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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A few weeks ago, we wrote about some of the more nuanced issues that businesses have to consider when evaluating Recovery-as-a-Service offerings. We expanded on that post by writing a new white paper on the topic, Five Things You need to Know to Get Raas Right. You can download it here. I’ll use a few [...]
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If you haven’t already read them you can find part 1 here and part 2 here. Here is the final installment. The data protection lifecycle follows the life of a workload recovery point as it passes through protection and recovery facilities. The lifecycle is policy based, providing for flexibility in implementation and cost management across [...]
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We’re very excited about a great story about nScaled that appears here in Network World. We’re obviously pleased by the coverage that highlights what we think are unique things we offer. Here, I just want to emphasize one point made in the story by its author, Brian Musthaler. Small companies might find it sufficient to [...]
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I just finished reading a piece of marketing nonsense hoo-hah from Iron Mountain that argues that tape isn’t dead. Methinks Iron Mountain doth protest to much. Let’s see, what’s Iron Mountain’s digital business? Oh, that’s right – tape vaulting. The death of tape, and Iron Mountain’s sudden exit from cloud-based storage and backup, must be cause for [...]
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I was just speaking with Brad Wenzel, nScaled’s VP of Channels, and he said something that really struck me. He asked, do I still listen to music on cassette tapes? Of course not, I answered. All my music is digital. Tapes are prone to failure – drop-outs, unspooling, melting in the sun – and they’re linear [...]
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I just got done reading a survey report put out by Symantec on the topic of SMB disaster preparedness. It stated what I think most of already know, that something like 50% of small and midsize businesses (SMB) don’t have a disaster plan. This is a terrible state of affairs, and I applaud Symantec for [...]
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At nScaled, we talk to a lot of businesses about backup. Backup-as-a-service is one of the solutions we provide through our hybrid cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Customers have a lot to say about their current backup solutions, and not much of it is positive. We’ve tried to provide a backup solution that solves the problems that they [...]
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This is the third part in our series on Low Risk Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises. In this installment, we’ll look at how to create a cloud migration plan. Once a business has assessed its reasons for migrating to cloud infrastructure, it needs to develop a roadmap for which parts of its IT operations it [...]
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