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Use Microsoft Azure Key Vault to protect your data backups
The Azure Key Vault can serve as data backup protection through its encryption key storage management. Explore how to set up the vault and administer it in your organization. Continue Reading
Can you recover from ransomware with frequent data backups?
Ransomware is becoming a serious security threat. A proper backup strategy lets administrators recover data from ransomware attacks without major disruption to the organization. Continue Reading
Carbonite
Cloud backup vendor Carbonite Inc. offers a variety of personal and business backup and data protection plans. Its acquisition of Seagate Technology's EVault cloud backup and DRaaS offerings has expanded the vendor's reach to small enterprises. Continue Reading
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CrashPlan
Code42 Software's CrashPlan data protection software comes in home, small business and enterprise versions. CrashPlan runs in the background of a device and provides an organization with constant backup of all new and changed files. Continue Reading
Backblaze
Backblaze backs up data that cannot be retrieved if a computer breaks or is lost. The vendor's Storage Pods hardware platform allows the company to offer backup at a low price. A B2 Cloud Storage service lets customers build cloud applications. Continue Reading
backup as a service (BaaS)
Backup as a service uses external providers to deliver cloud-based backup services to an enterprise. It can help organizations avoid costly upgrades or provide companies that lack the resources to perform on-premises backups.Continue Reading
What role does data redundancy play in copy data management?
Copy data management and backup can work together, but organizations need to be careful with redundant data. Having only one copy of data could be a problem.Continue Reading
Cloud-based backups take flight
Cloud-to-cloud backup -- copying data stored on one cloud backup service to another cloud -- has gained popularity with small offices and home users because of its convenience. It takes the management and maintenance of hardware out of the equation ...Continue Reading
data deduplication ratio
To calculate the deduplication ratio, divide the capacity of backed up data before dupliates are removed by the actual capacity used once the backup is complete.Continue Reading
Arcserve UDP (Arcserve Unified Data Protection)
Arcserve Unified Data Protection is a data backup and recovery software product. The software combines features such as high availability, global source-side deduplication and disaster recovery testing in one product interface.Continue Reading
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flat backup
Flat backup uses snapshots to protect data without traditional backup software. Storage snapshots are replicated to another location, where they are a backup to the originals. Flat backup can be cheaper than a traditional backup, but not all storage...Continue Reading
Will instant VM recovery ever be truly instant?
The need for human interaction currently prevents the virtual machine recovery process from being more instantaneous. But that could change in the future.Continue Reading
Can your deduplication process be improved with semantic dedupe?
While semantic deduplication is a legacy technology, the global deduplication process can perform a similar job. Expert Brien Posey compares the two offerings.Continue Reading
LTO-1 (Linear Tape-Open 1)
LTO-1 is the first tape format from the Linear Tape-Open Consortium. It has 100 GB native capacity (200 GB compressed) and a native transfer speed of 20 MBps (40 MBps compressed).Continue Reading
LTO-10 (Linear Tape-Open 10)
LTO-10 is an unreleased tape format from the Linear Tape-Open Consortium. It will offer read-and-write backwards compatibility with tapes from the previous generation.Continue Reading