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• How to handle data management in the cloud

  Managing data in the cloud can result in cost and management complexities. But you can also use the technology to get a deeper understanding of your data. Continue Reading

• 3 cloud-based data management challenges

  Your organization has data in the cloud, but there are still concerns as to how you and your data protection vendor manage that data to maintain performance and costs. Continue Reading

• Achieve multi-cloud data protection with archiving, backup and DR

  How can multi-cloud users effectively use DR, backup and archiving together? Although multiple clouds complicate infrastructure, they also offer benefits for 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

• What are best practices for cloud repatriation with backups?

  In order to migrate backup data from the cloud back to an on-premises environment, you should follow these steps to ensure your data will be safe and smoothly moved. Continue Reading

• 10 steps to creating an effective data backup strategy

  A common denominator in well-functioning backup infrastructures is effective process and control. This checklist highlights 10 areas to help build a better backup practice.Continue Reading

• What are some best practices for planning database backups?

  Adhering to service-level agreements, keeping up with performance demands and planning for future workloads are just a few of the goals you should keep in mind when planning database backups.Continue Reading

• In your data archive strategy, how long is long enough?

  Hoarding large amounts of data increases costs and management time. Here's how to painlessly separate the wheat from the chaff for your data archive strategy.Continue Reading

• Talking magnetic tape for storage with Quantum

  Mark Pastor of Quantum speaks in this Q&A about tape's advancements and uses, as well as challenges in the market, including 'old perceptions' of tape.Continue Reading

• How to use multi-cloud data management and protection

  Data protection vendors are continuing to add more data management features in their products. How does this convergence affect multi-cloud environments?Continue Reading

• Backup deduplication: A complete guide

  Backup deduplication has moved from cutting-edge technology to mainstream staple. Learn about the different types, benefits and challenges of deduplication.Continue Reading

• How to determine if your data backup strategy has the right resources

  The volume of different data backup resources available can be overwhelming. Learn how to quantify what is appropriate for your organization's backup strategy.Continue Reading

• Develop copy management systems for streamlined production

  A copy management system can reduce sprawl and be an essential piece of your data protection strategy. But make sure you understand the key phrases and technological components.Continue Reading

• Choose the AWS backup strategy that best fits your needs

  What's the best way to back up your valuable AWS data? Compare the recently launched AWS Backup product versus data protection offerings from other vendors.Continue Reading

• What are best practices for archiving emails?

  Archiving email is crucial to the business continuity and disaster recovery process. For example, consider how cybersecurity and cloud storage can integrate with the archiving.Continue Reading

• SaaS data backup challenges and best practices

  The protection offered by a SaaS provider for your important customer data can be minimal, so it's crucial for organizations to back up SaaS data on their own.Continue Reading

• 2 trends that complicate SaaS data protection

  Malware and multiple cloud platforms have pushed the importance of SaaS backup and recovery to the top of IT managers' to-do lists. We explore challenges and how to pick a vendor.Continue Reading

• Backup testing: A step-by-step tutorial

  Testing backups is a key piece of the data protection puzzle. Explore the different approaches and frequencies you can use to make sure your backups work.Continue Reading

• How a backup administrator can manage large volumes in 3 steps

  Backup administrators have a tall task: managing a vast amount of data. Even if the volume is seemingly growing out of control, it's possible to keep a handle on it.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

• Data backup failure: Top 5 causes and tips for prevention

  What can you do to prevent data backup failure? Learn how using the 3-2-1 rule, turning to cloud backup and following other practical steps can help protect your data.Continue Reading

• 6 best practices for choosing a cloud backup provider

  Learn six criteria for choosing the best cloud backup vendor for your organization. Key among these is knowing your unique needs.Continue Reading

• Switch to a new data backup system without disruption

  Your organization may be looking to transition to a new data backup platform. Avoid potential pitfalls and make the change seamlessly with these guidelines.Continue Reading

• What are some public cloud backup options for better data protection?

