Data Protection: Page

Acronis data protection gives Red Sox an edge in backup

Acronis has stepped up to the plate for the Boston Red Sox. The 2018 World Series champions will use Acronis products for backup, recovery, transfer and remote data accessibility.

By Paul Crocetti • May 13, 2019

Storware offers Microsoft Office 365 backup with Kodo for Cloud

Storware's Kodo for Cloud release brings cloud backup capabilities for Microsoft Office 365. Kodo for Cloud is the vendor's first software dedicated to cloud backup.

By Sabrina Polin • May 9, 2019

Unitrends Cloud Backup protects remote endpoints

Unitrends Cloud Backup protects data on workstations through direct replication of endpoint devices to the cloud. UCB also enables direct restores from the Unitrends Cloud.

By Johnny Yu • May 9, 2019

AvePoint Cloud Backup protects Office 365 for telecom group

AvePoint Cloud Backup protects about 200 GB of Office 365 data for a national telecommunications group. IT likes being able to run the product 'from anywhere.'

By Paul Crocetti • May 9, 2019

SaaS data protection blues cured with cloud-to-cloud backup

Your cloud-based data isn't as safe as you would think. Learn why and find out what you need to know to select the best cloud-based backup service for your SaaS applications.

By Brien Posey • May 8, 2019

Cohesity backup expands with Imanis Data acquisition

Cohesity bought Imanis Data to integrate its NoSQL database protection into Cohesity's products. Cohesity plans to tackle other modern workloads like containers and SaaS apps next.

By Johnny Yu • May 8, 2019

5 biggest data backup mistakes -- and how to avoid them

Don't let a backup blunder hurt your organization or career. Here are five common, yet potentially disastrous data backup mistakes you must avoid at all costs.

By John Edwards • May 7, 2019

Odaseva introduces Vault for long-term Salesforce backup

Odaseva launched Vault, a Salesforce backup product that lets customers store their sensitive data in an encrypted long-term retention layer that's still readily accessible.

By Johnny Yu • May 6, 2019

3-2-1: Get started with a multi-cloud backup plan

Multi-cloud data backup is taking off as organizations seek ways to further protect their workloads. With many threats out there, it's important to have data backed up off-site.

By Brien Posey • May 3, 2019

Arcserve UDP update supports Nutanix AHV, Office 365

The Arcserve UDP update extends the backup software's support to Nutanix AHV and Office 365, with the promise of other hypervisors and SaaS applications to come.

By Johnny Yu • May 1, 2019

Dell EMC PowerProtect aims to go beyond data protection

Dell EMC hopes PowerProtect will modernize its data protection for customers, but what will it mean for its legacy backup products, such as Data Domain, Avamar and NetWorker?

By Dave Raffo • April 30, 2019

What are the benefits of disaster recovery orchestration?

A disaster recovery plan that uses orchestration can simplify the process of failing VMs over to the cloud. Unfortunately, there are some caveats to take into account.

By Brien Posey • April 30, 2019

New factors driving disaster recovery adoption

Threats from cyberattacks and climate change have replaced natural disasters as the main drivers behind companies adopting disaster recovery and make no geographic zone safe.

By Johnny Yu • April 29, 2019

Storware vProtect update brings EC2, Google Cloud support

Storware's latest release, vProtect 3.8, provides support for Amazon EC2 backup and Google Cloud Storage, among other updates.

By Sabrina Polin • April 29, 2019

Digilink launches new Microsoft Office 365 backup software

Digilink Limited has released Easier Backup, a program that provides both on-premises and alternative cloud options for Microsoft Office 365 data and file storage.

By Tanner Harding • April 25, 2019

How to plan for the worst possible disaster recovery scenarios

Your worst-case DR scenario today might be vastly different than it was just a few years ago. What's the worst that could happen to your data center in the event of a disaster?

By Alan Earls • April 24, 2019

Top 4 NAS backup strategies for your data protection

Whether justified or simply because the technology was misunderstood, backing up NAS devices was once considered a challenge. Now, you have several options for proper NAS backup.

By Pierre Dorion • April 23, 2019

What is a good backup test frequency?

You should align your backup testing with the frequency of backups. This way, IT assets will not only be backed up, but also validated as ready for use in an emergency.

By Paul Kirvan • April 22, 2019

Cloud-first strategy brings pharma firm to cloud-first backup

With no physical data center at launch, pharma spinout firm Bioverativ went to the cloud first and learned valuable lessons about storage protection and management.

By Dave Raffo • April 22, 2019

Assurance business continuity software gauges emergency preparedness

Assurance Software's new analytics and dashboard feature allows companies to monitor the health and readiness of their business continuity programs and pinpoint areas of weakness.

By Sabrina Polin • April 22, 2019

A condensed look at the IT resilience market

A lot is going on in the market for resilience. Acquisitions, partnerships and other consolidations have bundled DR planning offerings, creating one-stop shopping experiences.

By Paul Kirvan • April 18, 2019

Druva Office 365 backup adds restore options, snaps

Druva sets out to fill in data protection gaps in Microsoft Office 365, providing an independent backup source for the popular software-as-a-service application.

By Johnny Yu • April 17, 2019

SaaS backup remains confusing to many

SaaS providers aren't backing up your data for you, and that creates confusion among many IT pros who assume their data is automatically protected in the cloud.

By Johnny Yu • April 16, 2019

NetBackup backup as a service now available on IBM Cloud

Veritas sells NetBackup as a service through the IBM Marketplace, following the industry trend of pushing as-a-service-type offerings. But not everyone thinks it's a good idea for enterprises.

By Johnny Yu • April 15, 2019

How to use AI for business continuity and disaster recovery planning

Are you incorporating AI into your BC/DR planning? If not, there are multiple opportunities to include AI in the planning process, both before and after a disaster occurs.

By Paul Kirvan • April 12, 2019