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PayGo cloud migration to AWS includes SIOS for HA, DR

Utility payment company realized "astonishing" savings by migrating from a private data center to AWS but the move required more than just throwing the red switch.

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 3, 2019

Rubrik denies claims of possible sale

Rubrik's CEO shot down a recent article claiming he was looking for buyers. Experts say unless there's a buyer making a massive offer, there's no good reason for Rubrik to sell.

By Johnny Yu • Oct. 3, 2019

Zerto 7.5 focuses on security, backup integration

Through deeper integrations with partners, Zerto 7.5 continues its convergence of DR and backup by enhancing security and shoring up its long-term retention capabilities.

By Johnny Yu • Oct. 1, 2019

What are the benefits of outsourcing risk mitigation and management?

Rather than handling risk management and mitigation within your organization, outsourcing these important processes to a third party comes with substantial benefits.

By Brien Posey • Sept. 30, 2019

Choose the AWS backup strategy that best fits your needs

What's the best way to back up your valuable AWS data? Compare the recently launched AWS Backup product versus data protection offerings from other vendors.

By Brien Posey • Sept. 27, 2019

Forrester Wave shows newcomers edging out legacy vendors

Well-funded startups moved up in the 2019 Forrester Wave, while most legacy vendors dropped. Cyberattack recoverability and single-pane-of-glass management were leading factors.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 27, 2019

How can your IT resilience plan incorporate big data analytics?

Big data analytics can help businesses spot past mistakes, forecast conditions and improve future strategies. So, why should resilience planning be any different?

By Brien Posey • Sept. 27, 2019

Experts detail cloud backup market evolution, where it’s headed

As part of TechTarget's 20th anniversary, we're taking a look at some of the top trends and technologies in IT over those years. Here, experts discuss the newer cloud backup trend.

By Paul Crocetti • Sept. 26, 2019

Rubrik customers get validated NetApp StorageGrid target

Rubrik's Cloud Data Management is now tested and validated to work with NetApp's StorageGrid, giving customers a new target option for backup and archiving across hybrid clouds.

By Carol Sliwa • Sept. 26, 2019

Experts: Disaster recovery plans may overlook major outages

Disaster recovery needs to provide protection from natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires and floods, as well as cyberattacks that concern many IT pros.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 25, 2019

Dell PowerProtect comes to new Data Domain series

Aside from improvements to the Data Domain hardware, Dell also upgraded the PowerProtect software with a new air-gapped vault feature and improved integration with VMware vSphere.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 23, 2019

Quest Software updates NetVault Backup capabilities

Quest Software has added backup and restoration of user mailboxes and OneDrive user and group files. SAP HANA and Nutanix AHV plug-ins have also been added.

By Tanner Harding • Sept. 23, 2019

Cobalt Iron extends data protection SaaS tool’s capabilities

Cyber Shield, an extension of Cobalt Iron's Adaptive Data Protection SaaS, uses automation and analytics to identify and contain cyberattacks.

By Ha Ta • Sept. 13, 2019

Disaster recovery and backup: To converge or not to converge?

While it makes sense to some degree to have overlap between backup and disaster recovery systems, there may be even more sense behind keeping them discrete.

By Alan Earls • Sept. 12, 2019

Cohesity Agile Dev and Test quickly delivers clean test data

Cohesity's new feature lets test/dev teams access fresh, accurate and compliant data directly through Cohesity DataPlatform, without going through backup admins.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 12, 2019

2 trends that complicate SaaS data protection

Malware and multiple cloud platforms have pushed the importance of SaaS backup and recovery to the top of IT managers' to-do lists. We explore challenges and how to pick a vendor.

By Alan Earls • Sept. 11, 2019

Cybersecurity and business continuity integration boosts resilience

Are you doing all you can to make your organization resilient? You might be hampering your company's efforts by keeping business continuity and cybersecurity planning separate.

By Paul Kirvan • Sept. 10, 2019

KCF Technologies taps Rubrik for Cassandra backup

KCF Technologies decided getting Cassandra backup through a vendor like Rubrik would be less work and more reassuring than putting it together from open source tools and scripting.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 6, 2019

Backup testing: A step-by-step tutorial

Testing backups is a key piece of the data protection puzzle. Explore the different approaches and frequencies you can use to make sure your backups work.

By Nick Cavalancia • Sept. 6, 2019

Commvault acquires Hedvig storage for $225M, moves beyond backup

Commvault makes its first acquisition: software-defined storage vendor Hedvig, with plans of converging primary and secondary storage to serve data management needs.

By Johnny Yu • Sept. 5, 2019

Clumio backup seeks to simplify with SaaS

Clumio has come out of stealth to try to make its mark in a crowded backup market. The cloud-based vendor claims to make it easier to install and manage backups.

By Paul Crocetti • Aug. 29, 2019

Free IT disaster recovery plan template and guide

A DR strategy is the cornerstone to ensuring infrastructure and applications continue to operate when a major outage hits. Our free DR template outlines the needed steps.

By Paul Kirvan, Sonia Lelii • Aug. 29, 2019

Addressing the rising legacy-to-cloud migration need

Despite a clear DR need for methods of migrating data from legacy systems into the cloud, the complexities that come along with it can be tough to handle without the right help.

By Stuart Burns • Aug. 29, 2019

Druva backup user highlights importance of data searchability

Regeneron saved money by switching from on-premises Data Domain to cloud-based Druva backup. But the real value came from creating a searchable data lake for all its research data.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 29, 2019

Cohesity backup users share cloud data protection stories

Cohesity backup customers told tales both good and bad while offering advice about their journey to cloud-based data protection during a panel at VMworld 2019.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 28, 2019