrating NVMe. The problem is that direct-attached…
There are plenty of expectations for production storage systems. Users want it fast, managers want it cost effective, and executives want it secure. Additionally, the system has to protect data from hardware failure, software bugs, and user mistakes. Meeting all…
It used to be that organizations consolidated all data into one location. All a disaster recovery planner had to do, which was still no easy task, was get that data backed up and get a copy sent to an off-site…
Organizations are creating and capturing more data than ever. Creating and capturing data though is just the starting point. Organizations need to leverage that data to drive better outcomes. Most organizations use brute force to manage this data, which is…