Cloud backup

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

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor
• Eric Siebert

U.K. trade union fends off ransomware with Asigra backup

After moving off of tapes to Asigra software for disk and cloud backup, the Public and Commercial Services Union gained faster restores -- and foiled a ransomware attack. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

XenData introduces magnetic tape backup migration service

XenData now offers a service to move magnetic tape backup data to either a newer tape format or to cloud, allowing customers with old tapes to get rid of legacy systems. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity backup gains ransomware detection, SAP HANA restores

Cohesity backup boosts its anti-ransomware capabilities with a new DataLock feature to prevent unauthorized backup deletion and releases a certified integration with SAP HANA. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Veeam cloud backup gains tiering, mobility, AWS enhancements

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. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

CloudEndure acquisition expands AWS' cloud migration tools

AWS' acquisition of CloudEndure underscores the move toward multi-cloud, as well as demand from customers for an easier path to public cloud. Continue Reading

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• Chris Kanaracus

ROI considerations with a hyper-converged data protection platform

Do the benefits of a single operating environment and improved cloud support outweigh the costs associated with switching to hyper-converged data protection? Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Backup hardware devices: 2018 Products of the Year 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. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

AsTech uses Flexential data center for backup and DRaaS

When remote automotive diagnostics provider AsTech grew too big for its on-premises data center, it turned to colocation with Flexential for backup and disaster recovery. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

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

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

IT storage team skills for hyper-converged secondary storage

Is your IT storage team ready for the arrival of hyper-converged secondary storage? Learn what storage skills pros need now in order to take on this latest development in storage tech. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

Carbonite backup integrates with Iron Cloud

An expanded strategic partnership will bring Carbonite data protection products to Iron Cloud customers. Both vendors are confident the move will prove mutually beneficial. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Disaster recovery to cloud popular in 2018

As data continued to grow in 2018, more and more businesses turned to a cloud disaster recovery strategy to take some of the burden off their data centers. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

What are 3 top data protection trends expected in 2019?

Top trends in data protection include more comprehensive backup platforms. With data in many different places, including multiple clouds, products must cover a lot of ground. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Google Cloud disaster recovery helped save data after Maria

In an area vulnerable to hurricanes, restaurant chain Grupo Colón Gerena turned to Scale Computing's HC3 Cloud Unity and Google Cloud DR to stay ahead of the storms. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Acronis updates Data Cloud with more ransomware protection

Acronis Data Cloud 7.8 adds cloud-centric data protection features to grow the vendor's managed service provider customer base. The vendor also added a physical shipping service. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Physical vs. virtual backup appliances: Make the best choice

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. Continue Reading

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• Jerome Wendt

Igneous Systems strengthens public cloud integrations

New public cloud enhancements give Igneous customers granular control of their data, letting them move individual data sets to any storage tier in public clouds. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Druva CloudRanger launches automated disaster recovery

Druva automates its disaster recovery for AWS workloads through its recent addition of CloudRanger. Updates to the product also include compliance-specific features. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Druva backup supports AWS Snowball Edge appliances

Druva customers can perform cloud migration to Amazon Web Services more simply due to Druva Cloud Platform's integration with AWS Snowball Edge devices. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Carbonite backup comes to virtual machines

Now called Carbonite Server VM Edition, the latest expansion of Carbonite's backup capabilities signifies the vendor's strategic push into the midmarket. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Azure Backup service best practices to streamline protection

Is Azure Backup the right protection for your organization? Explore three important considerations for using the Microsoft service to back up your data. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

3 best practices for backing up Office 365 data

There are plenty of Office 365 backup providers out there, but how do you get started? For one thing, think of your cloud data as if it were on premises. Continue Reading

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• Nick Cavalancia, Techvangelism

Commvault backup-as-a-service portfolio expands by 3 options

Commvault enhances its cloud-based data protection suite by offering its flagship Complete Backup & Recovery software as a service, with new services for VMs and native cloud apps. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Arcserve cloud platform eyes comprehensive business continuity

The Business Continuity Cloud brings together the spectrum of Arcserve's technologies. Through the web-based user interface, users can perform most jobs in a few clicks. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Evolving data protection technologies require attention

The data protection market is evolving. In this podcast, Arcserve's Oussama El-Hilali explains why his company is focusing on cloud and where you should direct your attention. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

