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How to recover from a data backup failure and move forward

Backup failures don't need to cause a long-term crisis for your organization. Make sure you're ready for this unfortunate possibility with these practical best practices.

By John Edwards • July 18, 2019

Carbonite Endpoint 360 protects and backs up Office 365 apps

Carbonite Endpoint 360 brings data protection to Microsoft Office 365 applications and emphasizes the need to protect SaaS applications and cloud-stored data.

By Sabrina Polin • July 16, 2019

Druva cloud migration enhanced by CloudLanes acquisition

Druva plans to add CloudLanes' data ingestion technology to Druva Cloud Platform. Unlike with the 2018 CloudRanger purchase, CloudLanes will not be its own business.

By Johnny Yu • July 16, 2019

HYCU Protégé offers multi-cloud disaster recovery, migration

HYCU is seeking to make the process of multi-cloud data protection and migration more seamless. While many organizations use multiple clouds, they can lead to complexity issues.

By Paul Crocetti • July 15, 2019

How to protect data in the cloud

Take a look at three backup methods -- on premises, cloud to local and cloud to cloud -- and find out the pros, cons and cost of each.

By Brien Posey • July 12, 2019

6 best practices for choosing a cloud backup provider

Learn six criteria for choosing the best cloud backup vendor for your organization. Key among these is knowing your unique needs.

By W. Curtis Preston and Nick Cavalancia • July 12, 2019

As public cloud adoption grows, new drawbacks discovered

Public cloud adoption has grown, but some companies find benefits are offset by high egress charges, hidden and complicated bills and added IT complexity.

By Johnny Yu • July 10, 2019

Switch to a new data backup system without disruption

Your organization may be looking to transition to a new data backup platform. Avoid potential pitfalls and make the change seamlessly with these guidelines.

By John Edwards • July 9, 2019

Cohesity CEO: We’re more than a backup company

Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron says the company is focused on secondary storage and becoming software-only, relying on strategic partnerships for covering hardware and technology gaps.

By Johnny Yu • July 8, 2019

What is a business resilience plan and why do you need one?

Just like business continuity has become indispensable, having an IT resilience plan in place is crucial to keeping your business up and running today.

By Erin Sullivan • July 8, 2019

What are some public cloud backup options for better data protection?

Organizations that need to protect resources in the public cloud have a number of backup possibilities, some with more hazardous negatives than others.

By Brien Posey • July 5, 2019

TierPoint introduces cloud-based disaster recovery as a service

TierPoint's Cloud-to-Cloud Recovery with vCloud Availability disaster recovery-as-a-service offering is now generally available to protect data centers across multi-tenant clouds.

By Sabrina Polin • July 2, 2019

What is the difference between cloud backup and off-site backup?

With confusion as to how to best approach the cloud and other off-site backups, it's easy to choose the wrong approach. What option provides the best data protection?

By Nick Cavalancia • July 2, 2019

Two cloud backup problems that organizations need to consider

Don't let typical cloud backup issues slow down your organization. Stay in front of potential impacts to budget and bandwidth for a solid backup platform.

By Brien Posey • July 1, 2019

How can AI and data protection work together?

There may be value in including artificial intelligence in backup software. Find out which vendors are already using AI to improve backup and data protection capabilities.

By Brien Posey • June 28, 2019

Cloud data management finding its place as volumes soar sky high

Is a cloud data management platform right for your organization? Experts discuss its benefits and drawbacks as more data moves to the cloud for a variety of uses.

By Paul Crocetti • June 27, 2019

Blacktip uses AvePoint for Office 365 backup

Serving users who are mobile and not highly technical, MSP Blacktip turns to SaaS apps such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. But those apps need protection.

By Johnny Yu • June 26, 2019

Why do you need backup for Salesforce and other SaaS apps?

Backup for Salesforce is available from several third-party vendors. Why aren't a lot of organizations doing it? Explore some of the many reasons why you need this backup.

By Nick Cavalancia • June 26, 2019

Storage startup StorCentric takes flier on Retrospect backup

Retrospect backup software has survived a series of owners ranging from EMC to Dantz, and now is part of StorCentric's plan of acquiring storage vendors for midsize enterprises.

By Garry Kranz • June 25, 2019

NetBackup at core of Veritas services platform

The Veritas services platform addresses protection, availability and data intelligence by unifying multiple products around NetBackup and its metadata catalog.

By Johnny Yu • June 24, 2019

Intelligent data management drives smarter use of copy data

Intelligent data management has turned copies of backup data into tools for analytics, test/dev and other use cases. But company culture prevents some organizations from adoption.

By Johnny Yu • June 20, 2019

Sunny skies for Druva cloud plans: $130M in new investment

Druva's cloud backup and disaster recovery are built natively for Amazon Web Services. A big cash infusion from investors has the startup contemplating a possible IPO.

By Garry Kranz • June 20, 2019

Azure backup options: Microsoft vs. third-party products

Backup for Microsoft Azure data is well within your reach. But which product -- or products -- should you use? The choice comes down to some important considerations.

By Brien Posey • June 19, 2019

Actifio multi-cloud support extends DR to AWS, Azure

Actifio Multi-Cloud Mobility and Automation brings multi-cloud disaster recovery to Sky, along with flexible migration capabilities for companies that want to stay agile.

By Johnny Yu • June 18, 2019

Is VMware SRM disaster recovery a good fit for your DR plan?

VMware Site Recovery Manager brings a number of benefits to the disaster recovery process. One of the lesser known roles of SRM is as a planning tool.

By Brien Posey • June 17, 2019