Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…
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Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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How to Prepare for Site-Wide Disasters
It used to be that natural disasters, such as major hurricanes, were arguably the worst thing that could happen to the enterprise from an IT continuity perspective. Practically speaking, nothing else could really result in a site-wide data center failure.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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StorCentric Acquires Retrospect – Comprehensive Primary through Secondary Storage Capabilities
The lines between primary and secondary storage infrastructures are blurring. Today’s typical backup and disaster recovery workloads require faster performance while production workloads demand growing amounts of capacity. IT requires as consolidated a storage infrastructure as possible for simplicity. At…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DAS, Disaster recovery, Drobo, EU, GDPR, NAS, Nexsan, RAID, Ransomware, Retrospect, SAN, SMB, StorCentric
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How to Avoid Cloud Pitfalls to Obtain an Infrastructure-Less Backup Strategy
Meeting requirements for infinite data retention and always-on business continuity is, practically speaking, not possible without using cloud resources in some way. On-premises backup and disaster recovery infrastructures are fraught with unpredictable costs and heavy operational overhead. At the same…
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How to Facilitate Rapid Recovery
It’s no secret that rapid recovery is a non-negotiable business requirement today. Very few applications can stand even moments of downtime, never mind hours. However, getting there requires multiple steps that are not always immediately clear. The first step to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SLA, StorageCraft, VM, VMware
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How Ransomware and GDPR Break Image Based Backups and How to Fix It
Image based backups, after the initial backup is complete, only backup change blocks within the item they are protecting. The technology enables organizations to frequently backup critical servers and applications. It also enables the protection of file servers with millions…
Tagged with: CCPA, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, Encryption, GDPR, ioFABRIC, Ransomware, Retention
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MeetTheCEO: HotLink’s Lynn LeBlanc
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
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MeetTheCEO: Actifio’s Ash Ashutosh
Enterprises are dealing with a constant tide of copy data sprawl. More copies are being created to serve secondary business processes like analytics, test and development, and frequently with limited oversight or governance from IT. Meanwhile, regulations like the European…
Webinar: Ransomware, Rapid Restoration and Disasters – Recovering from Backup’s Three Biggest Challenges!
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…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, StorageCraft, VMware
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What the Enterprise Needs in SaaS Data Protection
Secondary storage is quickly consuming the data center and becoming too complex to manage. The copy data stored on those secondary systems is distributed across multiple enterprise and cloud storage locations. The secondary data set is being used for a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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