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IT storage team skills for hyper-converged secondary storage

Is your IT storage team ready for the arrival of hyper-converged secondary storage? Learn what storage skills pros need now in order to take on this latest development in storage tech.

By Scott Lowe • Dec. 26, 2018

Disaster recovery trends and technologies to watch

Major disaster recovery developments have changed the market yet again, and it's time to get ready for a new year in DR technology, before you end up lagging behind.

By Stuart Burns • Dec. 21, 2018

Top 2018 tips for data backup plans include GDPR, Office 365

Without data backup planning, you won't have a strong recovery. As threats and data volumes continue to grow, it's important to keep up on the latest backup trends.

By Paul Crocetti • Dec. 21, 2018

Top data backup news of 2018: Ransomware, multi-cloud, CEO shifts

There's a lot to back up these days. Data backup vendors in 2018 enhanced products to protect many different types of data and tackle some of the top security issues of the day.

By Paul Crocetti • Dec. 21, 2018

Carbonite backup integrates with Iron Cloud

An expanded strategic partnership will bring Carbonite data protection products to Iron Cloud customers. Both vendors are confident the move will prove mutually beneficial.

By Johnny Yu • Dec. 20, 2018

Disaster recovery planning tools: Predictive analytics for DR

Today, predictive analytics and AI are fully realized disaster recovery tools. In the unpredictable world of DR, predictive analytics is a particularly powerful technology.

By John Edwards • Dec. 19, 2018

Disaster recovery to cloud popular in 2018

As data continued to grow in 2018, more and more businesses turned to a cloud disaster recovery strategy to take some of the burden off their data centers.

By Johnny Yu • Dec. 18, 2018

What are 3 top data protection trends expected in 2019?

Top trends in data protection include more comprehensive backup platforms. With data in many different places, including multiple clouds, products must cover a lot of ground.

By Brien Posey • Dec. 14, 2018

Google Cloud disaster recovery helped save data after Maria

In an area vulnerable to hurricanes, restaurant chain Grupo Colón Gerena turned to Scale Computing's HC3 Cloud Unity and Google Cloud DR to stay ahead of the storms.

By Johnny Yu • Dec. 13, 2018

3 common disaster recovery challenges from 2018

The past year was a big one for disaster recovery teams, for better or for worse. Major challenges included the prevalence of ransomware, GDPR compliance and the cloud.

By Nick Cavalancia • Dec. 11, 2018

How does VMware Admission Control work?

Get to know VMware vSphere's Admission Control tool and use it to reserve the resources necessary for VM failover with cluster resource calculations and slot policy.

By Stephen Bigelow • Dec. 11, 2018

How does vSphere HA application monitoring work?

Use heartbeats, VM monitoring and application monitoring to fully examine the causes of VM unresponsiveness. Adjust sensitivity levels to focus on the level of detail you need.

By Stephen Bigelow • Dec. 10, 2018

Acronis updates Data Cloud with more ransomware protection

Acronis Data Cloud 7.8 adds cloud-centric data protection features to grow the vendor's managed service provider customer base. The vendor also added a physical shipping service.

By Johnny Yu • Dec. 6, 2018

Ensure VM high availability with vSphere DRS and HA

Combine Distributed Resource Scheduler and vSphere High Availability to design balanced failover clusters. Pay attention to affinity rules, which can further support availability.

By Stephen Bigelow • Dec. 6, 2018

How does vSphere high availability affect VM restart order?

If you encounter a VM failure, you can use vSphere HA to automatically detect and restart VMs. Before you restart the VMs, you'll also need to meet resource and host criteria.

By Stephen Bigelow • Dec. 5, 2018

GDPR right to be forgotten and backups: What are potential problems?

Removing personal data from a database is a simple process, but eliminating that information from full backups could undermine the integrity of your data. Proceed with caution.

By Brien Posey • Nov. 30, 2018

Physical vs. virtual backup appliances: Make the best choice

Organizations have a choice in backup appliances: physical or virtual. Explore what both types of appliances require and where a virtual backup appliance has an edge.

By Jerome Wendt • Nov. 29, 2018

DR failover may benefit from API use

Automating failovers for disaster recovery is a complex process, and APIs can help. However, implementing these changes effectively takes time and effort, so plan accordingly.

By Stuart Burns • Nov. 29, 2018

Studies find proliferation of data poses huge IT challenge

The mass propagation of data across multiple storage silos is getting out of control in many organizations. IT administrators cite it as a top concern.

By Johnny Yu • Nov. 29, 2018

FalconStor Software CEO talks rebuilding, rebranding

FalconStor's CEO talks about saving the company by focusing on cloud, rebranding its FreeStor data protection and management platform, and keeping his finger off the panic button.

By Johnny Yu • Nov. 28, 2018

Igneous Systems strengthens public cloud integrations

New public cloud enhancements give Igneous customers granular control of their data, letting them move individual data sets to any storage tier in public clouds.

By Johnny Yu • Nov. 27, 2018

HPE partnership with Cohesity blossoms to OEM deal

The Cohesity data management platform will be delivered through HPE DL380 and Apollo servers, thanks to the strengthened HPE partnership, marking Cohesity's first OEM deal.

By Johnny Yu • Nov. 27, 2018

10 steps for optimal IT disaster recovery plan design

Have you ensured your disaster recovery planning is comprehensive and able to be understood by everyone involved? Our guidelines will help set you on the right path.

By Paul Crocetti, Harvey Betan • Nov. 26, 2018

What’s the difference between a hot site and cold site for DR?

The hot site vs. cold site debate requires users to understand how each DR site works and the resources needed. While one is more budget-friendly, downtime can be a deciding factor.

By Erin Sullivan, Harvey Betan • Nov. 26, 2018

Druva CloudRanger launches automated disaster recovery

Druva automates its disaster recovery for AWS workloads through its recent addition of CloudRanger. Updates to the product also include compliance-specific features.

By Paul Crocetti • Nov. 19, 2018