HPE StoreOnce backup adds capacity, protection capabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise spruces up StoreOnce secondary storage with federated management of up to 100 appliances. HPE also deepened the StoreOnce integration with Commvault. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Kaseya cloud backup expands with Spanning acquisition

Kaseya's cloud backup capabilities now extend to Office 365, Salesforce and G Suite, thanks to the acquisition of cloud-to-cloud backup specialist Spanning Cloud Apps. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

CEO sees Druva backup as cloud management play

Druva strategy includes first helping customers move backup data to the cloud over the short term, then managing it all after it's there a few years down the road. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cloud migration to AWS keeps GSM afloat during Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey struck GS Marketing's office in 2017. Thanks to a migration to the AWS cloud, the company avoided going underwater, even if its data center was. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

How the top cloud storage vendors stack up for backup

Don't pick a cloud storage and backup vendor just because you've heard it's reputable. We lay out the features you need to compare among the Big Three providers. Continue Reading

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• Nick Cavalancia, Techvangelism

Cohesity backup further integrates with Azure and Office 365

Cohesity cozies up to Microsoft with deeper support for Office 365 Exchange Online, the ability to protect data in Azure Data Box, and DR capabilities in Azure cloud. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Imanis Data 4.0 introduces autonomous backups, NoSQL support

Imanis enables the protection of NoSQL databases with no human intervention through new SmartPolicies, along with automated RPO-based backup and improved ransomware detection. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

BackupAssist software offers cloud-to-local backup

BackupAssist 365 can be set to automatically download files and email mailboxes from the cloud to an on-premises device, creating local backups as a cloud-to-cloud alternative. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Rubrik backup suite bolstered by new Datos IO release

Seven months after acquiring Datos IO, Rubrik adds NoSQL data protection with the release of Rubrik Datos IO 3.0, addresses distributed database protection for the first time. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

New Asigra backup appliance targets ransomware

The evolution of Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved results in an integrated appliance with partner iXsystems, called the Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance with ransomware detection. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

JetStream Data Protection safeguards data on the cloud

JetStream's Data Protection product uses continuous data capture technology to bring data resiliency to the cloud software company's data management platform. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cloud-based backups aid overall data protection plan

From cost to off-site protection, cloud backup offers many benefits. This podcast details the good, but also the bad and the ugly, when it comes to cloud. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Acronis True Image backup tackles cyber protection

Acronis True Image 2019 takes on security issues, including still-prevalent ransomware attacks. The consumer and SMB software also adds backup cleanup and a recovery 'Survival Kit.' Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

New Cohesity backup adds Helios SaaS management

The new Cohesity SaaS app lets users view, manage and make changes to secondary data and applications across multiple clusters through a single dashboard. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Rubrik backup helps Castilleja School move to cloud

California school sees Rubrik converged data protection and AWS S3 as key building blocks for a multi-cloud strategy, with archiving as the first step. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Quest launches QoreStor for appliance-free dedupe

Quest strips the data deduplication software out of DR appliances, launching it as the independent QoreStor application, which supports any vendor's backup hardware. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

HYCU moves beyond Nutanix backup with Google Cloud support

HYCU's first non-Nutanix-based product is backup for Google Cloud Platform, ahead of Nutanix's Xi Cloud Services partnership with Google due later this year. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Druva CloudRanger finds home in Cloud Platform

With the integration of CloudRanger, Druva's Cloud Platform now provides protection and management of data centers, software as a service, end-user devices and cloud workloads. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Notre Dame uses N2WS Cloud Protection Manager for backup

The University of Notre Dame has moved 80% of its academic and administrative data to the AWS cloud, and relies on N2WS' Cloud Protection Manager to back up and protect it. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Datrium DVX switches focus to converged markets, enterprise

Datrium approaches HCI in a nontraditional way, but its DVX architecture combines compute and storage while pumping up its data protection capabilities. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cloud Daddy enters AWS data protection fray

Cloud Daddy's Secure Backup offers five levels of protection. The new company has jumped into a growing and necessary market of AWS data backup, recovery and security. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

SaaS backup tips, trends outlined by Spanning VP

Mat Hamlin, vice president of products at Spanning, details the importance of backing up SaaS applications and being able to restore those cloud workloads successfully. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

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

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• Stuart Burns

Enterprises wrestle with OpenStack backup, DR challenges

To work around the manual and often tedious processes associated with OpenStack DR and backup, some enterprises have turned to third-party tools. Continue Reading

