“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…
A key component of most organization’s cloud strategy is migrating applications to a cloud provider to reduce dependence on on-premises infrastructure. The organization may want to host the application entirely in the cloud, use the cloud as a failover point…
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…
When the subject of data security comes up, it often begins, and unfortunately, ends with encryption. Indeed, encrypting data is critical, but in most cases, if the hacker or malware program compromises a user or administrator account, then more than…
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…
Many studies indicate that organizations have a shallow confidence level in their ability to recover from a disaster. The disaster recovery plan is often an ad-hoc plan that requires IT to scramble when disaster strikes. If the recovery effort succeeds,…
Many data centers unwittingly have a blind spot in their backup strategy, endpoints like laptops and other devices are left exposed. Most organizations have no formal endpoint data protection strategy even though studies indicate that over 60% of data on…
The goal of cyber-secure storage is to eliminate attempts to breach an organization’s storage and access its data. The prior three blogs describe methods IT can take to better protect the organization’s data assets; however, despite all the best efforts,…
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