Cloud storage has come under increased scrutiny as of late, thanks to several well publicized outages as well as an outright shutdown of one provider. Enterprises are starting to re-think their cloud strategy, even when it comes to data protection. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst examines the state of cloud backup to determine if it is ready to deliver enterprise class protection.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is now the norm at most large businesses and enterprises. Even those environments that don’t have a BYOD policy have seen the use of laptops proliferate. Users can now be productive anywhere, often on the…
The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that…
Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…
Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event…
Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…
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