Backup & Recovery/Business Continuity Featured Editorial

51. Disaster Recovery Planning: Insuring Success For You And Your Customers 4/9/2020

    Insufficient disaster recovery (DR) planning is all too common. According to a recent report from IDC, almost half of all businesses likely couldn’t recover from a disaster, thanks to “inadequate DR planning and implementation.” That statistic doesn’t sit well with the actuaries at an insurance carrier.

52. 7 Ways To Encourage Clients To Add A Backup Solution 3/19/2020

    Resilience is vital when it comes to disaster recovery. However, many small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) find themselves ill equipped to bounce back from catastrophic setbacks. FEMA found that “40 percent of small businesses never reopen after a disaster.” What’s more, the Ponemon Institute’s State of Cybersecurity in Small & Medium-Sized Businesses report predicts that 55 percent of SMBs will become the victims of cyberattacks this year.

53. Optimizing Backup Failure Remediation 2/27/2020

    Fighting backup failure fires has historically been part of every backup administrator’s life. It’s stressful, it’s time intensive, and, ironically, doesn’t always focus attention on the most important issue: protecting valuable data.

54. Managing Backup In The Multi-Cloud World 2/27/2020

    The organizational benefits of using both AWS and Azure —speed, flexibility, no single-vendor reliance, selecting the best-of-breed capabilities, data sovereignty, redundancy—are all apparent. Yet organizations leveraging AWS and Azure in their data protection operations have new challenges: there is no way to know if all instances are protected and no monitoring or reporting tools for public cloud let alone multi-cloud.

55. Automating Backup: Opportunities & Best Practices 1/29/2020

    You already know that backing up your organization’s data isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s a need-to-have. The external threats alone warrant this. You could be one of the 50% of all organizations operating a data center that can’t withstand, or is unable to operate after, a natural disaster. Or, you could be one of the 39% of global organizations that experienced a ransomware attack in recent months.

56. Saving Six Hours Per Day With Backup Automation 1/29/2020

    HCL is a global technology company with deep expertise and business in a number of industries globally, including rich business offerings in financial services. During one client engagement, the HCL Technologies backup and storage team was assigned to a national bank’s backup environment, performing daily backup performance reviews to isolate failures. The team also was responsible for generating a monthly report to demonstrate adherence to their 99% backup success SLA goal.

57. Backup As A Service (BaaS) Billing Models 12/18/2019

    As the go-to backup monitoring and reporting automation tool for enterprise MSP backup as a service (BaaS) teams, we’re on the frontlines of seeing how MSPs struggle to create streamlined billing when faced with very different backup hardware and software that each approach reporting differently. This is further compounded by the challenge of developing billing models that actually reflect their service and delivery costs.

58. MSP Backup Reporting Automation Optimization 12/18/2019

    Helping customers navigate complex backup environments while reducing their costs gives you a chance to offer real customer value. By offering proactive and automated backup reporting for operations, management oversight and audits, MSPs can elevate their standing in the eyes of enterprise organizations. Data stays safe, sound and compliant. You delight, retain, and grow major accounts.

59. Why A Backup And Recovery Strategy Is NOT Optional 11/29/2019

    It’s a scenario we see far too often: all of a company’s data is stored and managed on a single server. It’s protected by a backup server, sure, but even that is kept on the same domain as everything else. One day, the domain is hit by ransomware that not only shuts down the servers, but also corrupts backup data. So, what then?

60. How's That Backup Working For You? 11/18/2019

    It can happen in an instant for any number of reasons, ransomware, theft, hardware failure, even a natural disaster, and poof—your data and access to it is gone.