Pure Storage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

One Pure Storage customer has done this to their original FlashArray FA-420 purchased in 2013 to include their controllers, bus architectures, and DirectFlash® Modules (DFMs) to become a FlashArray//X70 R3. This will present a system stability problem in an unexpected component outage because critical data will be lost.

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Architecture Outage Airlines Activation 119

PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Benefit: Maintains cloud infrastructure consistency, minimizing the risk of configuration drift, which can lead to unexpected outages or security vulnerabilities. Automated Backup and Recovery Description: Regular backups are critical for business continuity. Automated backups ensure that data is always recoverable.

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Vulnerability Backup Outage Application 64

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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Backup Outage Capacity Architecture 105

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.

Disaster Recovery 105

Disaster Recovery Backup Architecture Cloud Computing 105

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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Cybersecurity Resilience Architecture Backup 98

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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Backup Outage Architecture Business Continuity 52

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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High Availability Outage Application Architecture 98

PagerDuty

MARCH 6, 2025

You need a robust backup plan and multiple channels of communication and response. Effective failover methods must include independent, automated channels (online and offline) for both notifications and critical data access, and a distributed system architecture, integrated with backup systems and tools.

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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.

Backup 52

Backup Disaster Recovery Failover Outsourcing 52

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. Backup solutions regularly back up critical data and store it securely, ensuring rapid recovery without succumbing to extortion demands. Recover and restore operations Restore data from secure backups if available.

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Security Vulnerability Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience 52

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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Backup Disaster Recovery Risk Management Cybersecurity 52

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.

Security 98

Security Backup Government Application 98

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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Disaster Recovery Architecture Pandemic Business Continuity 122

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.

Backup 69

Backup Outage Authentication Architecture 69

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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Insurance Insurance Backup Healthcare 92

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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Outage Backup Media Disaster Recovery 52

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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Backup Architecture Outage Management 87

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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Disaster Recovery Failover Outage Application 78

AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup.

Disaster Recovery 61

Disaster Recovery Architecture Internet Outage 61

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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Disaster Recovery Backup Outage Architecture 52

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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Disaster Recovery Backup Outage Architecture 52

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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Benchmark Cyber Resilience Outage Backup 52

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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Backup Application Outage Media 52

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.

Security 52

Security Architecture Outage Alert 52

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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Disaster Recovery Failover Application Vulnerability 98

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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Disaster Recovery Activation Failover Management 90

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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Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Continuity Planning Impact Analysis 100

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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Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Continuity Planning Impact Analysis 100

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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Resilience Backup Architecture Cybersecurity 52

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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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning 52

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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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning 52

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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Resilience Failover Financial Services Cyber Resilience 52

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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Disaster Recovery Backup eCommerce Malware 52

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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Cybersecurity Audit Evaluation Authentication 52

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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Capacity Architecture Retail Travel 52

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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Disaster Recovery Retail Manufacturing Architecture 52

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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Disaster Recovery Retail Manufacturing Architecture 52