One of the key challenges to any data protection strategy is deciding where to store data and how to get that data off-site. Initially in most environments, all backups were stored on tape. Those tapes were then packaged up and…
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What is Hybrid Cloud Backup?
Tagged with: Cloud, Collaboration, Comprehensive Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, File Sharing, Hybrid, Infrascale, MSP
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Posted in Article
Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility
Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data…
Tagged with: Cloud, CSP, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, MSP, ROI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
EMC World 2014 – “Redefine”
During his keynote presentation at EMC World, Joe Tucci discussed how Google disrupted the main revenue source of the newspaper industry through its “AdWords” service. Similar to this example, Amazon has leveraged the ubiquity of the online e-commerce market space…
Are MSPs The Solution To CryptoLocker and Ransomware?
In late 2013, a new virus/malware appeared called CryptoLocker. What makes this malware unique is that its maker’s intention is to do more than just infect computers to see how much havoc they can wreak, this one actually wants to…
Tagged with: Backup, CAP, Cloud, CryptoLocker, Intronis, Malware, MSP, Protection, Ransomware
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Posted in Article
A Virtualization Backup Alternative – Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.9
When it comes to virtualization specific backup applications, many IT professionals only think of one name, Veeam. But there are several alternatives that those professionals should consider. One of those alternatives, Nakivo, just made its case stronger with the recent…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, CSP, Deduplication, MSP, Multi-Tenant, Nakivo, Replication, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Full Service Cloud Backup is About More Than DR
Being a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a tough business and so is being an IT professional. Off-loading the backup architecture responsibility to a provider makes a lot of sense. Using the solution for more than just disaster recovery makes even more sense. In this article Storage Switzerland discusses how cloud backup can be used for far more than disaster recovery and how both MSPs and IT pros can take advantage of that.
Tagged with: Backup, Backup As A Service. BaaS, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Intronis, MSP
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Fixing The Performance Weakness of MSP BaaS
Recently Storage Switzerland and Intronis held a webinar to discuss the most important aspects of rolling out a backup as a service (BaaS) cloud based backup solution. As an interactive webinar, we polled the audience at the outset of the…
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