Recovery from ransomware is different from any other type of recovery. Most are single file restores caused by a user mistakenly deleting a file. At the other end of the spectrum is a complete server or application recovery, where you…
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StorageShort: How To Classify Your Applications for DR
Storage Switzerland’s W. Curtis Preston suggests in a recent video the key to a successful DR plan is classifying your applications into recovery buckets or priorities. But how exactly do you determine which applications should go into which bucket? In…
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Exploiting Ransomware’s Fatal Flaw
Ransomware has one fatal flaw. Organizations that know how to exploit this flaw can almost eliminate this cyber-attack from their list of concerns. Ironically the flaw is found in their very action it takes to hold organizations hostage – it…
SlideShare: 3 Reasons You Are Losing the Data Management Battle
And How To Start Winning Organizations managing data have a competitive advantage over organizations that don’t. But most organizations don’t have the time or tools available to implement a successful data management strategy. It’s not for a lack of trying.…
Webinar: 15 Minute Ransomware Survival Guide
Ransomware is a new threat, and new threats require new strategies. Within the first 15 minutes this webinar will provide you key strategies for surviving a ransomware attack. During the event Storage Switzerland and Commvault cover the three P’s of…
Archiving is Useless Without Search
Managing data is a must have for large and small organizations. But if they can’t search that data the process is useless. When most IT professionals think of data management, they think of saving money. But that’s just the beginning.…
Why Not Have your Backup System Provide CDM? – Unitrends Briefing Note
If the updates coming out of the various backup software companies are any indication, copy data management (CDM) and instant recovery are mainstream features. In addition, some backup software products are finally starting to recognize the importance of creating and…
Is Mutual Mystification Part of your Disaster Recovery Plan?
It is impossible for all applications to be recovered instantly with no data loss after a disaster. But that is exactly what users expect. We find in some organizations IT avoids having the necessary conversation that brings users and application…
Virtual Instruments – Realizing Full Value of Your EMC Storage Deployments
One request I never hear from IT professionals is give me more tools. They are inundated with tools from every vendor in their environment. Every component in the data center generates data about how it’s operating. The problem is none…
What Should you Expect from Disk Backup in 2017?
You need more than a network share and deduplication to stand out among the disk backup crowd in 2017. Things have come a long way since disk backup targets started appearing 17 years ago. The table stakes may still be…
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