Data Protection: Page

Lessons in business continuity and disaster recovery planning

When crafting a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, you have to anticipate the unexpected. Here is what we can learn about BC/DR from two high-profile disasters.

By Paul Kirvan • Feb. 28, 2018

Data backup appliance offers simplicity and efficiency

Learn how an integrated backup appliance can help sites with scalability issues or no dedicated backup team streamline the design and implementation of their backup architecture.

By Chris Evans • Feb. 26, 2018

Which data protection trends will take off next?

Expect data protection technologies to veer toward an expansion of recovery capabilities, as organizations need to be able to recover in multiple locations -- and fast.

By Brien Posey • Feb. 21, 2018

GDPR personal data requirements mark key business actions

Implementing GDPR is not a choice for organizations holding EU citizens' data. These organizations must know their data, identify individuals involved and review data management.

By Chris Evans • Feb. 19, 2018

Converged backup and recovery strategies offer efficiency, reliability

Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy? Make sure you have locked down the speed, testing and security of both processes to recover data appropriately.

By Paul Kirvan • Feb. 19, 2018

Cohesity DataPlatform now spans file, object storage

Cohesity's DataPlatform tackles unstructured data through SpanFS, which manages file and object storage and expands the vendor's converged secondary storage platform.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 15, 2018

Veritas CloudPoint aims for multi-cloud data protection

CloudPoint 2.0 now includes built-in content indexing from snapshots, application persistent snapshots and auto discovery of new cloud instances in Microsoft and Google clouds.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 15, 2018

Cloud data recovery challenges and how to overcome them

For an organization with a short recovery time objective, what makes a good cloud DR strategy? Availability, along with strong security, is a must-have.

By Stuart Burns • Feb. 15, 2018

Latest Carbonite acquisition adds Mozy backup

Carbonite stays busy with its pending acquisition of Mozy and a forthcoming DRaaS product. The data protection vendor also announced its revenue results.

By Paul Crocetti • Feb. 15, 2018

A ransomware recovery plan for SMBs in five steps

SMBs are especially at risk of cyberattacks. Follow these steps, and even with a limited budget and staff, you could successfully recover from ransomware.

By Nick Cavalancia • Feb. 14, 2018

Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 dives deeper into multiple clouds

Zerto has added to its bidirectional Virtual Replication software with multi-cloud protection for data and applications stored in AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 13, 2018

Quorum OnQ 4.0

Quorum added one-click recovery to the latest version of OnQ, as well as deduplication at the source and destination targets. OnQ appliances scale to 400 TB of raw storage.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 12, 2018

Are you ready to comply with GDPR requirements?

Compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation isn't optional. Noncompliance could be costly and possibly disastrous. Find out what you need to know.

By Marc Staimer • Feb. 12, 2018

Enterprise file sync-and-share market evolves as adoption expands

Most EFSS products unify communications, collaboration and content management tasks well beyond the technology's initial file sync-and-share functionality.

By James Alan Miller • Feb. 12, 2018

Acronis Storage 2

Acronis' data protection and software-defined storage product features CloudRAID and Notary with blockchain, and is used as a back end for Acronis cloud offerings.

By Paul Crocetti • Feb. 12, 2018

Rubrik Datos IO RecoverX 2.0 (formerly Datos IO RecoverX 2.0)

Rubrik performed well on the innovation front with its Datos IO RecoverX 2.0. Judges praised the software's semantic deduplication and eventually consistent data backup.

By Paul Crocetti • Feb. 12, 2018

Cohesity DataPlatform 4

Cohesity's converged data protection product, DataPlatform, integrates appliances with backup, archiving and data analytics while shrinking secondary storage's data footprint.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 12, 2018

Veeam Availability Suite 9.5

Following podium finishes the last two years, Veeam again wins over judges with its Availability Suite. The 9.5 edition added physical support, integrations and Office 365 backup.

By Paul Crocetti • Feb. 12, 2018

Rubrik Cloud Data Management (Alta 4.0)

Rubrik extends the boundaries of secondary storage, updating the latest release of its data management platform to support more hypervisors and Oracle Recovery Manager.

By Sonia Lelii • Feb. 12, 2018

Datos IO gobbled up by Rubrik

Datos IO's ability to protect applications built on NoSQL databases caught the attention of Rubrik, which strives to protect all data stored on premises and in the cloud.

By Dave Raffo • Feb. 6, 2018

What personal data backup practices are best?

Is your personal data secure? Backup best practices for consumers include regularly backing up data and taking advantage of different types of storage media.

By Brien Posey • Feb. 5, 2018

Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct cuts downtime for cloud DR

Arcserve UDP delivers short RPO and RTO for backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. The upgraded platform targets the enterprise and medium-sized businesses.

By Sonia Lelii • Jan. 31, 2018

What are the top disaster recovery trends for 2018?

Expect disaster recovery market trends to include consolidation and simplification. Vendors should also note that quick failover and recovery time remain top needs for customers.

By Stuart Burns • Jan. 29, 2018

GDPR data protection officer role and responsibilities

The data protection officer, required for many organizations to be compliant with the EU's GDPR, will face challenges in the new role but could improve how data is handled.

By Brien Posey • Jan. 18, 2018

Veeam acquisition of N2WS enhances cloud protection

Veeam will integrate N2WS technology into the Availability Platform. The companies' research and development teams will work together following Veeam's acquisition of N2WS.

By Paul Crocetti • Jan. 17, 2018