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StorMSP: Storage-as-a-Service Offering Now Available
Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations, powering critical processes, insights, and decision-making. As businesses rely more on data, robust backup and disaster recovery solutions are paramount.
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…
A Cure for Ransomware Overload
The recent Log4j vulnerability is triggering a whole new round of “Get Ready for Ransomware” webinars and blogs, to the point that IT needs a cure for ransomware overload. While being ready for ransomware is critical, focusing on it exclusively is as dangerous as ignoring it. IT professionals will need to recover from ransomware at…
How to Recover From Log4Shell Exploits
While many articles explain how to fix the Log4j zero-day flaw, very few guide you through the process of recovering from a Log4Shell exploit if it is successful. If a bad actor can exploit this vulnerability, they can extract sensitive data, upload files to the server (like malware), jump to other servers, and delete data…
The Viability of All-Flash Backup
To address backup storage shortcomings, vendors are trying to convince IT of the viability of All-Flash Backup. All-flash does help organizations improve their recovery point objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) but is the cost of the improvement worth it? As our CEO mentioned in a recent blog, the first responsibility for the backup…
Join the Storage Revolution
Today, StorONE announces rapid expansion of our Go-to-Market team. We spent the first eight years rewriting and optimizing storage algorithms that allow the StorONE Enterprise Storage Platform to deliver the highest performance while using less hardware. The result is the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). The next generation of storage vendors will deliver both…
Can NAS Be Backup Storage?
With the continual improvement of data management features within backup-server software, many customers are wondering “Can NAS be Backup Storage?” Most IT professionals consider network attach storage (NAS) to be easier to manage. NAS pricing, thanks to the rampant use of legacy open-source file systems, makes their use very affordable. However, using NAS as backup…
