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Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 upgrades cloud protection
The Veeam cloud backup platform becomes more comprehensive as backed up data continues to shift to the cloud. Updates allow users to move data around easier.
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Best practices to protect backups from ransomware
Ransomware continues to get smarter and more sinister. Make sure you protect backups from ransomware that delays detonation and gets recovered into production.
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How to best converge secondary storage
Converged secondary storage brings important benefits but also crucial choices. Learn the advantages and what you must do, and what questions to ask, in order to reap them.
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Quantum adds DXi4800 and DXi9000 to appliance lineup
The Quantum backup appliance lineup gets refreshed with the addition of the DXi4800 and DXi9000 series. But the vendor is staying away from integrated appliances at the moment.
7 Hyper-Converged Secondary Storage Questions Answered
In this expert guide, receive answers to 7 fundamental questions, an analysis of Asigra, Cohesity, HPE and Rubrik hyper-converged secondary storage products, key benefits of converged secondary storage and cautions and much more.
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ROI on a data protection hyper-converged platform
Do the benefits of a single operating environment and improved cloud support outweigh the costs associated with switching to hyper-converged data protection?
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Back up your data for natural disaster protection
However remote the chance, any IT department should have a backup and recovery plan that takes natural disasters into account. Barracuda's Greg Arnette discusses best practices.
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Pros, cons of virtual and physical backup appliances
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.
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Tips for compression in your backup storage strategy
Learn important details about the use of hardware and software data compression, as well as redundancy, that could help your organization improve its backup process.
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Quantum adds DXi4800 and DXi9000 to appliance lineup
The Quantum backup appliance lineup gets refreshed with the addition of the DXi4800 and DXi9000 series. But the vendor is staying away from integrated appliances at the moment.
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Content management pushes EFSS adoption
Most EFSS products unify communications, collaboration and content management tasks well beyond the technology's initial file sync-and-share functionality.
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How to best converge secondary storage
Converged secondary storage brings important benefits but also crucial choices. Learn the advantages and what you must do, and what questions to ask, in order to reap them.
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ROI on a data protection hyper-converged platform
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A primer on integrated data protection products
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Is your IT storage team prepared for hyper-convergence?
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Best practices to protect backups from ransomware
Ransomware continues to get smarter and more sinister. Make sure you protect backups from ransomware that delays detonation and gets recovered into production.
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How to secure data in advance of a hurricane
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GDPR and backups cause compliance concerns
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Comparing compression, dedupe and encryption
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Tips for compression in your backup storage strategy
Learn important details about the use of hardware and software data compression, as well as redundancy, that could help your organization improve its backup process.
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Back up your data for natural disaster protection
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Backup planning advice roundup features cloud, testing
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Do I really have to back up everything?
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E-Handbook | September 2018
Converge data protection and management successfully
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E-Handbook | February 2018
Implementing GDPR is within your organization's reach
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E-Handbook | November 2017
Flat backup technology changes rules and cost of backup
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E-Handbook | October 2017
Copy data management market tips, tricks and concerns
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E-Handbook | September 2017
Cloud-based backup services are a safety net in tricky times
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data retention policy
A data retention policy dictates the types of data to be retained and the duration for which that data must be stored in accordance with operational or regulatory requirements.
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data reduction
Data reduction is the process of reducing the amount of capacity required to store data.
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Pros, cons of virtual and physical backup appliances
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.
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Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment
One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested an additional $500 million in the data protection software vendor. That brings the total ...Continue Reading
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Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs
Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million Series E funding round, bringing its total venture funding investment to $553 million. Overall ...Continue Reading
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Quantum adds DXi4800 and DXi9000 to appliance lineup
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2018 backup and DR software products finalists
The 2018 backup and disaster recovery software finalists feature new vendors in the competition along with established players. Many products offer comprehensive data protection.
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2018 Products of the Year backup hardware finalists
Some finalists in the 2018 Products of the Year backup hardware category aim to entice data-rich SMBs, or carve their niche by branching out beyond backup and recovery.