Opinion

Opinion

• Data backup strategies in 2020 vs. 2025: What's going to change?

  Let's look to the future -- all the way to the year 2025. How will data backup evolve? How will sharp increases in data volume affect backup strategies?  Continue Reading

• 2020 data backup trends aim for faster, cheaper

  These impending data backup trends will provide better peace of mind for the reliability of recovery and help your organization use backups more efficiently.  Continue Reading

• Does multi-cloud backup have a future, or is it hype?

  Backing up to multiple clouds can benefit your backup and recovery in different ways. However, from other important data protection perspectives, it may not be as beneficial.  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

• Data backup security measures to take ahead of a hurricane

  In this firsthand look, IT and storage expert Brien Posey details how he secured data backup and other important system elements as Hurricane Florence approached.  Continue Reading

• Preventing ransomware attacks is a top storage vendor claim

  Storage vendors advance silly and not-so-silly claims about how data backup and protection technologies are the answer to ransomware prevention and growing ransomware fatalism.  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

• Modern data backup technologies afford merging opportunities

  Through technologies such as copy data management, vendors are merging primary and secondary storage. There's more convergence ahead, within the likes of solid-state drives.  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

• 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

• 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

• Integrating the data protection process in the data center

  There are four approaches to an integrated data protection plan. Choosing among these and the many individual integrated data products available is a challenge for IT pros.  Continue Reading

• Start backing up to the cloud and merging disaster recovery

  To have strong cloud backup and recovery, choose your software and cloud service provider wisely. Then make sure you upload and update your data effectively.  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

• Object storage helps with ransomware protection

  Object storage that supports immutability or versioning can ensure a faster and easier recovery from ransomware attacks.  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

• 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

• Ransomware protection best served by backing up your data

  A recent survey illustrates how extensive ransomware threats have been, and Rich Castagna says backing up data remains your best defense  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

• 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

• Navigate the chaos of ephemeral data storage

  You may hear chatter that data is too ephemeral to go through the trouble of backing up and archiving it, but Jon Toigo says it's a worthy exercise.  Continue Reading

• Gold standard of data protection methods goes through sea of change

  Most enterprises now use four backup products for business data protection even though a unified product would do a better job of meeting their needs.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise data protection strategy requires evolution

  Your enterprise data protection family tree must incorporate both data availability and data management branches.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise data protection strategy needs archive, backup

  Whether you use disk, tape or cloud in your enterprise data protection, where you send your archives and backups is up to you.  Continue Reading

• Now's the time to virtualize backup deduplication

  Converged infrastructures and hyper-converged appliances have left backup deduplication among the few physical parts of the storage infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Data backup options lag, yet CDP adoption still lacking

  Data backup options that call for protecting data created by 21^st century apps with 20^th century tools just won't work.  Continue Reading

• Data protection vendors fight for cloud storage title

  Though major cloud storage service providers like AWS, Azure and Google lead on price, they may be lacking for data protection services.  Continue Reading

• Mix and match data protection methods

  Disk, tape and the cloud all help ensure rapid recovery, reliable retention and data agility. Each should be part of your data protection strategy.  Continue Reading

• The zettabytes are coming...fight back

  Explosive data growth has brought about a commensurate increase in zettabytes, but a smart, proactive approach to archiving can help.  Continue Reading

• Corporate data protection poses same challenges as BYOD

  Backup admins and IT pros must work together to ensure corporate data protection among a decentralized workforce who embrace BYOD philosophy.  Continue Reading

• Tape storage capacity faces challenge of Z apocalypse

  LTO vendors boost tape storage capacity of new product launches in preparation for the forthcoming apocalypse of the zettabyte.  Continue Reading

• ROBO backup necessary for ample corporate data protection

  There is no universal set of rules for ROBO backup. But all corporate data protection plans need to consider it, Jason Buffington explains.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged vendors focus on data protection

  Hyper-convergence has impacted primary storage, but Arun Taneja says hyper-converged vendors are bringing the concept to data protection.  Continue Reading

