In a world where data is only becoming more critical to the business, many enterprises look over the fact that endpoints are the weak link when it comes to data protection and availability. Data does not only live in the…
In a world where data is only becoming more critical to the business, many enterprises look over the fact that endpoints are the weak link when it comes to data protection and availability. Data does not only live in the…
When determining the true cost of your data protection infrastructure, a key factor is that infrastructure must be purchased upfront and in bulk, and requires significant management overhead. These costs can quickly break the bank in a world where more…
Data protection is essential but expensive. The primary source of data protection expense is the required significant investment in the physical infrastructure. However, the cost of the physical infrastructure is much more than how much the organization spends on storage…
The new state of data protection, whereby enterprises must protect copy data quantities that are growing exponentially on a global basis with instant, up-to-the-minute recovery, places new demands on the secondary storage infrastructure. The key problem lies in the fact…
Consumption-based IT enables the customer to obtain the pay-as-you-go cost effectiveness of cloud services while retaining an on-premises footprint. It also dramatically simplifies IT infrastructure management and planning. Data protection administrators in particular can benefit from this method of acquiring…
Bringing predictability to the data protection process is not a lost cause. The problem is that IT lacks a purchasing model to make data protection predictable and a software/hardware stack that works well with that model. As discussed in the…
Designing architectures to backup primary storage as well as provide rapid recoveries is a challenging task that most IT professionals need to face. It is even more challenging in the face of a rapidly growing data set, increasing demand for…
Cloud-based data protection is appealing and many IT planners are considering it as an option. Can on-premises data protection infrastructures still compete? An on-premises infrastructure still has some technical competitive advantages and with consumption based IT the cloud business model…
It is increasingly common for enterprises to offload mission-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange to cloud service providers; in fact, Microsoft’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-delivered Office 365 revenue has surpassed its conventional Office revenue since the fourth quarter of 2017, pointing to…