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New HYCU SaaS AWS backup provides deeper data protection

R-Cloud, the flagship data protection product for HYCU, now supports more than 50 SaaS applications for backup with new support for AWS services including databases and storage.

By Tim McCarthy • Nov. 16, 2023

network load balancing (NLB)

Network load balancing (NLB) is a feature in multiple versions of the Microsoft Windows Server operating system (OS), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud service providers that distribute network traffic among multiple servers or virtual machines (VMs) within a cluster to avoid overloading any one host and improve performance.

By Rahul Awati , Nick Martin • Nov. 15, 2023

fault tolerance

Fault tolerance is the capability of a system to deliver uninterrupted service despite one or more of its components failing.

By Garry Kranz • Nov. 14, 2023

emergency communications plan (EC plan)

An emergency communications plan (EC plan) is a document that provides guidelines, contact information and procedures for how information should be shared during all phases of an unexpected occurrence that requires immediate action.

By Rahul Awati , Paul Crocetti • Nov. 9, 2023

Top 5 IT disaster scenarios DR teams must test

While most organizations are prepared to face small-scale interruptions, they cannot overlook a larger, more complex crisis just because it seems less likely to occur.

By Stuart Burns • Nov. 8, 2023

call tree

A call tree is a layered hierarchical communication model used to notify specific individuals of an event and coordinate recovery if necessary.

By Rahul Awati , Paul Crocetti • Nov. 8, 2023

How often should you back up your data? Answers vary

Backup strategy and frequency is unique for just about every organization. You must balance backup management abilities with the amount of loss your business can tolerate.

By Stuart Burns • Nov. 6, 2023

CloudCasa now offers self-hosted Kubernetes backup service

A self-hosted version of CloudCasa's Kubernetes backup service provides industries with air-gapped needs recovery tools and automation.

By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 31, 2023

natural disaster recovery

Natural disaster recovery is the process of recovering data and resuming business operations following a natural disaster.

By Erin Sullivan • Oct. 30, 2023

Veeam chronicles backups with journal-like features

Veeam highlights new capabilities for the Veeam Data Platform during the VeeamON Resiliency Summit, including proactive recovery and a Sophos partnership.

By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 24, 2023

data reduction

Data reduction lowers the amount of capacity required to store data.

By Johnny Yu , Brien Posey • Oct. 23, 2023

Druva adds gen AI assistant to cloud backup tools

Generative AI arrives for SaaS backup vendor Druva with new tools to automate reports, detect anomalous activity and provide security guidance.

By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 19, 2023

Pure Storage adds cloud disaster recovery SaaS for VMs

VSphere VMs can recover from AWS EC2 instances with a new disaster recovery service from Pure Storage. The vendor is also debuting new energy efficiency guarantees.

By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 10, 2023

Business continuity maturity model: An at-a-glance guide

Business continuity maturity models are effective tools to improve disaster recovery processes and define an organization's desired level of BC preparedness.

By Paul Kirvan • Oct. 6, 2023

Nutanix adds ransomware alerts, recovery tools to HCI SaaS

Hyperconverged infrastructure specialist Nutanix preps for further hybrid cloud adoption by adding ransomware recovery tools to SaaS products.

By Tim McCarthy • Oct. 4, 2023

Everbridge 360 emphasizes communication, preparedness

Everbridge envisions its new 360 critical event management platform as a multiyear release. Features are heavy on the ability to communicate in a disaster.

By Paul Crocetti • Sept. 28, 2023

How to use a SWOT analysis for IT disaster recovery planning

A disaster recovery IT SWOT analysis can identify the good and the bad aspects of a DR plan, as well as highlight potential risks and opportunities for improvement.

By Stuart Burns • Sept. 26, 2023

MSP shares details of Kaseya VSA ransomware attack, recovery

Progressive Computing was one of 60 victims of the Kaseya VSA ransomware attack in 2021. Now, a co-founder tells the story of discovery and recovery.

By Nicole Laskowski • Sept. 26, 2023

Cloud backup and disaster recovery evolve toward maturity

Christophe Bertrand, of TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses survey results on data protection initiatives in the cloud and challenges for organizations.

By Craig Stedman • Sept. 26, 2023

Data protection and security: A marriage of necessity?

The data protection market is fundamentally changing. An increased focus on cybersecurity and resilience efforts should shift how an organization views backup.

By Jack Poller, Christophe Bertrand • Sept. 25, 2023

Use geo-redundant backups for long-distance data protection

Storing duplicated data across multiple regions is a tried-and-true method of protection, but geo-redundant backup can bring its own set of complications.

By David Weldon • Sept. 25, 2023

Veeam leads funding round for SaaS backup provider Alcion

Analysts say that while both Alcion and Veeam offer Microsoft 365 backup, there is enough difference in the products and enough need in the data protection market.

By Paul Crocetti • Sept. 19, 2023

Cohesity adds AI to its support portal for backups

A new support chatbot provides an AI use case for data backups on which Cohesity hopes to expand. But training AI and ML requires more than backup data, experts say.

By Tim McCarthy • Sept. 7, 2023

Oracle RMAN tutorial: Get started with database backup

In this tutorial, find out how to use Oracle RMAN for different types of database backups and learn which commands admins must know to get the most out of the tool.

By Brien Posey • Sept. 6, 2023

Microsoft 365 Backup sign of SaaS dependence, complexity

Microsoft 365 Backup marks a first for a major SaaS provider as the SaaS market continues to explode and the backup market rethinks how to design its offerings.

By Tim McCarthy • Aug. 31, 2023