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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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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There’s an amusingly pugnacious post over at ZDNet by Ken Hess that asks why so many people seem to be paranoid about cloud computing. Hess, with tongue in cheek (I think), conjures images of survivalist loonies in describing the mistrust that some of his readers apparently exhibit towards cloud. That seem like a bit much, [...]
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I’m just getting around to writing about a terrific post by Rodrigo Flores over at GigaOm about SLAs and cloud infrastructure. Flores neatly articulates something that we have based nScaled on – the importance of the enterprise service agreement and SLAs in cloud, and the factors that make a cloud “enterprise grade.” Flores starts by [...]
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The past week and a half have brought us the trifecta of business continuity / disaster recovery (BC/DR) stories: Hurricane Irene, the San Diego blackout, and the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I’ll try not to belabor the point – stuff happens, and business need to be prepared – and instead highlight some of the more [...]
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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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There’s a fine story by Jacob Gsoedl over at SearchDisasterRecovery.com called, “Disaster recovery in the cloud explained” that makes for good reading. Gsoedl provides a good overview of matters. I would like amplify one topic that I think deserves more emphasis than Gsoedl provides – testing. As one of our customers recently put it to [...]
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There’s a good piece over at TechTarget today about disaster recovery in the cloud, a subject near and dear to our hearts at nScaled. The writer, Joseph Foran, does a great job untangling some of the confusion about traditional offsite disaster recovery and DR in the cloud. The main issue that Foran addresses is how [...]
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We recently held our latest Partner Training Program event here at nScaled headquarters in San Francisco. We’ve been signing up new channel partners in the US and UK and it was time to get them together for a couple days of in-depth training – how to sell, implement and support nScaled cloud services. We asked [...]
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