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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Solutions Review

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Read on for more Object First Survey Showcases the Essential Nature of Immutable Storage It’s clear that traditional security measures are no longer sufficient, and most IT leaders understand the need to ramp up the security of their backup storage architectures and tools. Read on for more RegScale Launches 6.0

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! Backups from January were restored to 3, but the Robocopy job sought Server 1. Beware false comforts; verify backups thoroughly.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 16, 2022

The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best backup and restore courses and online training to consider. The growing importance of backup and restore best practices and techniques for maintaining business continuity are becoming paramount in the enterprise. Veeam Backup & Replication Beginner to Advanced.

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 27, 2024 Cayosoft Secures Patent for Active Directory Recovery Solution Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery’s patented approach solves these issues by functioning as an AD resilience solution rather than a typical backup and recovery tool.

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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. Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. 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

JULY 17, 2023

As you review the key objectives and recommendations, ask yourself: Is my security architecture resilient? Those investments add up to one concept: a tiered resiliency architecture. A three-tiered resiliency architecture can protect your entire data estate, which I outlined how to do do this in this article.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Cost: Backups cost money. Both represent critical points of failure.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Cost: Backups cost money. Both represent critical points of failure.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

However, because setting it up involves rebuilding much of the organization’s network security architecture, implementing it is a serious burden and a major project, one that typically takes multiple years. Once it’s in place, Zero Trust is highly secure and very convenient.

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OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The cloud has a lot going for it as a backup and disaster recovery (DR) target. In fact, some in the backup community say that storing backups in the cloud, alone, is enough to meet the 3-2-1 rule (three copies of the data in two different media with one offsite). The use of cloud services in backup is growing.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Data protection is a broad field, encompassing backup and disaster recovery, data storage, business continuity, cybersecurity, endpoint management, data privacy, and data loss prevention. Acronis offers backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share solutions. Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order.

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Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

With an ever-increasing dependency on data for all business functions and decision-making, the need for highly available application and database architectures has never been more critical. . Database restores and recoveries using RMAN backups, file system copies, or database exports are slow compared to the use of storage snapshots.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 13, 2022

Knowing that you have a backup in place provides peace of mind that you can keep your business moving forward. But having to wait hours, days, or—let’s face it—weeks in some cases for a backup to restore can cause significant pain to the operation of the business. Simple Architecture, Simple Scale.

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Solutions Review

JUNE 16, 2023

The ability to look inside storage and backups by means of an index and catalog also helps understand its usability and lineage. In this case, rather than backing up all the objects that comprise the data lake for 6 years, data classification during backups can reduce costs by over 90% without any compromises to security and compliance.

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IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. The outage was caused by a bad security update rolled out by CrowdStrike. Without question, this is one of the most expensive IT outages to date, with significant global impact. million Windows devices.

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Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

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. Each service in a microservice architecture, for example, uses configuration metadata to register itself and initialize.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

When a hurricane leads to widespread power outages, flooding, and workforce disruption, for example, an effective disaster recovery plan ensures that IT systems remain up and running and that operations can come back online as soon as possible. This includes minimizing downtime, minimizing data loss, and ensuring business continuity.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Readiness starts with an effective disaster recovery plan that incorporates backup systems, data replication, and testing procedures to ensure that the plan will work in practice. This typically involves detailed technical strategies for system failover, data recovery, and backups. What Is Business Continuity Planning?

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

But even internally, an outage can be disastrous. If you don’t pay up, it will be up to you to get systems back online and recover data from whatever backup and restore solutions you have. In some cases, without the right backup and recovery solution, this process can cost more than paying the ransom.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. In the simplest case, we’ve deployed an application in a primary Region and a backup Region. Failover plan dependencies and considerations.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 12, 2024

A recent Pure Storage survey found that 69% of organizations consider recovering from a cyber event to be fundamentally different from recovering from a “traditional” outage or disaster. In short, you need a resilient architecture that lets you recover quickly. Learn more about how Pure Storage helps you build a resilient architecture.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 27, 2022

Elasticsearch workload data is often overlooked as a part of common backup and restore strategies on-site. This option occurs when there’s a lack of backup strategy for an Elasticsearch system. A server failure could mean having to reload from an OS-level backup or a rebuild before the data could be restored.

