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Protect Your Organization’s Assets: Disaster Recovery with Azure Backup

Azure Backup can be used to back up not only an organization’s critical cloud workloads but also all types of on-premises resources, even if they are running on Azure Stack HCI or Azure Stack Hub. Before explaining how Azure Backup can be set up and used for disaster recovery (DR), I want to get a...

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How Immutable Backups Protect Against Ransomware

Ransomware protection is one the most important topics for IT Pros and C-Level technology executives. Learn how immutable backups and immutable storage help to protect your organization against data corruption and loss, malware, viruses, and ransomware – and how to implement them.  This post is sponsored by Object First Veeam 2023 Ransomware trends report – most ransomware targets backups In May…

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Security

Is AI Going to Change Backup and Recovery Strategies?

If you’re following industry trends, there’s no doubt that generative AI is the hottest new technology of the past year. And with Microsoft, Google, and other major tech companies jumping on this generative AI bandwagon, this trend isn’t going to be abated anytime soon. In IT, a rapidly growing number of software vendors now have…

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How Destructive Testing Can Make Your Disaster Recovery Plans More Robust

If most organizations understand the need to have a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan, IT Pros should also know that testing these plans is essential. If you don’t implement disaster recovery testing, you won’t know if your plans will work when you need them. And to properly test your DR plans, you may want to break them….

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Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//E Blade Server Aims to Make Flash-Based Storage More Affordable

Pure Storage, the US-based company known for its innovative flash-based storage solutions recently unveiled FlashBlade//E, a new cost-effective solution for managing unstructured data using flash storage. The new offering follows the launch of the FlashBlade//S family last year that brought a modular architecture that separates compute from capacity. “Where FlashBlade//S is tuned for critical, high-performance…

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Security

Five Essential Disaster Recovery Test Scenarios

Almost every business knows that having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential. However, it’s equally important to test your disaster recovery plans, and not every business follows through on that point. In this article, I’m going to detail five essential disaster recovery test scenarios that your organization should consider to guarantee that its disaster…

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Security

Why You Need to Create an Incident Response Plan

To effectively handle various types of security break-ins, many organizations have created an incident response (IR) plan. In this article, I’ll explain what is an incident response plan, how it differs from a disaster recovery plan, and what steps you need to follow to create an effective IR plan for your organization. While most businesses…

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Storage

Backup Power Supplies and Strategies to Recover from Power Outages

Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping with power outages and having backup power may or may not play a big part in your disaster recovery plans. While it’s often overlooked, power is the one thing that all computing activities require, whether it is desktops, datacenters, or cloud computing. Backup power supplies…

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Cloud Computing

Reviewing Your Backup Checklist

With World Backup Day just behind us (and yes there really is such a thing – it was March 31st), now would be a good time to review your backup checklist to ensure your critical data has the protection that your organization requires. The following backup checklist can help guide you through the process of…

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Cloud Computing

Cloud NAS Shootout: Amazon EFS/FSx versus Azure Files

Organizations looking to move some or all of their file systems to cloud storage have choices. The options from the two biggest public cloud service providers are Microsoft Azure Files, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx. All these platforms offer cloud-based serverless storage, allowing you to avoid maintaining complex file systems. This article compares these options based on 4 key parameters –…

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