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ChalkTalk Video: How to Make DR Testing So Easy You’ll Actually Do It!

Posted on July 10, 2018 by George Crump

Testing the organization’s ability to recover from a disaster is almost as bad as having to go through an actual disaster. As a result, most organization’s don’t have disaster recovery testing as part of its standard workflow. The lack of…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Why Protect Data in the Cloud? – Cloud Daddy Briefing Note

Posted on July 5, 2018 by George Crump

The motivation to protect cloud-based applications is different from on-premises applications. Cloud providers like Amazon do a good job of providing a basic level of data protection, including resilience from media failure, snapshots, and multi-cloud replication. The most common cause…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Treat, dr, GUI, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
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What is a Recovery Capabilities Assessment?

Posted on June 26, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is a long and arduous process. The process of creating and even updating a disaster recovery plan is the primary reason that most plans, if they exist, are woefully out of date. In the event of…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, DRP, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Making Cloud Backup Work for Enterprises

Posted on June 25, 2018 by George Crump

Cloud backup is an ideal complement to an enterprise’s existing backup strategy. The problem is most cloud backup solutions seek to replace the solution already in place. Enterprises don’t want to throw away years of investment in training and processes…

Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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ChalkTalk Video: Preparing for Disaster

Posted on June 21, 2018 by George Crump

The pace of data center change is also changing disaster recovery. What once was a planned for and a well-documented process is now more of an ad-hoc fire drill. When disaster strikes, IT scrambles to recover everything as fast as…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Cloud Backup: Integrate or Rip and Replace?

Posted on June 20, 2018 by George Crump

An ideal use case for the cloud is for backup. It automatically creates an offsite copy; most cloud providers automatically replicate that backup to another cloud region, and now some providers offer disaster recovery services. One of the upfront challenges…

Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Developing a Practical Cloud Strategy for Traditional Data Centers

Posted on June 14, 2018 by George Crump

Many organizations want to develop a cloud strategy, but most don’t know where to begin. As a result, the organization stumbles into the cloud, often starting with using the cloud as a secondary backup storage area, with the hope that…

Tagged with: Archive, Bursting, Cloud, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Virtualization, Zerto
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Any Cloud Strategy Requires Understanding On-Premises Workloads

Posted on June 13, 2018 by George Crump

Is a Cloud First Strategy Right for IT? The cloud is a resource that most data centers are trying to factor into their future IT planning. Early adopters have found though that not all their workloads work properly, or at…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, Replication, Virtual Instruments
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How to Fix Broken Backup

Posted on May 31, 2018 by George Crump

The single biggest challenge facing backup, ironically has nothing to do with backup. Backup’s biggest challenge is the pace at which the organization evolves and the speed at which it expects IT to keep pace with that evolution. Combine that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, RAID, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Webinar: How to Create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan that Actually Works

Posted on May 30, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for…