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Reintroducing Tape to the Modern Data Center – Myth Busting Tape’s Shortcomings

Posted on September 10, 2019 by George Crump

To many IT professionals, tape media and tape libraries seem like an ancient technology used by the “old” IT guys. The reality is tape as a technology can be of significant value to the organization. Almost every data center is…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Special Presentation of Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
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Commvault Buys Hedvig – Insights and Ramifications

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

The data protection market is at a crossroads. Traditional software vendors like Commvault, EMC-Dell, Veeam and Veritas provide data protection software that resellers or end-users install on servers and storage they acquire separately. The approach tends to be services heavy.…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
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ChalkTalking Through Commvault’s Acquisition of Hedvig

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault made big news with its first acquisition by acquiring scale-out software-defined storage vendor Hedvig. Adding Hedvig to the Commvault portfolio means that customers can continue to buy Hedvig as a storage solution for container environments and secondary storage use…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, Software Defined
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Streaming Recovery vs. In-Place Recovery – Which is Better?

Posted on August 21, 2019 by George Crump

Server recovery from backup typically means copying data from the backup device over the network back to a production storage system or server. In addition to copying the data across the network, the backup software has to extract it from…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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What’s the Hole in Your Ransomware Protection Strategy?

Posted on August 12, 2019 by George Crump

Over on the Aparavi Blog, Vicki Grey cited a recent study by The Herjavec Group, which indicated that ransomware attacks are on the rise. The report also states that ransomware attacks hit businesses every 14 seconds in 2019, and will…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, SaaS, Unstructured data
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How Has Ransomware Changed Data Protection?

Posted on August 6, 2019 by George Crump

The ransomware threat can have a significant monetary impact on the business. Not only are enterprises forced to pay the ransom fee to recover their data, but under various government regulations they also may be charged additional fines per impacted…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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Webinar: Five Reasons Modern Data Centers Need Tape

Posted on July 25, 2019 by George Crump

To some, tape storage may seem like an outdated technology in the era of NAS and object-based storage. But— here’s a surprise – tape today is more relevant than ever. Even the most modern data centers can benefit from its…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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How to Modernize Data Protection and Live to Tell About it

Posted on July 24, 2019 by George Crump

There are several vendors on the market today that want customers to modernize their current data protection strategy by selecting their solution. The problem with most of the modern data protection solutions is they don’t support the current solution in…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft
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SlideShare: Ransomware, Rapid Restoration and Disasters – Recovering from Backup’s Three Biggest Challenges!

Posted on July 19, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to make sure their backup infrastructure can meet the recovery objectives of today’s biggest challenges: ransomware, rapid restoration and disasters. Businesses expect their IT teams to recover faster than ever and they need business performance to be the…