When Cloud Backup is the Best Defense
Petya, a new global ransomware, has infected hundreds of companies in Europe. The number is growing. And in May 2017, WannaCry targeted Windows computers by …
Petya, a new global ransomware, has infected hundreds of companies in Europe. The number is growing. And in May 2017, WannaCry targeted Windows computers by …
UPDATED June, 2017 to reflect the latest providers on the market: The best modern enterprise cloud backup services are able to deliver complete backup & DR …
Compliance risk management is the process of managing corporate compliance to meet regulations within a workable timeframe and budget. Not every regulated …
There is a lot of confusion in the industry between Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) and business continuity (BC). Backup and disaster recovery means …
In late 2016, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout reported that business data breaches were up 40% from the year before–and that …
Downtime incidents are serious business. Natural disasters, power failures, employee mistakes, and malicious attacks can pound your bottom line. A serious …
Failing over nodes with a cluster is a common configuration for high priority application servers. In general, failover clusters group interconnected nodes …
In a disaster, IT can (theoretically) immediately restore virtualized applications by bringing VMs back online in a secondary site. I say “theoretically” …
You take business continuity seriously. You have working backup in place and you are confident that you can quickly restore your environment if something …
“Endpoint security” is one of those common phrases that takes on different colorations depending on who’s doing the talking. The general definition is …
Backing up SQL Server transaction logs may not end up on the cover of Newsweek. But protecting transaction logs has a big impact on database recoverability, …
Cloud orchestration is the process of automating myriad interactions and connections between end-users and the cloud, such as automating VM creation in …
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is a mouthful. It’s also a U.S. government interagency that codifies standards, principles, …
Competition from mega data centers, the cloud and virtualization as well as adoption of automation and management software is leading to downsizing and doing …
The world’s stored data is scaling sharply upward, with business data alone growing between 60% and 100% a year in the average data center. Data storage is …
Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) means that you have turned over all or portions of your backup and recovery process to a cloud-based backup provider. It’s …
In one sense, cold storage has been around for decades. It’s called “tape.” Because what is cheaper than keeping decades’ worth of storage in a …
Virtualization is a widely accepted technology and many data centers are at or nearing 100% virtualization. However, many more mid-sized and SMB companies …
NetApp acquired SolidFire for the not inconsiderable sum of $870 million cash, NetApp’s largest-ever acquisition. SolidFire is a dynamic web-scale storage …
Unless you are actively managing big data storage, you may not be intimately familiar with erasure coding (EC). Essentially, erasure coding exists to …
When we hear about a data loss and no existing backup, most of us assume a careless consumer. Surely that couldn’t happen to a business, could it? It could, …
Businesses have a variety of backup target options, plus numerous options within each target. As always when making a significant purchase, IT must first …
The cloud is a very attractive option for cost-effectively storing growing backup volumes and static archives. Nothing is perfect of course: limited bandwidth, …
Many MSPs offer cloud backup services. A few of them make moderate to high profits by cost-effectively offering high-value services and re-signing clients year …
The term “always-on business” may be a market-speak term but it has a background in truth. Few businesses these days can afford to slow down or stop …