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Post-pandemic data backup and recovery planning guidelines

Following the coronavirus pandemic, you might have to modify your backup and recovery strategy. Overcome the data protection challenges presented by the changes in daily life.

By Paul Kirvan • Aug. 31, 2020

Cohesity gives DataPlatform an I/O Boost for flash storage

As enterprises demand faster backup and recovery, Cohesity adds software advances to DataPlatform that enable it to work better with all-flash appliances from Cisco and HPE.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 26, 2020

Explore the best free cloud backup services on the market

There are free cloud backup options for businesses, not just consumers. Discover some of the top choices, plus the limitations of free vs. paid versions.

By Brien Posey • Aug. 26, 2020

Terms to aid your pandemic recovery planning process

When updating your organization's pandemic plan, it can help to have these terms handy. These tools, processes and standards are key to a solid recovery plan.

By Erin Sullivan • Aug. 25, 2020

BackupAssist ER offers a cheaper, slower path to DRaaS

BackupAssist ER offers disk-to-disk-to-cloud replication as a low-cost alternative to DRaaS, but lacks the recovery speed of DRaaS. It is suited for small enterprises willing to make that tradeoff.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 25, 2020

Veeam backup software helps California city streamline IT

Rancho Cucamonga, a city in Southern California, moved from tape backup to Veeam software. Amid the pandemic and new protection needs, it's looking at other ways Veeam can help.

By Paul Crocetti • Aug. 25, 2020

ISO and FFIEC business continuity standards compared

Global standards aid the process of creating and updating a business continuity plan. The requirements of two popular standards can ensure that your BC team doesn't miss any steps.

By Paul Kirvan • Aug. 24, 2020

Best practices for intelligent data management use

The intelligent data management platform helps organizations get more out of their data. Explore why this trend has taken off and three best practices for use.

By Brien Posey • Aug. 21, 2020

Acronis True Image 2021 is backup and antivirus in one

Acronis True Image 2021 added malware detection, monitoring and quarantining capabilities. It can now deliver both backup and security in one product, on one UI.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 21, 2020

Asigra Cloud Backup piles on extra layers of cyberdefense

As cybercriminals circumvent immutable backup by stealing admin credentials, Asigra 14.2 counters with Deep MFA, asking for permission whenever changes to backup policies are made.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 18, 2020

Scale Computing woos public sector with hardened backup

Scale Computing HC3 integrated Acronis SCS Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition to provide a strong ransomware defense offering for public sector customers.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 17, 2020

Pure Storage, Cohesity combine on all-flash backup appliance

Pure Storage's new FlashRecover appliance combines its FlashBlade hardware with Cohesity DataProtect backup software in response to customers' needs for faster restores.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 13, 2020

Flexible Metal bends toward Arcserve backup

Flexible Metal's IT manager was trying to do site-to-site replication for backup and DR using Veritas Backup Exec but found it too slow. Arcserve was faster and more reliable.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 10, 2020

Gearset adds Salesforce backup to its toolbox

Gearset Data Backup takes backups more frequently than Salesforce's native tools and uses Gearset's deployment engine, normally used for DevOps, for recoveries.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 10, 2020

Backup and recovery Magic Quadrant shows cloud significance

Representatives from vendor leaders Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam and Commvault give their impressions of Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant for backup and recovery products.

By Paul Crocetti • Aug. 6, 2020

Overcome common cloud backup security issues in remote work

Your cloud backup and storage usage may be on the rise. Make sure you take the necessary security precautions detailed here to keep your data protected.

By Krista Case • Aug. 6, 2020

What are Microsoft Teams backup and recovery best practices?

Backup and recovery of Microsoft Teams is often a complex process. Explore these guidelines to help simplify the important protection of your Teams data.

By Brien Posey • July 31, 2020

MinIO object storage supports Veeam backup

MinIO's partnership with Veeam promises it can make Veeam Backup and Replication run at primary storage speeds while also providing immutability for backup data.

By Johnny Yu • July 30, 2020

Steps to building a pandemic business continuity plan

Your business continuity plan may address some concerns that come along with a pandemic, but COVID-19 has emphasized the importance of having remote work as part of it.

By Nick Cavalancia • July 29, 2020

NetBackup 8.3 adds cloud data protection, DR

NetBackup 8.3 folds in two other Veritas products, expanding its data protection into public clouds and providing resilience against ransomware attacks.

By Johnny Yu • July 29, 2020

Backblaze cloud offers free S3 migration service

Backblaze provides a point-and-click migration service out of Amazon S3. In related news, the Backblaze S3-compatible APIs became generally available.

By Paul Crocetti • July 28, 2020

Igneous Systems’ new CEO talks about cloud and COVID-19

Igneous CEO Dean Darwin said COVID-19 and increased cloud adoption have increased the demand for unstructured data management. He sees a chance for Igneous to fill that demand.

By Johnny Yu • July 27, 2020

14 leading data backup software tools of 2020

The enterprise backup software market consists of traditional vendors and newer technology companies that offer appliances and other cloud-native data protection products.

By Chris Evans • July 23, 2020

Nexsan Unity taps into cloud and Assureon archive

The third generation of Nexsan Unity appliances introduced interoperability with Assureon for extra ransomware defense and the ability to connect and migrate to 18 public clouds.

By Johnny Yu • July 23, 2020

What are 5 backup management best practices?

The task of managing backups can seem overwhelming. These straightforward guidelines should help, as there are procedures and technologies that can make your job easier.

By Paul Kirvan • July 23, 2020