• Backup as a service isn't for everyone

  When it comes to their channel partners' ability to deliver backup as a service, backup vendors have plenty of misconceptions.  Continue Reading

• Backup, DR and archive: Untapped data protection processes

  A single pool of data created by merging backup, DR and archive that can serve multiple data protection needs could spawn new ideas about how to use that data.  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine backups remedy outdated legacy backups

  Virtual machine backups are widely available, but many shops are ignoring the technology until their application performance suffers.  Continue Reading

• Gmail outage illustrates the importance of tape backups

  The 2011 email disaster Google suffered showed why redundancy is woefully inadequate for DR and demonstrated the importance of tape backups.  Continue Reading

• Take a hybrid approach to your data protection plan

  The cloud can have major limitations when it comes to long-term retention. Learn why tape and disk should remain part of your data protection plan.  Continue Reading

• Why copy data management matters

  Your organization requires better data protection that responds to its scaling needs. Copy data management (CDM) could be the answer.  Continue Reading

• Are cloud storage gateways the new virtual tape library?

  Cloud gateways drop into your environment and offer great benefits, but they could go the way of the VTL without innovation from vendors.  Continue Reading

• Symantec breakup should help its storage business

  Symantec breakup hopes to undo the Backup Exec 2012 fiasco which followed its Veritas acquisition.  Continue Reading

• The economics of enterprise data protection

  Sticking with the status quo can be expensive when it comes to data protection. Learn how an upgrade can save money.  Continue Reading

• Virtual data protection requires fresh approach to backup

  Virtual data protection strategies require admins to modernize production and protection at the same time to lessen the impact on performance.  Continue Reading

• Symantec Backup Exec 2014 fixes BE 2012's mistakes

  Symantec Backup Exec 2014 returned the Backup Exec 2012 features that customers wanted back.  Continue Reading

• Mend traditional data protection methods with new technology

  Getting the redundancy out of data protection methods may require tools that don't yet exist.  Continue Reading

• Backup and archive continue to converge

  Backup and archive aren't the same thing (we're well past that notion), but they may still leverage the same technologies.  Continue Reading

• Data protection and retention isn't just about disk

  Disk is great for backups and speedy recoveries, but tape is still the best choice for data protection and retention.  Continue Reading

• Speed up cloud storage with WAN acceleration technology ... or Tachyons

  But if you don't have any of those hypothetical particles that move faster than light, there might be another way to implement WAN acceleration technology in your environment.  Continue Reading

• Mobile device backup might be impossible

  Doing a selective mobile device backup that separates work data and personal data can't be done, but perhaps not for the reasons you think.  Continue Reading

• Data storage and backup? Fuggedaboutit!

  Many storage shops are fighting a losing battle when it comes to data storage and backup protection, with too much data and not enough time. Maybe it's time to rethink the process.  Continue Reading

• The evolution of data deduplication technology continues

  Data deduplication technology for backup has evolved enormously in the last decade, and it's poised to go beyond just backup.  Continue Reading

• What will be the role of tape in a cloud-based world?

  Although the role of tape in traditional backup operations might be diminishing, it still has a place in long-term data retention and even cloud storage services.  Continue Reading

• Cloud has a silver lining for ROBO storage

  Providing and managing storage for remote and branch offices can be a challenge, but a hybrid approach using local and cloud-based storage may be the best solution.  Continue Reading

• We need a backup data deduplication layer

  As backup dedupe matures, it's still very much a proprietary technology. We need standardization to eliminate some of today's software-hardware headaches.  Continue Reading

• Take a hybrid approach to data storage protection

  The old fundamentals of data storage protection that required separate processes for backup, DR and archive can't keep up with today's data capacities.  Continue Reading

• Private cloud backup needs to get better

  There are several ways to back up private cloud data, but none of them is ideal.  Continue Reading

• Linear Tape File System needs a boost

  The Linear Tape File System spec is more than two years old, but still only used in a handful of products. Maybe SNIA's new working group will inspire LTFS product development.  Continue Reading