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How to Avoid Disaster Recovery Failures

Last Update: May 24, 2023

Experiencing a disaster is one of the worst possible events for both businesses and their IT departments. However, there is one worse event – failure to recover from the disaster.  While every IT department should have a disaster recovery (DR) plan, that doesn’t mean every DR plan will work. In the best case, a failure…

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Five Essential Disaster Recovery Test Scenarios

Last Update: May 24, 2023

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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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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Why You Need to Create an Incident Response Plan

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

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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Should you Consider Backup-as-a-Service?

Last Update: Sep 21, 2022

Instead of performing your backup with your centralized on-premises IT infrastructure, BaaS connects your protected systems to a public cloud managed by the cloud provider or MSP.

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Key Features for Disaster Recovery-As-A-Service (DRaaS)

Last Update: Sep 21, 2022

DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances.

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Cloud NAS Shootout: Amazon EFS/FSx versus Azure Files

Last Update: Aug 05, 2022

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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Get Ready for AWS Pi Day 2022

Last Update: Mar 15, 2022

Now that March is here it’s almost that time of year again. No, I don’t mean St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost time for AWS Pi Day 2022. Amazon S3, the first AWS service, was launched 16 years ago on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. On March 14th, 2022 Amazon will host its 2nd annual AWS…

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Amazon Adds AWS Backup to S3

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There’s no doubt that file systems are some of the most fundamental cloud services, as they provide storage for cloud-native apps, hybrid apps, and on-premise backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across your AWS services. Using AWS Backup and its new support for S3, you can centrally…

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Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

A lot of businesses are in the process of modernizing their applications as a part of their digital transformation strategies and the adoption of Kubernetes is a big part of this trend. As businesses have begun migrating toward containers and micros-service type applications, Kubernetes has been quickly becoming the defacto standard for container management and…

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Big Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This year’s AWS re:Invent conference is taking place from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3, 2021 at the Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The re:Invent conference is the biggest AWS event of the year. Unlike last year’s conference which was only online, this year’s re:Invent is a hybrid event that is both in-person and…

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