Archives of Back Up and Data Recovery

Serverless: The future of cloud computing?

Serverless: The future of cloud computing? While the cloud lends companies more agility, New York Times CTO Nick Rockwell says event-triggered computing cuts cost and enables more efficient application development. Welcome to the serverless era. Find out more by reading the article below… https://www.cio.com/article/3244644/cloud-computing/serverless-the-future-of-cloud-computing.html  
Will
7 years ago

Avoiding a data disaster: could your business recover from human error?

Data.” Ask senior management at any major organization to name their most critical business asset and they’ll likely respond with that one word. As such, developing a disaster recovery strategy – both for data backup and restoration – is a central part of planning for business continuity management at any organization. It is essential that […]
Will
7 years ago

Getting Strategic with Copy Data Management

The amount of data collected and processed by businesses has grown exponentially. Adding to this increase, a recent study performed by IDC cites the average number of copies per piece of data is 13. As you can imagine, this growth of data and copy data uses up storage space and can hinder performance. In fact, […]
Will
7 years ago

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud, Part 1: Knowing the Options

The traditional approach to DR requires significant investment of time and resources. At minimum, users must consider how they would replicate their primary infrastructure to a secondary site. That secondary site needs to be procured, installed, and maintained. During normal operations, the secondary site will typically be under-utilized or over-provisioned. https://www.rubrik.com/blog/disaster-recovery-cloud-options/
Will
7 years ago

AWS Best Practices – Managing Cloud Resident Data in AWS

The DevOps team had called the CIO and were complaining that they were not getting copies of their Oracle database for testing in a timely manner.   To make matters worse, somebody mistakenly dropped a table in a MS SQL database which brought down a critical application. The DR team were relying on EBS snapshots […]
Will
7 years ago

Data On-Demand

Speak with most IT leaders about their big picture strategies and goals these days and most will describe a cloud-like delivery model in which IT outcomes are provided rapidly, efficiently, and in many cases, via self-service.   And these same leaders increasingly are looking to leverage multiple clouds to augment and/or replace existing application infrastructure.   In […]
Will
7 years ago

Enterprise Data Security: 4 Outcomes to Help Measure Success

The frequency of high-profile data security breaches has increased the urgency to improve digital security in every enterprise. The challenge confronted by all is how to effectively protect critical data in the face of persistent and ever-changing threats from malicious hackers, foreign governments, and criminal ransom schemes. Traditional security strategies have failed to perform. Now […]
Will
7 years ago

12 Ways to Disaster-Proof Your Critical Business Data

…while most IT executives and data management experts acknowledge that there isn’t one failsafe solution to protecting and recovering data, they agree that there are certain steps organizations should take.   What are the necessary precautions companies should take to protect critical files and applications in the event of disaster? Dozens of data storage, data […]
Will
7 years ago