Recovery as a Service
How to Protect Your Business from Ransomware Attacks
How to Protect Your Business from Ransomware AttacksCybercriminals are having a field day targeting business and government IT infrastructures. You can no longer assume that these criminals only go after weak or poorly secured targets because that is simply no longer...
The importance of maintaining databases
If you’re in business, then its likely you’ve got a database such as Exchange, SharePoint and SQL, and all the responsibility (and headaches) that go along with owning one. Without properly maintaining databases, in time, your applications dependent on them will slow...
Adding an Air Gap to the 3-2-1 Backup Rule
It’s not a matter of IF your business will succumb to hackers, a natural disaster, employee theft or other mismanagement of data. It’s a matter of WHEN. Naturally, it’s become common practice to keep safe backups of anything business essential, but how companies keep those backups varies considerably.
NEW Backup for Microsoft Office 365
Office 365 Backup Whether you have completely migrated to Office 365, or have a hybrid Exchange and Office 365 deployment, your business objectives remain the same. You must remain in control of your data and you need Office 365 backup and recovery at your fingertips....
The Silent Cyber War
This is a reprint with permission from author John Humphrey, Principal X42 Ventures LLC. The Silent Cyber War Has Begun Overview The silent cyber war has begun. Instead of battle lines being drawn in faraway lands, a silent war is being waged in cyber space every day....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...