Most disaster recovery (DR) articles focus on convincing readers that the risk of a business altering disaster is real, and as such, they should buy a set of products and services to mitigate that risk. But, if you’re reading this, I know you already understand the importance of DR, and so my focus will be ...

It’s a brave new world. Are you still using a tape backup solution with the hope that it will protect your business from data loss? If so, stop for a moment and take a look at what you’re missing… Subscribe to the Data Insider Newsletter Learn the latest news and best practices about data science, ...

Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host-level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common – they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. Like all fairy tales, our virtualization backup fairy tales are ...

A CFO is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. Secondary responsibilities are financial planning and record keeping as well as financial reporting to senior management as well as the board of directors. Given that job description, you would think that “selling backup” to a CFO would be the ...

This tongue-in-cheek white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view – exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which any company ...

The purpose of deduplication is to provide more storage, particularly backup storage, for less money, right? Then wouldn’t it be ridiculous if deduplication vendors were demanding that their customers pay more per terabyte of storage? Or, if they were simply pushing the task of integrating, monitoring, and managing deduplication back onto their users? This white ...

If you don’t swoon at the words “disaster recovery,” we don’t blame you. After all, the term sounds kind of pragmatic. No-nonsense. Mandatory. We get it, but things may just change when you start thinking of disaster recovery in terms of Jack Bauer from 24. Subscribe to the Data Insider Newsletter Learn the latest news ...

Doctor Who – television’s great traveler through space and time – might be the ultimate backup specialist. Not only does he go on adventures with his companions in the TARDIS, he can recover from just about any disaster simply by regenerating himself. While each incarnation of the Doctor is slightly—or vastly—different from the last, each ...

Unitrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition: Enterprise-Class Data Protection for Every Business. Unitrends has provided next-generation enterprise-class data protection to thousands of customers. Now with Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ we are offering a software-only solution available as a virtual appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. Use our Free Edition to protect 4 VMs for free. Instant ...