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- Backup as a Service: The On-Ramp to Cloud Services
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In a recently published white paper by IDC, Program Vice President, Laura DuBois outlines and reviews the challenges IT departments are having with meeting the data backup SLAs required by the business. Laura discusses how cloud services can fundamentally change the cost model around backup and how enterprises are leveraging these new backup-as-a-service (BaaS) offerings ... Continue Reading » - How to Ensure Data Protection As You Move to the Cloud
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According to Mark Prahl, a high-tech business professional who has been talking or writing about products and gadgets for business or personal consumption for some time, data protection needs are more acute for as-a-service cloud models and require new approaches. What can you do to ensure data protection as you move to the cloud? Prahl explains ... Continue Reading » - Cloud vs. Evil
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My blog last month entitled Cloud Control to Major Tom talked about the top five reasons enterprise don’t leverage cloud technology. I focused on one specific reason pertaining to loss of control and visibility as being one of the top five. This week I’d like to focus on another bullet on that top 5 list: ... Continue Reading » - Cloud Control to Major Tom
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For any enterprise to consider the outsourcing of IT operations to the cloud, the organizational and operational benefits have to be financially vetted. Handing over long-standing IT business practices can cause angst and concern all the way up the IT food chain. Some of the most cited reasons that organizations shy away from public cloud adoption include: ... Continue Reading » - Help, I Need Somebody… to Manage My Backups
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Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody, Help, you know I need someone, help. When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way. But now these days are gone, I’m not so self assured, Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors…. ... Continue Reading » - Backup as a Service: Fire-fighting of the Past, Present, and Future (Part 2 of 2)
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After reading part 1 of this blog series, I’m sure you’re all dying to know what does the future of fire-fighting, and thus backup and recovery look like? From a Backup and Recovery perspective, it means consolidated, optimized storage architecture, self-service, policy based backup, and federated control and centralized visibility of all backups. This naturally ... Continue Reading » - Backup as a Service: Fire-fighting of the Past, Present, and Future (Part 1 of 2)
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Last weekend a fire broke out in my Boston apartment building (left). Of course it was the middle of the night. And of course it was cold and rainy outside when we had to evacuate. When the alarm went off at 3AM, I contemplated shoving a pillow over my head to drown out the noise ... Continue Reading » - I Got Sunshine On A Cloudy Day
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Sunshine on a cloudy day How appropriate a title this is for my blog! I planned to work at home today to focus on writing this blog about backup to the cloud. As I look out my window, I see a sky full of clouds, yet sunshine reflects down onto the start of the colorful ... Continue Reading »
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The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part I
 Evolving data protection technology and expanding requirements have completely transformed the backup industry. Unfortunately, with such rapid change, many organizations have fallen into the chaos of an accidental architecture.
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