Why StorONE Eliminated Capacity-Based Pricing
Today we’re announcing an entirely new pricing model, and I am excited to share how this revolutionary pricing model came to be. Thanks to incredible technological advancements in storage hardware, it’s no longer a challenge to find a storage solution with the level of performance…
The ROI of Fast RAID Rebuilds
Limiting the impact on production performance, improving capacity utilization, and enabling high-density hard disk drives are just a few examples of the ROI of Fast RAID Rebuilds. RAID rebuild time is the time it takes for a storage system to return itself to a protected state after a drive failure. The time window is critical…
Four Tips to Reduce Backup Storage Costs
Here are four tips to reduce backup storage costs, which are escalating out of control for most organizations. Despite the decreasing cost of hardware capacity and performance, vendors continue to make recommendations that hide their legacy software inefficiency, due to dependency on decades-old code, while dramatically increasing the cost. Our tips go against backup vendor…
Four Steps to Maximize Backup Storage ROI
Instead of considering it a digital dumping ground, organizations should take these four steps to maximize backup storage ROI. The return on investment (ROI) of legacy backup storage is dismal. The “return” on a backup storage investment typically comes when IT needs to recover from a disaster or ransomware attack. The organization and IT are…
Is The Cloud the Best Place for Backup Data?
Even though it initially looked like nirvana, IT professionals are starting to ask, “is the cloud the best place for backup data?” While using the cloud for backup storage does enable the organization to enjoy low upfront costs, it creates many challenges, especially for the recovery process. In this week’s live webinar, “Beat the High…
How to Eliminate Backup Storage Silos
Instead of helping IT understand how they can eliminate backup storage silos, vendors are proposing additional sub-silos of storage within the backup infrastructure. The primary reason is to try to cobble together a ransomware recovery strategy. Most backup vendors are now proposing no less than four storage systems within the backup infrastructure: Backup storage with…
What is 360° Ransomware Protection?
IT professionals need to look for 360° Ransomware Protection of their backup infrastructure. Bad actors know that the backup infrastructure is critical in recovering from their ransomware attacks and avoiding paying the ransom. As a result, they target backup data and metadata to make recovery impossible or slow the process down. As we will discuss…
Ransomware’s Backdoor
As IT professionals look to shore up their defenses against ransomware, they must understand ransomware’s backdoor. Ransomware’s frontal attack is well known. A compromised system or clicking the wrong email link can deposit a ransomware trigger file. That trigger file replicates itself and, then as quickly as possible, starts encrypting production data. At that point,…
How to Reduce Data Center Footprint?
A never-ending challenge for IT professionals is how to reduce data center footprint. One of the best places to start is storage and, more specifically, backup storage. It is typically 10X of production storage capacity, which means backup storage can take 10X of the data center footprint and require 10X the power and cooling. The…
Simplifying Backup Storage Scaling
Given its never-ending growth rate, simplifying backup storage scaling is a critical requirement for IT to address. Today, backup storage is typically 5x the size of production storage. The need to recover faster, retain data longer, and repurpose backup data will increase to 10X production storage capacity. IT has to find a better way to…
A Complete Ransomware Recovery Strategy
o ransomware damage in other areas. IT needs a 360° Ransomware Recovery Strategy that protects production data backup metadata and rapidly returns the organization to an operational state.