As you can imagine, we are very excited to announce that we just closed a $7M Series A round of financing! We were able to raise the money on the strength of our vision and our 2011 results. nScaled was a pioneer in recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) three years ago, when no one know what the heck [...]
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Today, we’ll wrap up our look into how to protect multi-tier applications… Multi-tier Server Protection In a multi-tier server environment, the quiescent state of a single server isn’t enough. In order to achieve a working and consistent application, the various servers that make up the entire application stack may need to be in a quiescent [...]
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Our crack Services team has written a new technical solution brief about the pitfalls of doing DR for multi-tier applications. Seeing as how most apps these days are multi-tier, and those apps are usually the most critical to a business, figuring out how to backup or failover is paramount. We’ll serialize the tech brief for a [...]
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nScaled is now offering free accounts. We just rolled this out last week and we’re starting to see some good sign-ups. We hope you’ll give it a try too. What it is You get a free account in our recovery-as-a-service cloud environment, accessed through our Recovery Console SaaS admin interface. You also download, for free, [...]
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Rachel Dines is my hero! She wrote a dynamite piece on improving disaster recovery preparedness that is all about our favorite topic, Testing. Dines is an analyst at Forrester covering IT infrastructure issues like BC/DR, so she knows her stuff. In her article, she lays out 10 best practices for companies for exercising their DR plans. It’s [...]
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This is the first of three posts we’ll do on a data/workload protection & recovery model we call Three Phase Workload Recovery. Fixing the fragmented approach to Backup, Archiving, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Despite decades of research and development into backup and data protection, enterprise customers are generally unsatisfied with the status quo when [...]
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One of the big old players in backup software recently announced that they will “blur the lines between backup and archive,” by automatically aging backups to an archive. If your perspective is that of the old-school backup mindset, this probably sounds like progress. Unfortunately, this is just a baby step towards something that already exists: [...]
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If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we like to emphasize the small, “every day” disasters that are so common yet so easy to overlook, like the fried power supply or the accidentally deleted file. The ones where you don’t need to declare a disaster and failover to a remote site, [...]
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In this third and final installment, we examine the various methods of data protection, and come back to our favorite topic, testing… Methods of Data Protection This brings us to the issue of choosing data protection technologies. If you have one of the rare, homogeneous environments, this can be a straightforward matter, as simple as [...]
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Last time, we looked at the BIG difference between backup and Disaster Recovery. Today, we’ll discuss how to prioritize what to protect, and how to deal with heterogeneous environments… Prioritize Servers and Applications The same mentality that leads companies to use backup and forego DR also negatively affects the way they think about prioritizing their [...]
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