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• Alan R. Earls

Multi-cloud data backup: Choices and challenges

With many organizations putting data in more than one cloud, multi-cloud backup has become an important element of protection. Organizations should tread carefully. Continue Reading

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• Stuart Burns

Druva Cloud Platform enhanced with CloudRanger acquisition

Druva will replace its Apollo product with the services of CloudRanger, following its acquisition of the AWS data protection vendor. Druva's Cloud Platform continues to evolve. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

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

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• Stuart Burns

Asigra backup targets ransomware 'Attack-Loop'

Version 14 of Asigra Cloud Backup features a partnership with security vendors to help find ransomware in backups. New variants can stay dormant until the data recovery process. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Carbonite CEO discusses data protection threats, developments

Mohamad Ali, president and CEO of Carbonite, reflects on his trip to the State of the Union, how his job compares to previous high-profile positions and what's next for the vendor. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

How should the virtualized backup market evolve?

GDPR looms large over many data protection processes, and virtual backup is no different. Overall management is important as well, as data volume continues to grow. Continue Reading

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• Stuart Burns

Moving data from a monolith to microservices architecture

Monolithic apps may contain a wealth of data within them. Moving to microservices means you need a plan for storing, accessing and backing up in a microservice database. Continue Reading

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• Twain Taylor, Twain Taylor Consulting

Kaseya backup takes on Office 365 with Spanning's help

Kaseya Office 365 Backup is integrated deeply with the vendor's remote monitoring and management software. Spanning's cloud-to-cloud technology provides the muscle behind it. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Rubrik Polaris SaaS app targets multi-cloud data

Rubrik takes another step toward cloud data management with Polaris GPS, a SaaS app that brings together secondary data stored in on-premises appliances and across clouds. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Spanning Backup for Salesforce enhances metadata restore

Spanning Backup makes it easier for Salesforce administrators who deal with metadata. Direct restore improves self-service of important Salesforce work. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Cohesity DataPlatform now spans file, object storage

Cohesity's DataPlatform tackles unstructured data through SpanFS, which manages file and object storage and expands the vendor's converged secondary storage platform. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Veritas CloudPoint aims for multi-cloud data protection

CloudPoint 2.0 now includes built-in content indexing from snapshots, application persistent snapshots and auto discovery of new cloud instances in Microsoft and Google clouds. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Latest Carbonite acquisition adds Mozy backup

Carbonite stays busy with its pending acquisition of Mozy and a forthcoming DRaaS product. The data protection vendor also announced its revenue results. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

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

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

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

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Datos IO gobbled up by Rubrik

Datos IO's ability to protect applications built on NoSQL databases caught the attention of Rubrik, which strives to protect all data stored on premises and in the cloud. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Dell EMC unveils the DD3300, its latest Data Domain appliance

Dell EMC's latest addition to the Data Domain line targets SMBs and enterprises with remote offices. The system includes Data Domain Boost technology and cloud tiering software. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct cuts downtime for cloud DR

Arcserve UDP delivers short RPO and RTO for backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. The upgraded platform targets the enterprise and medium-sized businesses. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Veeam acquisition of N2WS enhances cloud protection

Veeam will integrate N2WS technology into the Availability Platform. The companies' research and development teams will work together following Veeam's acquisition of N2WS. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

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

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• John Edwards

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

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• Brien Posey

Cloud storage adoption decisions weigh capacity and cost

Acquiring storage capacity -- particularly for backup, archiving, DR and collaborative purposes -- dominates as the main reason for storage cloud adoption trends in the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Cloud data backup services minimize outage, security risks

Backups are critical in any cloud strategy, but where you store that data is just as important. Explore these automated backup tools and services to avoid risks later. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Actifio Sky adds intelligent search across clouds

Actifio's Sky goes beyond copy data management. It searches and manages data across clouds and on-premises storage with new analytics and a global catalog. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

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

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• Alastair Cooke

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

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• Alastair Cooke

Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

Enterprises look for the best deal from the vendor with the best reputation when turning to the cloud to tame growing data volumes for archiving, backup and more. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

2017 IT spending trends for data storage

For the 15^th year, Storage magazine has surveyed storage pros to learn about their IT spending trends for the coming months. As you'd expect, the cloud continues to pick up steam for both primary and secondary projects, while all-flash arrays and SSDs also rated highly. Hyper-converged interest, meanwhile, nearly doubled over 2016. See how your 2017 shopping list compares to today's IT spending trends.

