OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Backup and disaster recovery are critical elements in the drive to thwart ransomware. Backup is the final layer of data protection. All too often, however, organizations mount what they think are effective backup systems only to find them inadequate in a real emergency. Want to learn more about backup and ransomware?

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are two important concepts used in disaster recovery planning. RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Cost: Backups cost money. RPO: What’s the Difference?

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are two important concepts used in disaster recovery planning. RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Cost: Backups cost money. RPO: What’s the Difference?

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Pure Storage FlashBlade//E Certified with Commvault by Pure Storage Blog We are pleased to report that Pure Storage®, a leader in all-flash storage platforms, and Commvault, a leader in data protection solutions, have certified the new FlashBlade//E ™ platform with Commvault software.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Legacy data protection solutions found in the market today were designed with yesteryear’s technology and are focused largely on backups versus recovery. Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. Similarly, Cohesity’s DataLock is a time-bound, WORM lock on the immutable backup snapshot to prevent expiration or deletion.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 25, 2023

10 Ways to Improve Data Management with Automation by Pure Storage Blog “That’s why they call it work, Son.” Data Backup and Recovery Data backup and recovery is an essential aspect of managing data. Automated backup processes can eliminate the need for manual intervention and reduce the risk of human error.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. Readiness starts with an effective disaster recovery plan that incorporates backup systems, data replication, and testing procedures to ensure that the plan will work in practice.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. Readiness starts with an effective disaster recovery plan that incorporates backup systems, data replication, and testing procedures to ensure that the plan will work in practice.

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Online Computers

MARCH 30, 2022

In this blog post, we will discuss some of the most common causes of server downtime and how you can prevent them from affecting business productivity. Network outages. In a network outage, the server can't communicate with other computers, causing work to grind to a halt. Third-party or cloud vendor outages.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage. Even the largest public clouds experience outages as seen in recent news events. Your Data is Your Responsibility.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 24, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog When you design a distributed system or enterprise server, you need storage to preserve data. Journaling is a form of metadata written to memory when a file changes in case of drive crashes or power outages. XFS also has integrated backup and recovery, while ext4 does not.

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OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The cloud has a lot going for it as a backup and disaster recovery (DR) target. In fact, some in the backup community say that storing backups in the cloud, alone, is enough to meet the 3-2-1 rule (three copies of the data in two different media with one offsite). The use of cloud services in backup is growing.

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OffsiteDataSync

MAY 18, 2022

Companies are rapidly moving to SaaS, but they often wrongly think their software vendor is responsible for data backup, and that leaves many organizations unprotected. Nathan Anderson, CTO of Jungle Disk, discusses why IT needs a backup strategy for SaaS data. Outages with major SaaS providers do happen. You Got a Problem?

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Outage Backup Authentication Vulnerability 52

Pure Storage

AUGUST 17, 2021

Data center outages come in many forms and often occur at the most unfortunate of times. The advantages of flash in backup and recovery. How to implement a hybrid-cloud backup solution. The old ways of doing backup and recovery are simply not up to today’s challenging environments. Download the Guide.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you’ve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, there’s one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a staged recovery environment (SRE). C-level executives are less concerned with the backup environment and whether or not you have an “air gap” or other controls. It’s all about speed. If no, why not, and when will it be?”.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” Deploying a clean energy infrastructure to build in another layer of resilience from increasing energy costs and outages.

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Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

In part 2 of our three-part cloud data security blog series, we discussed the issue of complexity. A great way to make sure it’s protected no matter what happens is through solutions like Pure Storage ® SafeMode ™, a high-performance data protection solution built into FlashArray™ that provides secure backup of all data.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput , we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A detailed discussion of Zero Trust is outside scope of the blog, but here’s an introduction pitched to the needs of BC practitioners. So what happens when, during an outage, employees start attempting to use backup devices, such as their home computers, to access the network? Traditional network security is perimeter-based.

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Security Architecture Outage Alert 52

Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage. Even the largest public clouds experience outages as seen in recent news events. Your Data is Your Responsibility.

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Disaster Recovery Outage Backup Application 52

Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

With many organisations delivering customer-facing applications, any outage can have a significant impact on service availability, revenue, and customer satisfaction. Database restores and recoveries using RMAN backups, file system copies, or database exports are slow compared to the use of storage snapshots. Data Loss and Corruption.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

This blog post shows how to architect for disaster recovery (DR) , which is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. For most examples in this blog post, we use a multi-Region approach to demonstrate DR strategies. If data needs to be restored from backup, this can increase the recovery point (and data loss).

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Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Backup 101

Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Zerto’s new capabilities make an even stronger case for the next Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant. ZERTO BACKUP FOR SAAS POWERED BY KEEPIT. Built in the cloud and for the cloud, Zerto Backup for SaaS has been purpose-built for simplicity, powerful scalability, and security by design.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

In part two of this series, we introduced a DR concept that utilizes managed services through a backup and restore strategy with multiple Regions. During an outage in the primary Region, Velero restores volumes from the latest snapshots in the standby cluster. The post also introduces a multi-site active/passive approach.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 14, 2023

Winner for APJ by Pure Storage Blog From the family-friendly Qashqai SUV to the all-electric Leaf compact, Nissan Australia has a mobility solution for every Australian. The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this blog, we delve into international SMS best practices and the critical factors that can make or break your SMS notifications game so that you know how to optimally configure your notifications to never miss a page from PagerDuty. A2P SMS often faces disruptions due to network outages or planned maintenance, affecting message delivery.

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Backup Outage Banking Alert 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. In the simplest case, we’ve deployed an application in a primary Region and a backup Region. In this blog, you learned about reducing dependencies in your DR plan.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 13, 2022

Knowing that you have a backup in place provides peace of mind that you can keep your business moving forward. But having to wait hours, days, or—let’s face it—weeks in some cases for a backup to restore can cause significant pain to the operation of the business. So how fast is the FlashArray//C and NetBackup solution?

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Zerto’s new capabilities make an even stronger case for the next Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant. ZERTO BACKUP FOR SAAS POWERED BY KEEPIT . Built in the cloud and for the cloud, Zerto Backup for SaaS has been purpose-built for simplicity, powerful scalability, and security by design.

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Backup Outage Application Management 52

NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Online Computers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Secure your backups. This involves creating backups of any software or applications you use, as well as any website files. If you use a content management system such as WordPress, make sure you create a backup of your database as well. Related reading : Best practices for backup management. Regularly test your plan.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

But even internally, an outage can be disastrous. If you don’t pay up, it will be up to you to get systems back online and recover data from whatever backup and restore solutions you have. In some cases, without the right backup and recovery solution, this process can cost more than paying the ransom.

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OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 17, 2022

According to the 2022 Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends Report , 76% of organizations were attacked by ransomware in 2021, more than half (51%) suffered ransomware-related outages and more than a third of data (36%) was unrecoverable after a successful attack. Strong Backup and Disaster Recovery Plans Are Essential.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. This means having the right technology and response plans in place to minimize data loss and downtime from any type of event—cyberattack, natural disaster, or otherwise.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 2, 2022

Asynchronous replication, on the other hand, is mainly used for data backups. . If there’s an accident or outage, then transactions and data that aren’t replicated at the time of the incident will be lost, and data in secondary storage may not always be current. Asynchronous Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages.

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