End of Year IT Maintenance Windows and Change Management It’s that time of year again when, depending on your industry, things either get really busy or really slow. What does your company do during peak or holiday seasons related to IT maintenance? In my 20-odd...
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SSDs vs Spinning Disks – When Will SSDs Take Over?
SSDs vs Spinning Disks – with benefits in speed, reliability, and operating costs the question really should be when will SSDs take over?
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Back to Basics
What is the 3-2-1 Backup Rule and how can Global Data Vault and Veeam Backup and replication be your best ally against data loss?
The Importance of a Data Retention Policy and Scheduled Backups
A strong data retention policy and scheduled backups are important to maintain the security of data and ongoing commercial operations.
Cybersecurity Guide for Cloud Data Management
Not only must companies protect edge-facing and core-facing infrastructure technologies, they must protect all data at all times, and in all locations.
Next Level Backup Protection
Next Level Backup ProtectionPhysical and logical security are two important factors when considering backup files. Modern restore capabilities allow for entire virtual machines and systems to be brought back online from a backup very quickly, assuming that a...
Veeam Availability Suite v10 has impressive new capabilities
Veeam Availability Suite v10 has impressive new capabilitiesAfter much anticipation and a long wait, Veeam® released version 10 of the Veeam Availability Platform, which includes the Veeam Availability Suite (Veeam Backup & Replication™ and Veeam ONE.) To be...
Cloud Mobility – Buzz Words or Pain Point?
Cloud Mobility – Buzz Words or Pain Point?Do an internet search on “cloud mobility,” and you will get a TON of results. The definition(s) can be confusing, but basically it describes the ability to avoid locking in workloads to a specific cloud vendor. ...
The Air Gap Controversy
The Air Gap Controversy In a previous blog post, we talked about the 3-2-1-1 data protection concept as well as “air gaps.” We’ve also discovered that viruses can corrupt files that are written to air-gapped technologies, such as tape, rendering them useless, and the...
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery
Veeam Software is an unusual participant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant given that they entered it in the visionary section, and were the first company to do so with only a virtualization offering.