When SSDs supplanted HDDs, it revealed many deficiencies in the traditional RAID array model. Storage vendors changed course, leading to the highly scalable, fast and reliable hyper-converged systems of today. Is it time to go all-in with hyper-convergence?

IT is rapidly evolving to keep pace with today's data-intensive business apps and trends, such as the internet of things. For storage, this means newer silicon tech, inherent analytics, embedding hybrid cloud tiering and (often) convergence with or hosting of core data processing directly, and new management techniques.

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Flash, cloud top data storage options for storage pros

Cloud is popular among data storage priorities for primary and backup storage, while most say they will use flash in primary data storage. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo and James Alan Miller

Get smart with cloud backup security through 'CIA'

Encryption is just one important element of backup data security in the cloud. Ask the right questions of your organization and your cloud provider to make sure your data is safe. Continue Reading

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• Alastair Cooke

Announcing the best data storage products of 2016!

This year marks the 15^th edition of the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year awards, recognizing the best storage products of the past year. Nominated products competed across six categories, with the top in each category receiving bronze, silver or gold. Judges graded finalists on innovation, performance, manageability, ease of integration and use, functionality and value.

Modern storage arrays may offer previously unheard of max capacities, but that doesn't mean you won't have problems meeting today's ever-increasing storage capacity and performance requirements. We explore how to squeeze more bits and bytes out of storage systems without negatively affecting storage network performance through best practices for evaluation and configuration as well as tools to help with monitoring and management.

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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

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

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

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• Chris Evans

EMC launches DD VE, virtual edition of Data Domain

EMC unveils the virtual edition of its Data Domain disk library, DD VE, allowing the Data Domain operating system to run inside a VMware hypervisor and back up to any hardware. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

When does storage snapshot technology work best?

Snapshots do not replace backup, but they can be used to enhance a data protection strategy if you use them at the right time and for the right tasks. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Microsoft Azure VM backup methods beyond Azure Backup vault

You can back up an Azure VM using several different methods. Microsoft's preferred technique is to use Azure Backup vault, but this may not be the best choice in every situation. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Docker data container protection methods: Pros and cons

While Docker data container protection methods haven't reached the level found with hypervisor-based virtual machines, these four technologies can help users with the challenge. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Geocluster vs. off-site replication for VM protection

Is a geocluster or virtual machine replication the best option for VM protection? Both approaches protect VM workloads by moving them to an alternate data center during a disaster. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

What is NetBackup Instant Recovery for VMware?

Symantec's NetBackup Instant Recovery for VMware feature can provide organizations with instant recovery capabilities, but backup server power issues can be a concern. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Avoid Docker host backup issues on Hyper-V virtual machines

Learn about common issues associated with Docker host backup on Hyper-V and how to avoid them. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

How can I reduce my cloud storage costs?

What are the top five ways to save money on cloud storage costs for data protection? Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Backing up Linux VMs running on Microsoft Hyper-V

Independent backup expert Brien Posey explains what you should know about backing up Linux VMs running on Microsoft Hyper-V. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Hypervisor-based replication in VMware and Hyper-V

Independent backup expert Brien Posey discusses native hypervisor-based replication in VMware and Hyper-V, in this Expert Answer. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Ten common reasons for VM restore failure

When a VM restore fails, you must troubleshoot quickly. Event logs are a good start, but can be cryptic. Here are 10 causes of VM restore failures. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Cloud survey uncovers seven storage services trends

Latest TechTarget cloud survey finds cloud backup, cloud file sync and share, disaster recovery and archiving are most popular uses of cloud storage. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

IPhone vs. Android backup

Eric Slack of Storage Switzerland compares iPhone and Android backup in this Expert Answer. Continue Reading

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• Eric Slack, Evaluator Group

Should you back up Google Drive contents?

George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses whether it is necessary to back up Google Drive contents in this Expert Answer. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Should you back up Dropbox contents?

George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses whether it is necessary to back up Dropbox contents in this Expert Response. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Backup challenges: Slow backup and recovery, growing capacity demands

Our recent survey data indicates slow backup and recovery, growing capacity demands and virtual server backup remain IT pain points. Continue Reading

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• John Hilliard, TechTarget
• Andrew Burton