  Organizations that need to protect resources in the public cloud have a number of backup possibilities, some with more hazardous negatives than others.Continue Reading

• Why do you need backup for Salesforce and other SaaS apps?

  Backup for Salesforce is available from several third-party vendors. Why aren't a lot of organizations doing it? Explore some of the many reasons why you need this backup.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

• How to make the most of secondary data storage workloads

  You get more out of your data when you use secondary storage effectively. Taking advantage of disk-based and hyper-converged backups -- and copy data management -- will help.Continue Reading

• Why a tape backup system is still a good storage option

  Tape backup isn't going anywhere just yet. Get the rundown on current uses for tape, accompanying technologies and vendor updates in this essential guide.Continue Reading

• What are some server and data migration best practices for backup?

  Are you ready for your next data migration project? Take the Myspace migration failure as motivation to implement data source and backup best practices.Continue Reading

• Backup scheduling best practices to ensure availability

  For daily work files, databases, and mission-critical systems and data, the more frequent the backup schedule, the better. But how often should you back up all your data?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

• How will CCPA compliance affect your backup storage?

  The new California privacy act creates more rights for consumers and their data. As a result, organizations holding consumer data will need to modify their backup approach.Continue Reading

• How can my backup and recovery plan be part of DR planning?

  Backup and recovery planning is not the same as disaster recovery planning. It's important that they work together, though, for better data protection.Continue Reading

• What are some data retention policy best practices?

  It's important for your organization to know which data it needs to retain. Some data is required for retention by law, so a written policy is helpful.Continue Reading

• Data protection systems must address GDPR, ransomware concerns

  Backup products don't have a granular enough understanding of data to scan or analyze it effectively and fully meet today's privacy and security requirements.Continue Reading

• Ransomware backup protection requires comprehensive approach

  A data protection strategy surrounding ransomware and backups is a must-have. Learn how to prepare for this new threat and ways to keep your architecture safe.Continue Reading

• How to protect backups from ransomware infiltration

  Your ransomware backup protection strategy needs to address advanced persistent threats that encrypt files over time. Learn how to restore backups to avoid a payout.Continue Reading

• Top 8 VMware vSphere backup best practices

  The architecture and operation of a virtual environment is different than a traditional backup environment and demands specific techniques. Learn top tips for backing up vSphere.Continue Reading

• Ransomware backup strategy guidelines to help ensure recovery

  Ransomware backup best practices are critical, as one attack can cripple a business. Here are three areas to focus on for optimal protection against ransomware.Continue Reading

• What are 3 best practices for compressed backups?

  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.Continue Reading

• Barracuda rep details natural disaster backup and recovery strategy

  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.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

• GDPR right to be forgotten and backups: What are potential problems?

  Removing personal data from a database is a simple process, but eliminating that information from full backups could undermine the integrity of your data. Proceed with caution.Continue Reading

• Backup management process: Which data sets not to back up

  Your backup strategy does not necessarily need to include backing up everything. Believe it or not, there are elements that do not require constant backup.Continue Reading

• What 3 issues can affect your data backup procedures?

  Do you have challenges with your data backup process, such as a lack of the right security? The three directives here will help with your overall business continuity.Continue Reading

• Inline deduplication vs. post-processing: Data dedupe best practices

  Will inline or post-processing deduplication work better for your data protection platform? There are several products on the market that offer these capabilities.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

• 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

• 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.Continue Reading

• How do I keep my virtualized backup secure?

  A virtual backup is not effective if it's not secure. Encryption, agentless backup and testing can all help. Explore the details of how to secure your backups.Continue Reading

• What's new with data protection systems? Everything

  The next backup hardware you purchase will likely come with integrated backup software. That changes the buying dynamic and complicates the decision-making process.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

• What are nine SaaS backup best practices?

