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• Cloud key to top 2019 data backup and disaster recovery products

  Commvault, Cohesity and Actifio make the podium in our Products of the Year competition for backup and DR. Cloud Daddy wins the new Judges' Choice award.  Continue Reading

• 5 steps to creating a strong data archiving policy

  There's a lot to consider in your data archive plan. From compliance to data integrity and retention, following these best practices will improve your data protection.  Continue Reading

• Year's best practices for backup feature ransomware, SaaS

  Backup best practices range from making sure your backups are safe from ransomware to being able to move on in the face of a failure. Take advantage of the advice and products.  Continue Reading

• Vendors detail cloud-based backup past, present, future

  As part of TechTarget's 20th anniversary, we're looking at some of the top trends and technologies over those years. Here, vendors that offer cloud backup discuss this newer trend.  Continue Reading

• SaaS backup services deliver data protection for SaaS apps

  Providers of SaaS apps offer only basic data recovery protection. Learn which SaaS backup services and cloud-to-cloud data protection products fill this void.  Continue Reading

• Leading data protection tools address varied cloud backup needs

  The data protection vendor market consists of traditional vendors and newer technology companies that offer appliances and other cloud-native backup tools.  Continue Reading

• Select enterprise data backup software to fit data protection needs

  While some backup and recovery software applies to the entire enterprise, other products address environment-specific data protection, virtualization and the public cloud.  Continue Reading

• 5 considerations before buying data center backup software

  Backup and recovery software should support various OSes and environments such as VMware, as well as applications running in public cloud IaaS and SaaS platforms.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise backup software provides data protection foundation

  Learn how backup and recovery software has evolved and what features it offers IT enterprises that need to protect cloud and virtual environments and other data sources.  Continue Reading

• Experts detail cloud backup market evolution, where it's headed

  As part of TechTarget's 20th anniversary, we're taking a look at some of the top trends and technologies in IT over those years. Here, experts discuss the newer cloud backup trend.  Continue Reading

• How tape backup systems improve data protection

  Have you analyzed your data protection lately? Tape backup could be a savior if you get hit with a ransomware attack or other malware. Learn more about five tape-related terms.  Continue Reading

• Protect backups from ransomware and other security risks

  Backups can return your enterprises to a known good state. So it's essential to secure them by aligning your backup and security strategies for better protection and recovery.  Continue Reading

• Cloud backup vs. local (traditional) backup: advantages, disadvantages

  Cloud backup vs. traditional backup is an important discussion. While the cloud backup market is soaring, traditional backup players may also have much to offer your organization.  Continue Reading

• Types of backup explained: Full, incremental, differential and mirror

  There are several different types of backup. Here's how to choose the best way to safeguard your data and recover appropriately in the event of an incident.  Continue Reading

• Top 20 cloud backup services for 2019

  Before selecting a service from a cloud backup vendor, identify your organization's specific needs, including which features are important for security and data management.  Continue Reading

• The 7 critical backup strategy best practices to keep data safe

  This comprehensive guide explains backup basics, the issues affecting risk, and the seven critical backup strategies you need to keep data safe.  Continue Reading

• Cloud backup vs. NAS: A comparison on critical factors

  Undecided about which type of backup technology is the best choice for your organization? Here's a look at the pros and cons of today's two most popular approaches.  Continue Reading

• What is the difference between cloud backup and off-site backup?

  With confusion as to how to best approach the cloud and other off-site backups, it's easy to choose the wrong approach. What option provides the best data protection?  Continue Reading

• GDPR and backup: What have we learned in one year?

