Data is the lifeblood of every organization, including privacy information, intellectual property, financial documents, and regulatory/compliance evidence. Cyber threats and vulnerabilities continue to increase in scope and complexity, while the financial and operational impacts of unplanned downtime due to data loss, theft, or unauthorized manipulation, continue to expand.
If you were hit with a ransomware attack right now, your first instinct would be to strive to survive it. I believe businesses should aim higher: they should strive to thrive during a ransomware attack.
We encourage enterprises to look at their storage investments in terms of the business returns they can expect on that investment. If your storage strategy isn’t focused on creating more value from your data, it’s not really helping your business.
Do you want to know what the biggest problem is with data centers? Data. You need to process it, optimize it, store it, secure it, back it up and occasionally restore it.
This blog begins with an honest disclaimer: there is no such thing as a shrink-wrapped Cloud. But there are pre-integrated solutions on the market today that can dramatically reduce the cost, risk, and time associated with deploying a Cloud solution in your network.
Offsite backup is a key component to any company’s D/R strategy. Most companies contract the services of a media storage and retrieval company or have a second D/R location where they replicate their backups to.
Every IT director has seen the statistics about data loss and disaster recovery. In a nutshell, lose access to critical data and apps for too long, and you’re at high risk of losing your business soon after.