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Data protection, backup and archiving
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Will we lose our treasured memories to cloud policies?
Managing Editor 12 Nov 2020People who use the free Google Drive service for personal use to store, share and collaborate on documents, will be aware that the company has been slowly shifting consumers to pay for cloud ...
Data Matters
British businesses need to be prepared for post-Brexit changes to our data protection laws
Business Applications Editor 28 Oct 2020This is a guest blogpost by Ben Tomlinson, Personally Identifiable Information Security Officer and Marketing Manager at Atlas Cloud. Data is arguably now the most valuable resource on earth; the ...
Eyes on APAC
Veeam readies Availability Suite V10, offers universal licensing
TechTarget 18 Feb 2020Veeam has taken the wraps off the latest iteration of its software to speed up backup and recovery, along with other features to help enterprises better manage their data in a hybrid cloud ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Why settle for just one RTO and one RPO?
Freeform Dynamics 03 Feb 2020I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps even very important. So how come some still find it a daunting challenge to progress from that acknowledgement into tangible ...
Commvault’s $225 million purchase of software-defined storage maker Hedvig looks like a rational move given the way the backup market is changing. But it also looks like a massive and potentially ...
StorageBuzz
Tape’s got a future but are use cases narrowing in the age of analytics?
Storage Editor 24 Sep 2018The headline grabbers in storage are usually the quick – flash, NVMe etc – or the harbingers of the next generation, such as the cloud. But in some ways these are the extremes, the outliers. In ...
Had a great couple of online sessions recently with Joe Merces of the splendidly named CloudDaddy. The aim of CloudDaddy is to simplify one of the great pain points of IT (no, not repairing ...
StorageBuzz
Microsoft revives MAID with Pelican, but tape can still sleep easy
Storage Editor 18 Apr 2018A decade ago storage journalists were quite keen on a new technology around at the time. That was MAID – Massive Array of Idle Disks – which were basically disk-based backup target devices with ...
When some employees at FCM Travel Solutions lost their laptops over the past year, they were able to get their data back within half an hour. “People were really happy with the kind of support they ...
StorageBuzz
Backup gets cloudier, edges closer to on-prem/cloud interchangeability
Storage Editor 12 Oct 2017There was a time not too long ago when backup software pretty much only handled one scenario, ie backing up physical servers. Then came virtualisation. And for quite some time the long-standing ...
StorageBuzz
Veritas reinvents itself, adding intelligence to data protection
Storage Editor 04 Oct 2017Veritas dates back to the early 1980s but disappeared for 10 years to become part of Symantec, with its NetBackup and Backup Exec leading the way in the data protection market. But, in 2014 Veritas ...
StorageBuzz
Barracuda to adapt cloud orchestration to cloud disaster recovery
Storage Editor 19 Sep 2017Barracuda makes physical and virtual backup and archive appliances and has embraced the cloud as a target, as well as cloud-to-cloud backup and archiving for services such as Office 365. But it is ...
StorageBuzz
Rubrik plans backup and archive analytics on-prem and in cloud
Storage Editor 11 Sep 2017Backup appliance maker Rubrik plans to add analytics to its products, including in the cloud. Talking to ComputerWeekly.com this week CEO Bipul Sinha would not give details, but did say the company ...
Information management company Veritas continues its drive to finesse the data backup universe and platform it is building to serve IT engineers, administrators, software teams and ...
Information management company Veritas used the second day of its Vision 2016 user, partner and customer event to dig down a little deeper into the data universe and talk about how and why 'all ...
Information management company Veritas holds its Veritas Vision 2016 conference (hashtag #vtasvision) on September 12-14, 2016 at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas... so what can we expect? ...
LTFS – the Linear Tape File System – seemed like a great idea when it emerged but not many storage vendors seem to have made much of it. It puts a file system on top of a tape library and turns it ...
Veeam made its name on its backup product for virtual servers, but now it plans to allow customers to backup physical servers too. It has long resisted this move, which isn't too surprising as it ...