If you’re not afraid of ransomware, you either haven’t thought about it or you thought about it enough to be very prepared for it. Ransomware is nothing but an electronic way of stealing money from you or your company, and…
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Webinar: Ransomware – Five Reasons You’re Not As Protected As You Think
Ransomware is the number one threat to an organization’s data. These malware programs infiltrate an organization and encrypt every file they can access. The only way to unencrypt the data is pay a fee to the malware creator. Hence the…
Using the Cloud to Make IT Better: CTERA Cloud Storage Enablement
The public cloud has backed IT into a number of uncomfortable places; specifically, there are a number of environments where company data is being created in places where it is difficult to protect. This is especially true for smaller companies…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, Replication
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A Cloud Vendor Actually in the Clouds
Science fiction is about to be honest to goodness science. The reason? A company called Cloud Constellation will put data centers in space. They call it “SpaceBelt, The Information Ultra-Highway — a cloud vendor above all others.” The idea is…
All-Flash Array Hardware AND Software Matters
HDS Flash Update Briefing Note IT professionals typically purchase all-flash arrays (AFA) to solve storage performance problems in their database, virtual desktop, virtual server and HPC environments. They are the performance sledgehammer that makes I/O concerns a thing of the…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hitachi Data Systems, performance, QOS, Snaphots, SSD, Thin provisioning
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How Tape Protects Data Integrity
In a previous article, “What is Tape? – A History and a Future”, we examined some of the basics of tape technology, past and present. We saw how new developments in the electromagnetic coatings used on tapes has resulted in…
Is IP Storage DR leaving you Exposed?
As the world of applications explode, an increasing amount of critical business information is being passed between data center sites using IP storage. Most IP storage systems have excellent replication software built into them, but the infrastructure that IP storage…
Tagged with: Brocade, dr, Encryption, FC, Fibre Channel, IP Storage, QOS, Replication, SAN, WAN
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ownCloud 8.1 Extends Beyond File Sync and Share
The Need to Share The wide spread proliferation of public file sync and share services like Dropbox, Box and various others, make it very easy to share almost any type of file regardless of its size, with anyone you want.…
Tagged with: Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, ownCloud, performance, Scale, Shadow IT
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Analyst Blog: Cloud Storage is only as Risky as you make it
In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, File Sharing, Hybrid
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Briefing Note: CTERA’s Cloud Data Services Platform Transforms SMB and ROBO IT Service Delivery
New cloud technologies and their associated economics have created both opportunities and challenges as organizations wrestle with how to govern, optimize and automate the delivery of IT services. IT managers are seeking new ways to deliver these services from within…
Tagged with: Briefing, Cloud, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, Flash, FS&S, Gateway, Hybrid, IT-as-a-Service, ITaaS
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