DRaaS Blog
The stories and discussions presented in our DRaaS Blog are intended to offer insights as well as stimulate valuable conversation on Disaster Recovery as a Service, backup, replication and systems and data protection generally. While Global Data Vault specializes in this area exclusively, content is also presented here covering business continuity and similar closely related areas. Please let us know your thoughts and ideas.
Cry Me a River…Really?
Yep. That's one headline I saw this weekend about the WannaCry attack. And I guess we can understand that sentiment, maybe. Our view at Global Data Vault, is our job is to be ready to help any of our customers hit by this outrageous attack. Our customers use our...
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Bandwidth – How Much is Enough?
How Much Bandwidth is Enough? Knowing and planning for an appropriate level of bandwidth is a key component of every DRaaS solution. In our most common DRaaS implementation, the data is moved from local repositories at the customer site over the internet or WAN to our...
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Sizing for Local Backup Repositories
Proper sizing for local backup repositories is a critical step in building a complete backup and disaster recovery as a service solution (DRaaS). Below, we will list the most accurate way of determining what your data change rate is and how large the repository should...
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Network System Failure Cost Southwest Airlines $82M
How Southwest Airlines Could Have Avoided An $82M Disaster Network system failure is no fun for any business, but it can be especially painful for major airlines. The outage that hit Southwest Airlines on July 20 is a case in point. The disaster caused the cancelation...
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Trends in Data Density
Advances in Data Density A recent article in the Economist, Atoms and the voids, tells of a data storage breakthrough where individual chlorine atoms were arranged on a sheet of copper to form the code of zeros and ones used in typical binary storage. While the...
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What is Cloud Disaster Recovery (CDR)?
What is Cloud Disaster Recovery? Your server goes down. Your network won’t work. Or worse…your office suffers a fire, flood, or other natural or man-made catastrophe. Whatever the case, you need to have a disaster recovery plan ready to protect your data as well as...
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What is VMware
VMware brought server virtualization to the IT market mainstream but what is VMware? It is a virtualization and cloud computing software that changes the way we run server workloads by distributing the work of a given virtual server across multiple physical hosts. It...
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What is Veeam Backup
Backup and recovery solutions are vital to your organization, but backup solutions that used to work effectively may no longer do the trick in today’s ever-changing computing landscape, especially if your firm relies heavily on virtualization. Veeam backup offers...
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Veeam Lunch and Learn
The Veeam Lunch N Learn in Alpharetta was a great event to introduce the inside sales teams to Global Data Vault and our unique culture of quality. Here are a few photos from our fun day playing "The Vice is Right": ...
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