  A customer's deletion request continues to be a sticking point regarding backup and GDPR compliance. Learn guidance about this issue and others, following GDPR's first birthday.  Continue Reading

• Ransomware protection tips include offline storage, user education

  Ransomware resilience continues to be important because the problem isn't going away. Explore these backup and education tips to help stay out in front of the issue.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• Using snapshot backups for your data backup system

  The quick and simple nature of snapshot backup systems can be a big win for your data protection platform. However, there are elements of snapshots that aren't great for backup.  Continue Reading

• Jon Toigo, data storage analyst and author remembered

  Editors and colleagues pay tribute to the respected data storage analyst, pundit and author, who was a longtime Storage magazine columnist and TechTarget contributor and speaker.  Continue Reading

• Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved 14

  Veteran data protection vendor Asigra beat out new and older competition with its Cloud Backup Evolved product, highlighted by its ability to shield backups from ransomware.  Continue Reading

• Zerto IT Resilience Platform 6.0

  Zerto's rebranded IT Resilience Platform provides many cloud choices for recovery, as well as automation and orchestration. Its innovation impressed our judges.  Continue Reading

• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.2

  IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus focuses on virtual data protection. Judges praised its VMware backup, instant recovery and potential for being part of overall data management strategy.  Continue Reading

• Unitrends Recovery Series Gen 8 backup appliances

  Unitrends has updated its Recovery Series backup appliance to Gen 8, with added features like machine learning-based ransomware protection and automatic recovery testing.  Continue Reading

• Cohesity DataPlatform

  Cohesity's converged data management product gets updated with machine-driven capacity planning and case management alongside a centralized, simplified dashboard.  Continue Reading

• Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance

  Asigra's integrated backup appliance combines its Cloud Backup Evolved V14 antiransomware software with iXsystems' TrueNAS hardware featuring the OpenZFS file system.  Continue Reading

• Converged secondary storage changes (almost) everything

  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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• A NetBackup appliances deep dive for your data center

  Veritas' NetBackup appliance series includes a virtual edition, cloud-focused hardware and enterprise protection. Consider capacity and network backup infrastructure when choosing the best hardware fit.  Continue Reading

• A data protection system plus management creates value, risk

  As new data protection products enable more frequent backups, they are also veering into production elements. Be careful, though, with how you use these management capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Backup snapshots and replication supplement standard backup

  Traditional backup or data snapshot and replication technologies alone don't meet the data protection and DR needs of modern enterprises. Combine them all together and they do.  Continue Reading

• Advantages of secondary storage include efficiency, simplicity

  As your data storage environment increases in size, use the benefits of secondary storage to increase backup efficiencies, and implement quick and easy restores.  Continue Reading

• Data backup systems supplement wares with management features

  With data so important to companies, backup vendors are seeking to provide a better window into its overall lifecycle, including such elements as compliance and analytics.  Continue Reading

• Container backup follows data persistence to these ephemeral apps

  The advent of data persistence in containers necessitates having data backup in containers. Here's how this is being done and which vendors are leading the way.  Continue Reading

• The evolution of backing up to tape and where it stands

  Tape backup continues to have a cost advantage over disk, and there are still some use cases where the medium makes sense and will do so for the foreseeable future.  Continue Reading

• Select a data backup appliance with robust functionality

  Many leading appliance-based data backup systems include functions such as backup, archiving, disaster recovery and replication, and they can be used for test/development and analytics.  Continue Reading

• Exploring the leading appliance-based data backup systems

  Learn how leading integrated backup appliance systems address key considerations, including capacity and performance, and what operational benefits they offer.  Continue Reading

• What data backup technologies may look like in 2028

  The data backup and recovery technologies of the future will have not only a cloud focus, but a multi-cloud focus. Compliance will also be a key element.  Continue Reading

• Criteria for vetting appliance-based data backup systems

  Knowing the right questions to ask when vetting data backup appliance vendors can help ensure you select the product that will provide the most comprehensive data protection.  Continue Reading

• How ransomware variants are neutralizing data backups

  The latest iterations of ransomware aim to undercut backups as an effective method for recovering from attacks. Learn how to overcome this vulnerability.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• Data backup tools: Users want to handle more data more easily

  Businesses want data backup that handles more data than ever, but with software and hardware that's easier to implement and manage than what they're already using.  Continue Reading

• Our top five data protection tips of 2017

  We've compiled the top five pieces of data protection and backup advice given in 2017, from copy data management products to lingering cloud backup doubts.  Continue Reading

• The flat backup, or backup-less backup, data protection option

  With snapshot-based backup techniques and copy data management, you can effectively recover lost or damaged data without relying on traditional backup software.  Continue Reading

