How Happy are DRaaS Users? Cloud computing has come of age. A decade ago the cloud, and all the services they provided were looked at as “experimental”. There was hope but companies were reluctant to risk essential corporate assets to it at that time. …
Spoiler Alert – The same reasons so many have chosen to use it In June Unitrends conducted our fifth annual survey about how organizations are conducting their data backup and recovery programs. We received over 400 responses to our survey from compani…
Happy Sys Admin Day! Here is one that’s particularly Thankful! Friday July 26 is the last Friday of July making it System Administrator Appreciation Day 2019. On the website sysadminday.com (yes – there really is one) IT System Administrators are…
Compliance is becoming a larger challenge for US enterprises, particularly their IT departments. Mandates are demanding the correct handling of data, and therefore have a major voice in how data backups, storage, and disaster recovery tasks are perform…
Ransomware Has Evolved! Cyber criminals remain a major threat to enterprises around the world. Osiris, Wannacry, Leakerlocker, and NotPetya have become infamous household names for IT. The city of Atlanta, Boeing, and the UK National Health Service, to…
Every year Unitrends surveys IT professionals about the challenges they face in protecting their data and business-critical applications. Unitrends 2018 annual survey culminated with over 800 respondents from companies of all sizes. IT professionals we…
DRaaS is corporate IT insurance. It protects against the most severe forms of disaster such as the total wipe out of a data center due to floods, fire, electrical failures, hurricane or any number of employee-caused events, accidental or malicious. DRa…
IT’s attitude about the cloud has changed greatly in a short period of time. I started writing about cloud computing back in 2010 when I became a Senior Industry Analyst for the Aberdeen Group in Boston. Cloud computing was just beginning and most IT p…