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When to Use Encryption, Replication, or Immutability
Given the importance of an organization’s data, IT must understand when to use encryption, replication, or immutability as part of an overall data resiliency plan. If it is lost because of a disaster, stolen by a rogue employee, or locked up by ransomware, the financial…
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.
Response Time vs. Return to Operations
Standby storage solves the response time vs. return to operations problem many organizations face during a severe outage. Most production storage systems will have 24x7x4 support contracts associated with them. The problem is that these contracts only guarantee a response time, not “return to operations” time. In other words, the vendor is there quickly to…
Does Immutability Beat Ransomware
While many backup storage vendors now count on it almost exclusively, does immutability beat ransomware? The short answer is no. Making backup data immutable is not enough to beat ransomware. It is an important level of defense, but it is just one level of many required defenses. Beating ransomware requires: 1. Immutability of the entire…
Ransomware-proof Your Backups
The recent attack on Kronos proves that organizations need to ransomware-proof their backups. Kronos is a Human Resources and Workforce automation software provider. The company admits to becoming aware of a cyber-attack on December 11th and, as of January 12th, is not yet claiming complete restoration of their customer’s data. While there are few details of the…