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MeetTheCEO: HotLink’s Lynn LeBlanc

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Backups cannot be assumed to be safe today, against an emergence of more sophisticated malware. These new variants were designed to be discrete, often sitting idle and being copied across the backup repository to then attack slowly – all with…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, HotLink, Hybrid, Malware, Ransomware
Posted in Webinar

Backup has Fallen – How Cyber Threats are Compromising Your Backup System

Posted on December 19, 2018 by George Crump

Most IT professionals consider the backup process the last line of defense in their efforts to protect the organization from cyberattacks like malware, ransomware, phishing, data extraction, and internal rogue employees. The problem is bad actors are breaching this last…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, HotLink, Malware, Metadata, Ransomware
Posted in Article

Controlling AWS with vCenter – HotLink Briefing Note

Posted on December 16, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Many companies are finding workloads that are much more appropriate for the infinite scalability and cost predictability of the public cloud. They are also finding the public cloud to be an excellent disaster recovery and business continuity resource. The challenges…

Tagged with: AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, HotLink, Hybrid
Posted in Briefing Note

Unifying Cloud Management through vCenter

Posted on September 16, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: HotLink Introduces Hybrid Cloud Management For the traditional data center, VMware remains the dominant virtualization platform but as enterprise roadmaps begin to map in the cloud they are struggling with how to manage the hybrid environments they are…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, DRaaS, HotLink, Hybrid, Shadow IT, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

Can Storage enable Hyper-V to replace VMware?

Posted on July 23, 2014 by George Crump

In our recent webinar “Don’t let storage eat your Hyper-V Savings” we were asked a question from the audience, “Will Hyper-V ever replace VMware as the predominant hypervisor in the data center?” This loaded question is actually very interesting. While…

Tagged with: Gridstore, HotLink, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Violin Memory, WMware
Posted in Blog

How IT Can Remain Relevant In A Cloud World

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

How will cloud computing alter the role of today’s IT professional? Will IT as we know it disappear altogether or will IT pros remain in high demand with increased cloud adoption? To be sure, cloud computing is fundamentally changing how…