Recent Blog Posts

Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages of mainstream newspapers, not just in the IT press, I took part in a number of webcasts on the topic. The ...

How much attention do you pay to the pros and cons of software and service bundling? I was reminded of the topic on a recent briefing call with Dave Russell, Veeam’s VP of enterprise strategy, ...

People 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 ...

This 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 ...

Veeam 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 ...

I 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 ...

The 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 ...

A 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 ...

There 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 ...

Veritas 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 ...

Barracuda 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 ...

Backup 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 ...