Data Management

Finding Value in Business Outcomes

Michael Crest — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:33:00 GMT

The cloud file-sharing service Dropbox is immensely popular among consumer and enterprise users – and not because it’s free. Despite its insecurities, Dropbox is a favorite among 200 million users because it does what it advertises, and it does it well. It’s simple, drag-and-drop functionality makes moving files between users and devices a snap. And, in some regards, it provides data protection...

Thinking About Much More than Backup on World Backup Day

Bennett Klein — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:25:00 GMT

While we are all preparing for World Backup Day on March 31, I’d like to suggest we need to do far more than just back up. We’re coming off a tumultuous season where Sandy took out the Northeast in just a few days and blizzard snow conditions repeatedly disrupted the Midwest and New England. Now we’re heading into hurricane and tornado season in the South and West, and we always face the...

Why Complicate Things More?

Greg LaMonica — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:47:00 GMT

Over the past few years, we have seen virtualization use cases expand from the edge of the network infrastructure, mostly in development and Q/A circles, to being front and center as a critical business tool providing consolidation of resources and significant cost savings. (A recent 2013 report by JP Morgan estimated that upwards of 60% of all x86 workloads are now virtualized.) When new...

Rethinking Backup in a Multifaceted World

Michael Crest — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:49:00 GMT

It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when backup was essentially a one-to-one exercise. In smaller shops, an administrator would plug a tape into the reader and the server data would get copied – usually overnight. In large data centers, servers and endpoints would back up to tape libraries with essentially the same architecture, just with far more automation and efficiency. Today’s IT...

Eliminating the Data Protection Headaches

Greg LaMonica — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:56:00 GMT

Building on my last post, now that you know what you need to protect, you can start the discovery process and determine how to move forward. Of course, you could offload your data protection requirements to a Managed Service Provider (MSP), an increasingly popular option today, but it is still your responsibility to ensure you are making the right data protection solution or service choice....