Business Continuity Software Reviews
There is a lot of confusion in the industry between Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) and business continuity (BC). Backup and disaster recovery means …
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Protecting Against Data Breaches Is Serious Business
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 …
What to Look for in a Cloud Disaster Recovery Service
Downtime incidents are serious business. Natural disasters, power failures, employee mistakes, and malicious attacks can pound your bottom line. A serious …
SQL Failover Clusters and You
Failing over nodes with a cluster is a common configuration for high priority application servers. In general, failover clusters group interconnected nodes …
Top 20 Enterprise Online Backup Solutions for Business Cloud Data Protection
UPDATED January, 2017 to reflect the latest providers on the market: Online backup solutions aren’t just for laptops anymore. The best modern enterprise …
Getting VMWare Disaster Recovery Right
In a disaster, IT can (theoretically) immediately restore virtualized applications by bringing VMs back online in a secondary site. I say “theoretically” …
Key Metrics: How Effective is Your Business Continuity Strategy?
You take business continuity seriously. You have working backup in place and you are confident that you can quickly restore your environment if something …
So What is Endpoint Security?
“Endpoint security” is one of those common phrases that takes on different colorations depending on who’s doing the talking. The general definition is …
SQL Server 2016 and Transaction Log Backup
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, …
The Role of Cloud Orchestration in Private Clouds
Cloud orchestration is the process of automating myriad interactions and connections between end-users and the cloud, such as automating VM creation in …
Best Practices for FFIEC Business Continuity
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is a mouthful. It’s also a U.S. government interagency that codifies standards, principles, …
How is Cloud Adoption Changing IT Staffing Trends?
Competition from mega data centers, the cloud and virtualization as well as adoption of automation and management software is leading to downsizing and doing …
Data Storage Outlook for 2016
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 and DRaaS: What’s the Difference?
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 …
Why Cold Storage?
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 …
Hyperconvergence for SMB Virtualization
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 Means to Fill Gaps with SolidFire Acquisition
NetApp acquired SolidFire for the not inconsiderable sum of $870 million cash, NetApp’s largest-ever acquisition. SolidFire is a dynamic web-scale storage …
Erasure Coding: A Big Deal for Data Protection
Unless you are actively managing big data storage, you may not be intimately familiar with erasure coding (EC). Essentially, erasure coding exists to …
Disaster Recovery Horror Stories
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, …
The Changing Backup Target
Businesses have a variety of backup target options, plus numerous options within each target. As always when making a significant purchase, IT must first …
Can You Active Archive to the Cloud?
The cloud is a very attractive option for cost-effectively storing growing backup volumes and static archives. Nothing is perfect of course: limited bandwidth, …
How to Offer Backup as an MSP
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 …
Is There Such a Thing as “Always-On Business”?
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 …
EMC and Dell: Best or Worst Idea of the Century?
The upcoming EMC/Dell merger is huge and highly complex, and no one can be certain what will happen – including EMC and Dell. That hasn’t stopped the …
Protecting Excel: Not as Easy as It Looks
Many workers keep extremely sensitive information on the lowly Microsoft Excel worksheet. If the worksheet resides on a network share, then network security …