Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

What is Zero Trust Architecture? Why Is Zero Trust Architecture So Important Today? How a Zero Trust Architecture Is Implemented A zero trust architecture (ZTA) is not a catchall in cybersecurity, but it is a vast improvement on traditional network security techniques. In today’s landscape, trust should never be assumed.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput , we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 10, 2024

Taming the Storage Sprawl: Simplify Your Life with Fan-in Replication for Snapshot Consolidation by Pure Storage Blog As storage admins at heart, we know the struggle: Data keeps growing and applications multiply. Fan-in unifies backup tasks, replication jobs, and access control under one roof, streamlining your workflow.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Boost Your Cybersecurity IQ on the Pure Storage Blog. Below is just a sample of the resources you can find on our blog , including practical tips, strategies, and discussion guides. Below is just a sample of the resources you can find on our blog , including practical tips, strategies, and discussion guides. Ransomware.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Resilience Journey: Transforming EHR Data Protection by Pure Storage Blog The term “backup” had an entirely different meaning to clinicians during the early generations of electronic health record (EHR) systems. Likewise, backups have had to evolve to keep pace. But it wasn’t always that way.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 6, 2025

by Pure Storage Blog This is part one in a series about air gaps and resiliency architectures. Read part two: Without A Tiered Backup Architecture, Are You Truly Resilient? Thankfully, theres an arsenal of technologies and architecture paradigms to do just that. Take the attack on Colonial Pipelines back offices.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JULY 27, 2021

In this blog post, we share a reference architecture that uses a multi-Region active/passive strategy to implement a hot standby strategy for disaster recovery (DR). DR implementation architecture on multi-Region active/passive workloads. Fail over with event-driven serverless architecture. This keeps RTO and RPO low.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 20, 2021

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones (PHZs) and Resolver endpoints on AWS create an architecture best practice for centralized DNS in hybrid cloud environment. This blog presents an architecture that provides a unified view of the DNS while allowing different AWS accounts to manage subdomains. Architecture Overview.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JUNE 23, 2021

In my first blog post of this series , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore , pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. I use Amazon DynamoDB for the example architecture in Figure 2. DR strategies. Traffic routing.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 6, 2021

In Part I of this two-part blog , we outlined best practices to consider when building resilient applications in hybrid on-premises/cloud environments. In Part II, we’ll provide technical considerations related to architecture and patterns for resilience in AWS Cloud. Considerations on architecture and patterns.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 12, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, we looked at how to use AWS compute, networking, and security services to create a foundation for a multi-Region application. It can even be used to sync on-premises files stored on NFS, SMB, HDFS, and self-managed object storage to AWS for hybrid architectures. Copying backups. Related posts.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What is impressive with this release, however, is what we like to call the “analytics by day and backups by night” feature. For more on the history of S3 and how this feature came about, check out my previous blog post. Learn how to: Expand your edge to cloud architecture. Reduce backup times.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 22, 2022

Backups and other tasks are scheduled as regular tasks and done automatically behind the scenes. Automated billing systems could wreak havoc by sending invoices too early or too late, backups could be missed, appointments could be missed or deleted, and so on. Your backups don’t work. appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Non Disruptive Upgrades: The Pure Storage Ship of Theseus by Pure Storage Blog Summary With FlashArray, upgrades can be done non-disruptively in just one to two hours, providing both technical and financial benefits to organizations. Figure 1: Nine years of NDUs across three Pure Storage platforms.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What is Zero Trust Architecture? Why Is Zero Trust Architecture So Important Today? How a Zero Trust Architecture Is Implemented A zero trust architecture (ZTA) is not a catchall in cybersecurity, but it is a vast improvement on traditional network security techniques. In today’s landscape, trust should never be assumed.

Architecture 52

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” As you review the key objectives and recommendations, ask yourself: Is my security architecture resilient?

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Pure Storage

MAY 1, 2024

Reduce Ransomware Risk in Educational Institutions by Pure Storage Blog Ransomware attacks targeting educational institutions increased dramatically in 2023 , with K-12 schools seeing a major spike in these incidents. The fact is that ransomware attackers can breach your backups, too. But that is false confidence.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the most common ransomware attacks we see today is the destruction of backup data. The ability to recover quickly from this sort of destructive attack is a huge question mark for traditional backup systems or any purpose-built backup solution. Figure 1: FlashRecover//S architecture overview.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Legacy data protection solutions found in the market today were designed with yesteryear’s technology and are focused largely on backups versus recovery. Similarly, Cohesity’s DataLock is a time-bound, WORM lock on the immutable backup snapshot to prevent expiration or deletion.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 3, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at the various options you have to perform data backups and how to best back up your data to keep it safe in the event of cyberattacks, downtime, system failures, or anything else. Full Backups A full backup is the most common type of backup.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More truths from the survey: Data will become more and more central to every decision you make, which means it must be resilient and well-protected in digital, federated architectures. But not all backups are created equal. Data storage with immutable backups was the second most common defense investment (53%).

