Sophos Cloud Optix now available on AWS Marketplace
Your biggest threat to security in the public cloud may not be what you expected…
Should You Fear a Failed Recovery?
This is not an esoteric question. Market research about the disappointing state of backup and data protection shows that recovery failures occur all the time. Anecdotal evidence also points to recovery failures across enterprises of all sizes and indus…
Google Cloud Summit: Seattle in Review
I began the trip to the Google Cloud Summit in Seattle with a summit of my own — enjoying a jam-packed weekend in Olympic National Park northwest of the city. My camping trip was packed into my carry-on bags — the only item I needed to rent was a bear canister with a lock (locks […]
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The “Me-first” Component of Pure Storage’s Cloud Block Store
Pure Storage’s most notable announcement at its 2019 Accelerate conference concerns its new Cloud Block Store offering. On the surface, this may look like a “me-too” offering. It is anything but. Rather, it represents a “me-first” moment for Pure Stora…
Demystifying Recovery Failures: Identifying Dependencies in Software & Backups
Unitrends has been focusing on backup and cloud disaster recovery for 30 years. In that time one thing hasn’t changed. New customers still come to us looking for a backup and cloud DR solution that gives them confidence that recoveries will happen. We …
Recovery as Part of DRaaS – Read the Fine Print
DRaaS (disaster-recovery-as-a-service) in the cloud continues to gain traction among organizations as an idea whose time has come. Adopting this technique, organizations can recover their data in the cloud should a disaster of any magnitude occurs. Ho…
Kubernetes the Centerpiece of VMware’s Vision
Everyone attending VMworld last week no doubt saw the slogan “Make Your Mark” predominantly displayed everywhere. Whether it was in the Moscone Center, the San Francisco airport or the highways and byways leading to downtown San Francisco, VMware sough…
How to Use Cloud Backup Data for Analytics in Google Cloud Platform
Most organizations hope that they never have to access or restore their backup data in the cloud. Hence they view cheap cloud storage as the graveyard…where backup data goes to die. So how do you turn a backup graveyard into an analytics playground? What if you could “reuse” the backup data in the cloud for […]
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Evaluating Cloud Backup & DR Solutions – A Checklist for Cloud Architects
IDC research paper says that 90% of organizations are planning to utilize the cloud for backup and DR. In my customer conversations, cloud backup and DR use case comes up 100% of the time. They want to protect their on-premises workloads to a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, for the reasons below: […]
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Cloud Adoption Shifts Power to the Developer
Over the last decade, power in enterprise IT has shifted away from infrastructure specialists such as storage administrators and network administrators to virtualization administrators and even application owners. The current wave of enterprise cloud a…