Recently I sat down with Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland for a podcast on File Sync and Share Solutions; “Is File Sync & Share Broken?”. Charlie: You have a new article on storageswiss.com, “What’s Wrong with File Sync…
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CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP
Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data…
Tagged with: Backup, CA, Data Protection, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
How IT Can Remain Relevant In A Cloud World
How will cloud computing alter the role of today’s IT professional? Will IT as we know it disappear altogether or will IT pros remain in high demand with increased cloud adoption? To be sure, cloud computing is fundamentally changing how…
Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, CSP, Efficiency, HotLink, Hybrid, Load DynamiX, SaaS, SLA, Spanning Tree
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Posted in Article
Can Evault Make Storage-as-a-Service Work?
We’ve all heard many times how data is growing, especially unstructured data, and how companies are faced with huge piles of files they may never need but can’t delete – legally or simply because the data owners won’t make those…
Don’t Let File Sync and Share Sink Your Business
Data “leakage” is becoming an increasing problem for businesses today given the widespread use of consumer grade file sync and share services. To maximize their productivity, many users will sync their file data across their laptop, tablet, smartphone and home…
Backup Needs to Become Adaptive
The foundational component of any data protection strategy is the backup process. It is the backup system’s responsibility to capture and secure data as it changes and then make sure that data can be recovered in a timely manner. But…
Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Data Protection, HP, Metadata, Prioritization, SLA
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
What’s Wrong With File Sync And Share Offerings?
The proliferation of end user devices like tablets, smartphones and laptops, has created an enormous demand to access business data from anywhere at anytime. The “consumerization of IT” is particularly evident with the growing adoption of cloud-based file synch and…
Tagged with: Authentication, CEBP, Cloud, Encryption, File Sync, Malware, PanTerra, Share Services, SLA
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Top Backup Takeaways from 2013
As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that…
The Value of Real Time Backup Health Assessment
Change is good…or is it? The sheer volume and velocity of changes taking place in IT environments today is staggering. While change may be good for business needs, if left unchecked, improperly managed changes within the backup environment could deal…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, Hypervisor, Monitoring, Real Time, Recovery, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Poor Performance Is The Same As Downtime
When the subject of application or data availability comes up in IT meetings the focus of the discussion is what to do when an application fails or the storage system that holds that application’s data fails. Occasionally with a savvy…
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