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FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

Supply chain resiliency can be defined as understanding the components of your supply chain for all critical business processes, as well as having backups for each component and a clearly defined plan for switching to a backup. The first step is to document critical business processes and the suppliers used to support each process.

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Pure Storage

JULY 6, 2021

Second is a disturbing trend of late: targeting essential service providers that lead to massive outages and widespread disruptions. If you have an airtight, holistic prevention, backup, and recovery plan in place, you’re less likely to be a victim of a devastating ransomware attack. How Can You Avoid Being a Ransomware Victim?

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Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

VDI deployment needs to be done on an architecture that is simple and can scale and integrate. You get the latest in compute, network, and storage components in a single integrated architecture that accelerates time to deployment, lowers overall IT costs, and reduces deployment risk. . Cache Assignment. Storage Pools. Front-end Ports.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

how quickly power is restored) If the organization has a backup environment to recover to and resume operations Mean time to discovery (MTTD) Note: Recovery times are often measured in recovery time objectives (RTOs) which dictate the maximum time that a system can be offline.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

Even with backups, it was six days before the energy company was able to get its systems up and running again. Typically, this will involve the use of redundant systems, disaster recovery as a service , and resilient data storage architectures designed to support rapid and complete recovery. Downtime is enormously expensive.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

Even with backups, it was six days before the energy company was able to get its systems up and running again. Typically, this will involve the use of redundant systems, disaster recovery as a service , and resilient data storage architectures designed to support rapid and complete recovery. Downtime is enormously expensive.

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2024

Modular design: Modular architecture allows for easier upgrades and reduces waste during expansions or renovations. These facilities can better withstand environmental stresses and potential disruptions by implementing more efficient cooling systems, backup power solutions, and robust infrastructure.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

In part two of this series, we introduced a DR concept that utilizes managed services through a backup and restore strategy with multiple Regions. During an outage in the primary Region, Velero restores volumes from the latest snapshots in the standby cluster. The post also introduces a multi-site active/passive approach.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2021

“Simple backup of data storage is no longer sufficient. Backup and DR as a service, security as a service, managed threat detection and response as well as the continued adoption of other as-a-service options that may not include a management wrap to them. ” High Availability Protection for Storage Will Become Standard.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

The native Kubernetes solution drives a “data protection as code” strategy, integrating backup and disaster recovery operations into the application development lifecycle from day one. Backup to a Cloud Bucket. This means that applications are born protected. Disaster Recovery & Data Protection All-In-One.

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Pure Storage

JULY 13, 2023

And it has the protective benefits of specialized cluster servers and regular backups to separate nodes or data centers. Pure offers additional architectural guidance and best practices for deploying MySQL workloads on VMware in the new guide, “ Running MySQL Workloads on VMware vSphere with FlashArray Storage.” It can be virtualized.

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Pure Storage

MAY 20, 2022

A retail store saves its server backup and recovery data in cloud-based object storage, so it’s still available in the event of a natural disaster or local outage. For instance, Pure Storage offers unified fast file and object (UFFO) , a new category of storage architectured to address the demands of modern applications.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

AUGUST 5, 2020

The collapse of the building structurally compromised a nearby law office, an architectural firm had water damage, and surrounding buildings had smoke and broken window damage. Unexpected power outages and equipment failures were familiar events that crippled technology but not manual procedures.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Performing real-time diagnostics, automating backup and recovery procedures and more. Automated Backup and Recovery Processes: How it Works: AI automates the backup and recovery of data, ensuring that critical information is continuously protected. This flexibility ensures continuity in the event of on-site disruptions.

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