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Office 365 Delete Items Folder – Isn’t 24,855 days enough?

A question that came up on our on demand webinar “Next Question: How to protect Office 365” was “Can’t I just use the Deleted Items Folder?” The deleted items folder does help prevent some data loss. Microsoft Office 365 allows

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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

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The First Step in Cloud DR is Cloud Backup

“It’s not about backup, it’s about recovery” is a common statement from the marketing departments of backup software suppliers. A recovery can’t be performed without a quality copy of the data. Cloud storage’s low cost and automatic off-site capabilities as

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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

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The Top Three Cloud Recovery Concerns

The cloud reduces an organization’s disaster recovery (DR) costs while at the same time upgrading its quality. Cloud DR has a mathematical advantage over internal DR. The organization doesn’t have to invest in a DR site nor does it need

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SlideShare: How to Create a Great Disaster Recovery Plan

Many studies indicate that organizations have a shallow confidence level in their ability to recover from a disaster. The disaster recovery plan is often an ad-hoc plan that requires IT to scramble when disaster strikes. If the recovery effort succeeds,

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What Happens When You Push the DRaaS Button?

In case of a disaster, a traditional cloud backup application needs to transfer all data across limited internet bandwidth and back to the data center or the new location. The bandwidth restrictions make cloud recovery a time consuming process that

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Webinar: The Next Question: How to Backup Office 365

The first Office 365 question is, do organizations need to protect their data stored there? The answer is yes, Office 365 data needs protection. Almost every industry expert recommends that organizations take Office 365 protection into their own hands and

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SlideShare: Moving the Enterprise Backup to the Cloud – A Step-By-Step Guide

Making sure everything in the data center is properly protected is a common struggle that all data centers face. The cloud, cloud backup, seems like an answer to all those struggles. But, how exactly does IT make the conversion from

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What’s the Right Cloud for Enterprise Backup

Selecting a cloud backup solution also means selecting a cloud provider. For enterprises, cloud provider options range from the megacloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud to small regional providers. Another decision for enterprises is in selecting

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