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JetStream Data Protection safeguards data on the cloud

JetStream's Data Protection product uses continuous data capture technology to bring data resiliency to the cloud software company's data management platform.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 28, 2018

4 areas where compliance with GDPR and disaster recovery intersect

Your disaster recovery plans may have to change following the need for compliance with GDPR. These four elements involve backups, personal data, security and archiving.

By Nick Cavalancia • Aug. 27, 2018

What standards for business continuity aid in compliance?

Business continuity and disaster recovery compliance is a valuable asset and may require a deeper understanding of modern standards and changes your organization needs to make.

By Paul Kirvan • Aug. 24, 2018

Acronis True Image backup tackles cyber protection

Acronis True Image 2019 takes on security issues, including still-prevalent ransomware attacks. The consumer and SMB software also adds backup cleanup and a recovery 'Survival Kit.'

By Paul Crocetti • Aug. 24, 2018

StorageCraft update adds converged appliance, data protection

StorageCraft’s new OneXafe converged primary, secondary and backup appliance and ShadowXafe data protection software replace the vendor's OneBlox and ShadowProtect products.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 23, 2018

4 tips for backup infrastructure maintenance

Like a car or any other important machine or device, backup architecture should have a maintenance plan. This process will help ensure the health and integrity of your backups.

By Brien Posey • Aug. 21, 2018

Veritas NetBackup upgrade includes facelift

Veritas gives the grande dame of data protection a facelift, making NetBackup more intuitive and visually appealing to capture backup newbies, as well as the grizzled vets.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 21, 2018

New Cohesity backup adds Helios SaaS management

The new Cohesity SaaS app lets users view, manage and make changes to secondary data and applications across multiple clusters through a single dashboard.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 21, 2018

What does the ISO 22330 business continuity standard cover?

With ISO/TS 22330, the International Organization for Standardization covers the issues related to the people involved in BCDR incident response.

By Paul Kirvan • Aug. 15, 2018

Quest launches QoreStor for appliance-free dedupe

Quest strips the data deduplication software out of DR appliances, launching it as the independent QoreStor application, which supports any vendor's backup hardware.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 6, 2018

New Nakivo update supports more platforms

Light on new functions, Nakivo's new update focuses on playing nicely with others, adding software support for VMware vSphere 6.7, Netgear ReadyNAS and Dell EMC Data Domain Boost.

By Johnny Yu • Aug. 6, 2018

Software developer uses Flexential data center for DR

Out of the cabinet and into the cloud, Virtual Resort Manager's disaster recovery journey started at colocation and ended up completely off premises in a cloud.

By Johnny Yu • July 31, 2018

With a data recovery plan, take advantage of all resources

Data security and data recovery have a lot in common, and both can cause a lot of strife if not handled properly. Are you using every disaster recovery resource available to you?

By Brien Posey • July 30, 2018

HYCU moves beyond Nutanix backup with Google Cloud support

HYCU's first non-Nutanix-based product is backup for Google Cloud Platform, ahead of Nutanix's Xi Cloud Services partnership with Google due later this year.

By Dave Raffo • July 30, 2018

Cloudian storage replaces tape at Vox Media

When tape just wasn't cutting it, Vox Media turned to Cloudian object storage to handle the massive influx of rich media its publications were producing.

By Johnny Yu • July 25, 2018

Gen 8 Unitrends appliances span SMB to enterprise

Unitrends adds 12 TB hard disk drives and more models to cover a greater range of customer and workload sizes in its Gen 8 Recovery Series integrated appliances.

By Johnny Yu • July 24, 2018

Druva CloudRanger finds home in Cloud Platform

With the integration of CloudRanger, Druva's Cloud Platform now provides protection and management of data centers, software as a service, end-user devices and cloud workloads.

By Paul Crocetti • July 24, 2018

Five tips for disaster recovery insurance and funding

Having a complete disaster recovery plan is essential. So is having DR insurance and the money available to fund the recovery. These steps will help you succeed with the latter.

By John Edwards • July 23, 2018

StorageCraft backup and object storage packaged for schools

As schools shift from textbooks to rich media, StorageCraft packages object storage with backup and recovery software in hard disk drives or all-flash appliances.

By Johnny Yu • July 18, 2018

Five data recovery planning steps to protect vital assets

Accurately restoring lost data after disaster strikes requires planning, patience and logic. If your goal is a smooth recovery process, here's what you'll need to know beforehand.

By John Edwards • July 18, 2018

Notre Dame uses N2WS Cloud Protection Manager for backup

The University of Notre Dame has moved 80% of its academic and administrative data to the AWS cloud, and relies on N2WS' Cloud Protection Manager to back up and protect it.

By Johnny Yu • July 16, 2018

Imanis Data improves ransomware detection

Imanis improves its machine learning-powered ransomware detection, introduces disaster recovery for Hadoop and unveils its new Recovery Sandbox feature.

By Johnny Yu • July 9, 2018

Use an IT outage communication plan to recover from a host crash

Efficiently recover from a host crash by maintaining transparency for your stakeholders and evaluating the resources available for a full root cause analysis.

By Brian Kirsch • July 6, 2018

Cloud Daddy enters AWS data protection fray

Cloud Daddy's Secure Backup offers five levels of protection. The new company has jumped into a growing and necessary market of AWS data backup, recovery and security.

By Paul Crocetti • July 5, 2018

What backup security measures protect against data breaches?

Backup security varies across different storage media. What works for tape-based backup may not work for disk backups, so plan your data protection strategy accordingly.

By Brien Posey • June 27, 2018