• Snapshot-based backup snaps back against cyberattacks

  A flat backup approach could help your organization recover easier if it's hit by ransomware. There are snapshot-based options available from system and backup software providers.  Continue Reading

• Secure file sync and share enhanced to maintain data safety

  Cloud, on-premises and hybrid enterprise file sync-and-share services, the EFSS market, deliver corporate security, compliance and peace of mind not present in consumer services.  Continue Reading

• Vendors of copy management systems tackle potential pitfalls

  If you're looking to reap the benefits of a copy data management product, it's important to keep in mind the limits and possible risks involved with the technology.  Continue Reading

• Cloud backup systems are a good bet in ransomware fight

  Because it's important to protect your backups against ransomware, a cloud backup system is a strong option. Critically, cloud backups are off the network.  Continue Reading

• Disk still rules enterprise backup hardware roost despite competition

  Organizations continue to demand scalable, easy-to-implement disk-based data backup storage devices over cloud or tape when increasing backup storage capacity.  Continue Reading

• Your top five ransomware backup and recovery questions answered

  Are you worried about ransomware? If not, you might want to reconsider. Proper preparation and a backup strategy are vital to staying afloat once a ransomware attack occurs.  Continue Reading

• Converged data protection in the cloud provides benefits, challenges

  The top converged data protection vendors tackle the public cloud in different ways. There are also some general obstacles to consider when using the technology.  Continue Reading

• A look at the data backup capabilities of IBM Spectrum Protect

  Spectrum Protect data backup software helps enterprises prevent disaster through various backup methods, and aids in recovery in the case of data loss.  Continue Reading

• The HPE backup tool, Data Protector, helps execute companies' DR plans

  Designed for complex infrastructures, HPE Data Protector enables enterprises to execute long-term data protection across virtual and physical environments while remaining compliant.  Continue Reading

• Quest Rapid Recovery incremental backup software saves data in a flash

  Quest Software's block-level, incremental backup software provides in-place recovery, integration with Microsoft VSS and tight recovery point and recovery time objectives.  Continue Reading

• Actifio Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) 7.0

  A pioneer in copy data management, Actifio beat out competitors in the 2016 Products of the Year competition to take silver for backup hardware with its Virtual Data Pipeline.  Continue Reading

• Unitrends Recovery Series

  Unitrends Recovery Series backup appliances ranked high in ease of use and manageability to take Products of the Year gold.  Continue Reading

• Barracuda Backup 6.3

  Barracuda Backup 6.3 introduces multi-streaming and cloud-to-cloud backups to take bronze for 2016 Products of the Year in the backup hardware category.  Continue Reading

• Zerto Virtual Replication 4.5

  Aimed at enterprises with large VMs, Zerto Virtual Replication version 4.5, aided by a new journaling feature, stresses RPOs of seconds and RTOs of minutes.  Continue Reading

• Veeam Software's Veeam Availability Suite v9

  Veeam Availability Suite v9 scored highly on functionality, offering Veeam Cloud Connect Replication and Veeam Explorer for Oracle databases among its more than 250 features.  Continue Reading

• Datos IO RecoverX

  The cornerstone of Datos IO RecoverX backup and recovery product is the vendor's patented Consistent Orchestrated Distributed Recovery architecture.  Continue Reading

• Demand grows for disk, cloud storage backup market

  The cloud and disk-based storage appliances are meeting backup market needs in this age of massive and faster data creation and risk.  Continue Reading

• Veritas' enterprise backup software balances old and new school needs

  Veritas NetBackup software comes with many backup capabilities for the enterprise, like backup to tape, VM recovery and cloud integration.  Continue Reading

• Veeam backup and recovery software now backs up cloud and enterprises

  With features that support the complex demands of enterprises and cloud-based data recovery, Veeam backup software continues to outpace other vendors' offerings.  Continue Reading

• Commvault backup software builds in cloud capability, virtualization

  By embracing new technology, like the cloud and virtualization, Commvault Systems provides businesses with a complete backup application featuring a litany of support and integrations.  Continue Reading

• Everything you need to know about snapshotting

  Though backups are a core element of a basic data protection strategy, Jason Buffington explains why storage snapshots and replication are must-haves as well.  Continue Reading