  Software-as-a-service backup is an important, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of data protection. It's also complex, so planning, documentation and testing are key.Continue Reading

• The EU's GDPR will make us better storage managers

  The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation has organizations worldwide rethinking storage management to their and their customers' benefit.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

• Build data storage reliability into a backup infrastructure

  In today's market, there are a variety of data backup options. Here's how to make sure your organization's essential data will always be there when it is needed.Continue Reading

• Why is a cloud backup strategy necessary?

  When backing up to the cloud, it's important to take precautions against data loss. See how approaches like redundancy can bolster your backup strategy.Continue Reading

• How can I encrypt backups for better data protection?

  Don't let backup data encryption fall through the cracks. When encrypting backups, key management and compression are just two of the best practices for optimum security.Continue Reading

• Which data protection methods are here to stay?

  Despite a changing market, disk-based approaches like continuous backup and snapshots might still have a place in your backup and archiving strategy.Continue Reading

• Modern data backup trends include cloud archiving, analytics

  While technologies like snapshots may need some tweaking before becoming a widely used backup tool, the cloud will have a big year in the backup and data protection sphere.Continue Reading

• Three ransomware backup best practices to implement

  Data backups are not invincible to threats, and ransomware is no exception to that rule. Backups may help to reverse the damage done by an attack, but that's not their only use.Continue Reading

• GDPR requirements tackled by vendors in varied ways

  While vendors are aiding compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, it's up to organizations to change the culture around protecting customer data.Continue Reading

• LTO-8 tape standard to provide insurance against disaster

  LTO-8 tape, the next-generation Linear Tape-Open standard, arrives at a fortuitous moment for organizations of all sizes looking to store and protect more data than ever.Continue Reading

• How providers can ease cloud backup security fears

  Cloud backup may be the talk of the town, but according to one recent survey, it still has some ground to cover before it can win over the masses. What can cloud service providers do?Continue Reading

• Copy data management market tips, tricks and concerns

  If you're looking for a copy data management product -- and who isn't? -- you'll need to know what to look for in a vendor and what capabilities to expect.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

• When it comes to the role of tape, don't count it out just yet

  Tape data storage is very much alive as a means of seeding clouds with local data and as the main method for storing and archiving the tsunami of data facing all of us.Continue Reading

• How a backup data retention policy combats growing storage needs

  While a thorough backup system can protect your data, it can also lead to a rapid increase in the amount of data you have stored. A policy-based storage system may be able to help.Continue Reading

• How important are social media backup methods?

  Social network backup tools are hard to find, but they are out there. Like with file data, your organization should make sure its social media data is protected.Continue Reading

• Evaluate data backup and restoration efforts to gain business value

  In many organizations, data backups are performed at a much higher rate than restores. Fewer restores are never a bad thing, but is there a way to back up data more efficiently?Continue Reading

• Before you back up to the cloud, ask these big questions

  These five questions for providers will get you off on the right foot to backing up data to the cloud. Some considerations, like cost, may seem easy, but that's not the case.Continue Reading

• What are ghost imaging software benefits and drawbacks?

  Ghost imaging comes in many forms, and it has reached the cloud. It helps avoid much of the manual input of unit setup, but some vendors don't support ghosted units.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

• Does secure cloud backup exist and how can it be safer?

  Despite ransomware and other attacks causing security issues, it is possible to institute safe cloud backup. Access control and testing are among the best practices to follow.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

• How do I get started with Oracle backup scripts for RMAN?

  Using Oracle Recovery Manager for database backup and restore? Explore the Oracle backup script and command process, with options for specific scripts.Continue Reading

• What cybersecurity challenges do backup admins face besides ransomware?

  While ransomware remains a top threat, it is not the only cybersecurity problem data backup admins need to keep on their radar. Here are three more challenges for which to prepare.Continue Reading

• Can you provide some ransomware backup dos and don'ts?

  A layered protection strategy works best against ransomware. Organizations must be diligent about backing up data, monitoring suspicious activity and testing restores.Continue Reading

• How does deduplication in cloud computing work and is it beneficial?