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This includes all traces, such as in backups or file servers. In storing different data sets, I find one of the most helpful approaches is a tiered backup architecture. Check out this post for an example of a tiered bunker architecture you can create with Pure. Data and backups safe from encryption or deletion.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

3 New IT Certifications That Will Define the Future of Enterprise Data Management by Pure Storage Blog At Pure Storage, we do things differently. Discover Pure IT Certifications The post 3 New IT Certifications That Will Define the Future of Enterprise Data Management appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Pure Storage and Veeam Partner for Unrivaled Data Protection with Unbeatable Economics by Pure Storage Blog In today’s data-driven world, there’s nothing more important than safeguarding critical information. FlashArray//E is purpose-built just for this task —making this the best time yet to move to all-flash modern data protection.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 14, 2021

In this blog post, you will learn about two more active/passive strategies that enable your workload to recover from disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Then we explored the backup and restore strategy. Backups are necessary to enable you to get back to the last known good state.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2024

Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data by Pure Storage Blog Imagine that your healthcare business pays $22 million in cryptocurrency to cybercriminals to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack that targeted a subsidiary, causing massive disruption across the industry.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 23, 2023

With Ransomware, Restore Is the New Backup by Pure Storage Blog What do Cisco, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and the San Francisco 49ers all have in common? It’s not about figuring out how to accelerate backups. The way we do backups isn’t usually visible to anyone but IT,” says Brasfield. Their takeaway?

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Prediction: The right architecture for the right use case will eliminate trade-offs. Now you get consistent management experience and the right architecture support for the right use case: containers, bare metal, and VMs. Pure Storage ® has embraced this too, beyond just simply supporting our storage with all three architectures. .

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AWS Disaster Recovery

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many AWS services have features to help you build and manage a multi-Region architecture, but identifying those capabilities across 200+ services can be overwhelming. In this 3-part blog series, we’ll explore AWS services with features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. Looking for more architecture content?

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 1, 2024

FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale by Pure Storage Blog FlashStack® for AI is a software-defined, intelligently managed, full-stack infrastructure featuring automated real-time scalability. New hardware requirements can be daunting to integrate and costly to deploy and manage.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 7, 2022

Know your tolerance for downtime, create a regular cadence for testing backups, and have plans for getting mission-critical data back online, such as a bunkered backup architecture or staged recovery environment. You’re not going to get the speed you need from legacy backup appliances, that’s for sure.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We address a scenario in which you are mandated to host the workload on a corporate data center (DC), and configure the backup site on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since the primary objective of a backup site is disaster recovery (DR) management, this site is often referred to as a DR site. Disaster Recovery on AWS.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 8, 2024

Resilient Data Protection for Critical Infrastructure by Blog Home Summary Bad actors are targeting critical infrastructure in an attempt to disrupt services citizens rely on. Backups should be the last line of defense. Many backups just aren’t fast enough to get critical services up and running after a total shutdown.

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OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 31, 2022

World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage. Backup has seen great advancement – even the standard 3-2-1 rule has added a digit or two. But those times are long gone.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fortifying Cyber Resilience: The Power of Defense-in-Depth from Pure Storage and Rubrik by Pure Storage Blog Summary Cyberattack vectors are evolving quickly and constantly. A new comprehensive reference architecture from Pure Storage and Rubrik provides a multi-layered approach that strengthens cyber resilience.

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Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

In part 2 of our three-part cloud data security blog series, we discussed the issue of complexity. A great way to make sure it’s protected no matter what happens is through solutions like Pure Storage ® SafeMode ™, a high-performance data protection solution built into FlashArray™ that provides secure backup of all data.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 5, 2024

A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware by Pure Storage Blog Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly bold these days, evolving their tactics and attacks as fast as we can evolve our defenses. Too many IT teams are failing to address obvious security gaps in backup and recovery infrastructure. Now you can.

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