• Backup technologies keep getting better and better

  Inadequate backup windows and the rise of server virtualization are driving data backup technology innovations, such as CDP instant recovery, flat backups and backup appliances.  Continue Reading

• Veritas, Veeam top choices of data backup app users

  Data backup app users are tough critics, but Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup & Replication won over users in this year's Quality Awards.  Continue Reading

• Copy management systems demystified

  The race for dominance in the copy data management market has stiffened as vendors offer competitive functionality and plan to expand their offerings.  Continue Reading

• Tape backup systems experience resurgence due to LTFS, big data

  Tape-based backup received a bad rap, but the technology is coming back strong. Explore three reasons why tape could be a good data backup option for your organization.  Continue Reading

• CDP technology offers organizations a steady data protection method

  If your organization still relies on a nightly backup to tape, continuous data protection could be a better option; however, backup capacity can become an issue.  Continue Reading

• Buying data protection products starts at capacity, compatibility need

  Buyers look for easy implementations and good deals as coping with growing data forces changes in backup operations.  Continue Reading

• Tape archiving tips for a better storage strategy

  Studies show that tape archives are a comparatively cheaper method of long-term data retention. Explore how to use active archive and other storage technologies with a tape system.  Continue Reading

• Do I still need an enterprise-level backup software application?

  With ever more powerful primary storage, why is backup still relevant? In this feature, storage expert George Crump explores the business case for backup applications.  Continue Reading

• Tape archive remains the recording medium of choice

  Tape archiving offers low-cost, long-term data protection in a variety of industries, keeping it atop the list of data center backup technologies.  Continue Reading

• Backup technologies help appliances do more than backup

  Backup targets have grown more efficient thanks to deduplication, scalability, copy data management and other advancements in backup technology.  Continue Reading

• Cloud backup options protect public cloud storage data

  Public cloud vendors are developing cutting-edge products to make cloud-based backups more effective in backing up public cloud storage data.  Continue Reading

• Data backup hardware buyers get good deals from vendors

  Buying data backup hardware has never been easy, but companies are leveraging vendor relationships to get discounts and other benefits.  Continue Reading

• Asigra Cloud Backup Version 13

  Asigra Cloud Backup Version 13 provides an AWS Elastic Block Store Snapshot Manager and the ability to support Docker container backup through an Asigra partner.  Continue Reading

• Veeam Availability Suite v8

  Veeam Availability Suite v8 offers several key backup software components in one package, including Veeam Cloud Connect, Snapshot Hunter and WAN acceleration for VM replication.  Continue Reading

• Druva inSync 5.5

  Druva inSync 5.5 endpoint backup software stands out with its proactive compliance, cloud app integration, full text search and cloud privacy framework.  Continue Reading

• NEC HYDRAstor v4.4

  The NEC HYDRAstor version 4.4 is viewed as the most scalable target dedupe appliance and its Universal Deduped Transfer offers source-side dedupe to reduce bandwidth usage.  Continue Reading

• ExaGrid Systems EX32000E version 4.9

  The ExaGrid EX32000E version 4.9 backup hardware appliance and its deduplication software offer capacity for 25 appliances and support 15 data centers for cross-site DR.  Continue Reading

• Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

  The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance is integrated with RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager and is designed to drastically reduce data-loss exposure.  Continue Reading

• How to choose the right snapshot method

  Snapshots and replication have become data protection tools of choice, but finding the right snapshot method for your data center can be challenging.  Continue Reading

• In search of the ideal disk backup system

  Integrated backup appliances and disk backup systems are playing key roles in the evolution of data protection to drive business efficiency.  Continue Reading

• Backup tech buyers want problems solved, data protected

  Making a backup purchase? You probably want to solve specific problems and build out your infrastructure, but cost, capacity and scaling matter.  Continue Reading

• Remote data backup options offer a centralized approach

  Remote data backup options include integrated backup appliances, the cloud and a hybrid approach. Discover the pros and cons of each strategy.  Continue Reading

• The bleeding edge of backup applications

  Today's backup software does more than just copy data. These platforms are evolving to support faster restores, disaster recovery, and even archiving.  Continue Reading