  The deduplication process reduces the amount of data in a storage system, but dedupe in the cloud may be more valuable to the cloud provider than the customer.Continue Reading

• How the cloud fits in an enterprise data protection strategy

  Questions to ask when deciding which cloud services to use for backup, disaster recovery and other parts of your data protection strategy.Continue Reading

• How easy is a Veritas Backup Exec 16 upgrade from another version?

  With the right planning, transitioning to Backup Exec 16 from an earlier version can be smooth sailing, preserving data directories and retaining most settings.Continue Reading

• What are the downsides of copy data storage management?

  Copy data management can help an organization lower its costs by cutting back on extraneous copies of data, but the technology can cause performance bottlenecks.Continue Reading

• Your enterprise data protection strategy should include cloud and tape

  The cloud generally makes sense for shorter-term data retention, but find out how it can also play a role in keeping data for longer periods of time.Continue Reading

• Veritas Backup Exec 16: Two major supporting features shine

  Dig deeper into Veritas Technologies' Backup Exec 16 software, which can protect the 2016 edition of Hyper-V and support several cloud storage architectures.Continue Reading

• What should users of Dell EMC data protection products do post-merger?

  Dell EMC backup and recovery products may be in flux, but there are best practices that customers can follow to ensure a proper data protection strategy.Continue Reading

• Erasure coding vs. RAID: Benefits and challenges

  There is still a place for both RAID and erasure coding in today's computing environments. Explore each technology's use cases, drawbacks and best practices.Continue Reading

• Align data protection requirements and compliance

  While many compliance mandates discuss the importance of data protection guidelines, not all are as prescriptive as you'd think or like them to be.Continue Reading

• Five challenges to protecting data on mobile devices

  Mobile device protection can be problematic. Organizations that consider these areas of concern can get ahead of the trend and plan an all-encompassing data protection strategy.Continue Reading

• How can I ensure that my tape backup technology is secure?

  With the portability of tapes and the ability to store terabytes of data on a single cartridge, appropriate security of tape backup storage is imperative.Continue Reading

• Backup and disaster recovery services: A comprehensive guide

  Data backup and disaster recovery are constantly evolving areas of technology. We've assembled some of storage expert George Crump's best content on the topics.Continue Reading

• Hyper-convergence boosts data protection systems

  Though hyper-convergence originally dealt only with primary storage, these days, hyper-converged systems are an essential part of your data protection toolkit.Continue Reading

• Tape storage system viable for archiving, large backups

  No, the tape storage system isn't dead yet. This Drill Down explores how it lives on, mainly for archiving and with a boost from new technologies such as LTO-7 and Linear Tape File System, or LTFS.

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• How can I guarantee secure cloud backup between clouds?

  Cloud-based backups can be secured via a variety of methods. Backup software and erasure coding may be just what is needed to improve your cloud-to-cloud backup security.Continue Reading

• The next generation of data center protection products

  With hardware and software tools like secondary storage, copy data management and recovery-in-place, storage vendors are stepping up their data protection game.Continue Reading

• Five data migration approaches for cloud archiving

  Administrators can take several approaches to migrating data to a cloud archive, from manual migration to using cloud-integrated storage.Continue Reading

• How can I improve my SaaS backup strategy?

  Migrating to software as a service can benefit an organization, but there are some questions administrators need to ask when considering a cloud-to-cloud backup.Continue Reading

• Converged backup and archive strategy requires careful planning

  While converging backup and archiving may seem enticing, it's not always the right move. Explore important questions to ask before implementing this approach.Continue Reading

• Buffington: Data protection plans should contain technology 'spectrum'

  A comprehensive data protection plan must feature more than backup. Archiving, snapshots and replication are just a few of the technologies that organizations should consider.Continue Reading

• Virtual machine data recovery dos and don'ts for better backup

  Explore how virtual machine recovery works, but be careful with the process, as running a VM from backup data storage indefinitely can cause difficulties.Continue Reading

• Back up mobile data effectively with these five tips

  Mobile data backup should not be treated like a traditional backup. These guidelines will help your organization to better protect its mobile devices.Continue Reading