Christine Taylor

Failover to a remote location is a mature technology. So is cloud storage. But when users want to failover their virtual environments to the cloud, they can face distinct challenges. Although both processes use replication, cloud failover is much more than replicating backup to the cloud for later recovery. The failover process uses the cloud […]

“Data protection” is a big topic with many subsets. Breaking it down to the data center level comes up with three major DP domains: data loss prevention (DLP), storage system recovery, and data security. We’ll take a high-level look at major technology trends from each of these domains. 1.  Data Loss Prevention: Protect data from […]

Also see: Data Lakes Demystified And: Big Data: Ready to Fill Your Data Lake? Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible and provides peace of mind. Cobalt Iron’s enterprise-grade backup and recovery solution is known for its hands-free automation and reliability, at a […]

 “Data protection” is a big topic with many subsets. Breaking it down to the data center level generates three major DP domains: data loss prevention (DLP), storage system recovery, and data security. We’ll take a high-level look at major technology trends from each of these domains. 1. Data Loss Prevention: Protect data from getting lost […]

Backup as a Service (BaaS) provides backup and recovery operations from the cloud. The cloud-based BaaS provider maintains necessary backup equipment, applications, process and management in their data center. The customer will have some on-site installation – an appliance and backup agents are common – but there is no need to buy backup servers and […]

More and more companies are virtualizing their environments, with many achieving 90% virtualization rates and higher. Server consolidation and virtualization provides big business advantages including dynamic application environments, drastically increasing virtual servers with fractional hardware increases, and boosting application performance. However, this rosy picture has its dark underside. One of the major challenges in growing […]

Since its inception, the promise of virtualization has been that it would make everything in the Data Center easier and less expensive.   Very few people would argue that broad point, but at the same time, there are still some areas that have not seen those benefits.  One of these is data replication.  Data replication solutions […]

It’s no surprise that the enterprise data center has a storage performance problem.  Look at what the data center to contend with: raw sensor data, machine-generated data, financial transactions, big data analysis, hosted applications, R&D, mobile, social media, video, broadcasting – and that’s the short list. Hard disk drive-laden SANs still top the storage food […]

Corporations spend a lot of resources on network backup – not exactly their favorite budget item, but it must be done. However, in the recent past these same companies simply ignored mobile device backup. It’s not that these companies were blind to the security risk of unprotected data, rather that their backup choices were extremely […]