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Why Disaster Recovery Matters For Business Survival In The Hybrid Cloud Era

By Jay Cardin | Nov 12, 2024

Several weeks ago, I was vacationing in Florida just after Hurricane Milton made landfall and rendered millions without electricity, gasoline, phone service, or internet. These recent devastating storms are a stark reminder of the critical importance of disaster recovery (DR) in today's business landscape. An irony of modernization is that our increasing dependence on technology opens the door to more business disruption. While natural disasters have long been a primary driver for DR initiatives, the rise of ransomware attacks has exposed new vulnerabilities in our increasingly digital businesses.

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Transforming Data Center Operations: Ensuring Security And Agility In The Digital Age

By Josh Cronin | Jun 18, 2024

The digital ecosystem is booming with innovation, driven by a surge in applications and enterprise hybrid cloud adoption. From high-fidelity 10K video, real-time gaming, AI-powered automation, and IoT expansion, to immersive VR/AR experiences, businesses need agile and secure networks to support a number of cutting-edge applications. Additionally, the rise of 5G requires secure and adaptable network infrastructure.

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Three Benefits Of Veeam’s Data Protection Update To Your Cybersecurity Strategy

By Jay Cardin | Jan 30, 2024

Imagine your IT organization as a ship sailing the seas. Equipped with a sturdy hull, a reliable power source, and a skilled crew, you’re ready to handle any potential threats that appear during your ocean voyage. However, massive waves from an incoming storm unexpectedly hit, which destroys your ship and sweeps away everything onboard. Despite team’s intense preparation, your vessel and its crew are caught off guard for this specific disaster, leaving survival uncertain.

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Five Proven Use Cases For SD-WAN In The Financial Services Industry

By Victor Fabian | Jan 23, 2024

The financial services sector is dealing with new challenges as they race to digitize for a better customer experience and high-performing branch operations. Unfortunately, cyber criminals are capitalizing on the increased complexity.

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Is There A Better Way To Consume Disaster Recovery?

By Greg LaBrie | Nov 23, 2023

When recording a significant event where every moment matters, would you choose a video camera or a standard camera? A video camera, complete with expansive memory, makes frame-by-frame recording possible. In contrast, a standard camera only takes occasional photos and fails to capture the in-between moments that define an event in its entirety.

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Four Ways Veeam and ExaGrid Support Your Data Protection and Backup Strategy

By Jay Cardin | Oct 17, 2023

In the fast-moving world of data security, a resilient and dependable backup solution is an absolute necessity. For more than a decade, ExaGrid and Veeam have teamed up to offer top-notch products that communicate seamlessly together. The two have harnessed their expertise to combine their highly differentiated products into scalable and cost-effective backup solutions, thus enabling enterprises to achieve the performance and efficiency needed to realize their backup, recovery, and disaster recovery (DR) goals.

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3 Reasons To Embrace DRaaS For Your Business

By Patrick Gamble | Jul 25, 2023

Picture this: You've just been involved in a minor car accident. Thankfully, you have car insurance, and while you hoped to never use it, it sits available at a moment’s notice. In the business world, that's the essence of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS). It's like insurance for your critical data and applications: it might seem unnecessary at first, but when disaster strikes, you'll be grateful for the investment.

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The Future of Disaster Recovery: Three Reasons Enterprises Need DRaaS

By Jay Cardin | May 23, 2023

In the era of remote working cybersecurity risks, evolving IoT, increased cloud services, and revolving ransomware, businesses require reliable IT infrastructure to protect their data and ensure continuity of operations. According to Veeam's 2023 Trends In Data Protection report, 79% of IT leaders see a “Protection Gap” between tolerable data loss and how IT protects their data. Addressing this gap usually involves an upgrade of various disaster recovery services for production and protection. To tackle this concern, enterprises are better off subscribing to Disaster Recovery as-a-Service (DRaaS) rather than traditional disaster recovery solutions for cost efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

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Is Your Disaster Recovery Strategy Next Level?

By Jay Cardin | Sep 20, 2022

A recent WEI study says that 64% of IT leaders cite improved data security for their organization as their top objective over the next 12 months. And for good reason. As technology continues to evolve, it’s not a matter of if an enterprise will have a ransomware attack but when it will happen. With technological advances, it’s not just enterprises that benefit — cyber criminals do as well.

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HPE Introduces a Less Stressful Approach to Backups

By Shane Garrett | Nov 11, 2021

It seems like we never have enough time to get everything done that we need to do during our time off. Before you know it, the weekend’s over and there’s still items left on our ‘to-do’ list. That’s certainly the way it is for enterprise backups. If you’re a backup administrator, you know the routine too well. Full and incremental backups take an enormous amount of time. They also consume a lot of resources and bandwidth. Because of their negative impact on production environments, we schedule backup jobs during off-peak hours. The problem is that window just never seems to be quite long enough and with burgeoning data repositories and an expanding application portfolio, that window seems to only get smaller. Face it, scheduling backups in the hope they complete in time without interfering with one another is stressful. Administrators can only hope the last backup job completes before users begin to trickle in Monday morning. If not, users will be competing with those same backup jobs for network bandwidth and server utilization resources and the help desk phones begin to ring.

Solution Brief - Backup and Disaster Recovery

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