The cloud is an ideal location from which to execute a disaster recovery. It eliminates the need for a secondary DR site and the processing power required by recovered applications because the organization purchases cloud storage and compute at the…
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The Changing Scope of Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery, for most organizations, used to mean making sure that a handful of mission-critical applications were protected and able to be brought back online in the event of a data center failure. The data center of today has changed…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Disaster Recovery with Cloud as Primary Storage
The first blog in this series discussed initially using a Cloud as Primary Storage solution for data protection and then in the second blog in the series, transitioning to using the Cloud as Primary Storage to store production data. In…
Enabling a Multi-Cloud Reality – Scality Zenko Briefing Note
Most organizations today, whether they realize it or not, are already multi-cloud. They may be using one cloud to host cloud-native applications, another cloud to store backups of on-premises data, and using software as a service (SaaS) offerings, which may…
Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scality
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How to Go All-In with the Cloud as Primary Storage
In our on demand webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage“, we discuss how IT can use the cloud as primary storage to improve their data protection process while dramatically reducing their investments in secondary storage. Since…
SlideShare: Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage
The cloud should be a valuable ally in helping organizations eliminate backup infrastructure and increase their disaster recovery (DR) confidence. The reality is that current cloud backup and DR solutions fall short because they don’t fully exploit cloud resources. Most…
Understanding the ROI of Cloud as Primary Storage
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
Decisions the Enterprise Must Make When Considering Cloud Backup
In our first column we discussed what cloud providers needed to provide to make the enterprise more comfortable with using the cloud for backup. In this entry we discuss how to choose the right cloud provider and give an example…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Why Cloud Backup Doesn’t Work for Enterprises and How to Fix it
Protecting the enterprise remains a big challenge facing data centers. Backup touches and interacts with almost every component of the data center, and in the enterprise where there are more of those components; the chance for failure is high. At…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, Replication, SaaS
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Do You Need to Backup Office 365?
Office 365 lives in Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. That service consists of more than one location and certainly more than one server. Microsoft does an excellent job of keeping the service available, and to most users, it feels like it…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Malware, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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