Preparations for your next disaster can’t start next week, next month or right before the disaster. It has to start now. There are a lot of things you must think about and implement before the disaster strikes. You need to…
Blog Archives
The Importance of Application Aware Snapshots
An application aware snapshot is one that is taken with the knowledge of an application that is storing its data on the volume. If you need a primer on snapshots, please see our previous blog on the subject. The taking…
What’s Your Biggest Backup Hardware Challenge?
The euphoria over disk backup appliances seams to be fading. It used to be that IT professionals were so happy to replace or augment tape that they didn’t look very deep into what the disk appliance was actually doing for…
Webinar: Four Reasons Why Your Backup Hardware Will Break by 2020
While backup software vendors continue to innovate, hardware vendors have been resting on their deduplication laurels. In the meantime, the amount of data that organizations store continues to grow at an alarming pace and the backup and recovery expectations of…
Do you need to Backup your Sync/Share Service?
Sync and share services need backup for all the same reasons that you need to backup everything else. A lot of people think this isn’t the case, but the short version of the answer to the question is yes, you…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data corruption, file sync and share, Ransom, Recovery, Tervela
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Don’t Delete Data from Your Archive
In a recent blog my colleague W. Curtis Preston used the movie “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” as an excellent example of why organizations should take great care in how they manage data archives. In that blog he suggests,…
SlideShare: DRaaS vs. DIY DR – Which is Best For Your Organization?
Organizations are under constant pressure to improve their ability to recover from a disaster while lowering the cost of the disaster recovery process. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is catching the attention of many IT professionals as a viable…
Quorum Briefing Note – Instant Recovery Software gets Major Update
Quorum OnQ already appeared to be a solid product. OnQ is a next-gen backup and recovery product built around modern ideas of data protection. It could back up virtual or physical machines and store those backups in native (but deduplicated)…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, performance, Quorum, Recovery, Scalability, SSD, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is DRaaS a Panacea?
There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our…
Backing up MongoDB and Apache Cassandra
Datos IO is the first product designed specifically to meet the cloud-scale backup and recovery needs of modern, scalable, non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra (DataStax), and cloud-native databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft DocumentDB and others. These…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, NoSQL, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 