Cloud Backup: Monitoring
Cloud Backup Series This post is one of a series regarding cloud backup. See these links for more information concerning Unitrends cloud backup along with an overview of Vault2Cloud: Unitrends...
View ArticleBackup, Santa Clara’s $600,000 Data Loss, and Causes
What is a backup worth? Well, in the case of Santa Clara Housing Authority, losing 12% of its backup records was recently called out as costing the agency $600,000. The Santa Clara Housing Authority...
View ArticleData Loss Shortcuts: Play the Odds on Disasters
[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective...
View ArticleEnterprise Online Backup and Losing a Lady Gaga MP3
Recently there was an interesting blog post over at ZDNet entitled “Where Are the Affordable Enterprise Online Backups?” I made a comment to it – to the effect that bandwidth and RTO (Recovery Time...
View Article3Par, HP, Dell, Private Clouds, and Disaster Recovery
Imagine you’ve won the lottery. The next morning you wake up and find that you won again. That’s how the investors and executives at 3Par are feeling these days. The dueling takeover offers from HP...
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The Ghosts of Backup Future: D2D2x Appliance Era
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” -William Gibson [This is my fourth and final excerpt from my The Future of Backup whitepaper. Download the full whitepaper for instant...
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Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Hurricane Irene
As fate would have it, I’m sitting here on the coast of South Carolina on Pawley’s Island – dead in the most probable path of Hurricane Irene. It got me thinking again about the difference between...
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Backup, Cloud Storage Gateways, and the AWS Storage Gateway
Sometimes I get asked about cloud storage gateway vendors and backup. Typically, this is approached in a casual kind of way – primarily because the claims that the vendors make that they can “replace...
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Cloud Storage Startups and Venture Capitalists
In my job I not only get to write a lot about business continuity, disaster recovery, replication, archiving, backup, and so on – but more importantly I get to read a lot. And I’ve got to tell you –...
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Cloud Backup, AWS, and Azure
I get asked a lot these days about cloud backup, private clouds, and public clouds (in particular, AWS and Azure.) Makes sense, right? Cloud, particularly IaaS is growing like a weed. As a brief...
View Article7+1 Reasons Unitrends 7.1 Leads in Virtual, Physical, and Cloud Data...
These are some pretty exciting times here. Unitrends has released 7.1 which continues its dominance in Unified Data Protection™ as the #1 mid-market vendor for virtual, physical, and cloud data...
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7+1 Reasons Unitrends 7.1 Leads in Virtual, Physical, and Cloud Data...
[Continuing on the previous post: 7+1 Reasons Unitrends 7.1 Leads in Virtual, Physical, and Cloud Data Protection (Part 1).] Unitrends has released 7.1 which continues its dominance in Unified Data...
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Backup, Cloud, and Something Big Is Coming
Our new web site (unbelievably good job by our marketing group leading the way to make this happen) has as of Friday started teasing something. The message is simple Something big is coming. What the...
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Backup, Cloud, and Something Big Is Coming – Redux
So the response to the last post (Backup, Cloud, and Something Big Is Coming) was pretty amazing. The problem is that comments and questions have been coming through in private messaging – so...
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Unitrends, Backup, Cloud, and Helping xSP’s/MSP’s Make Money
Unitrends announced today its first MSP (Managed Service Provider) program (note: I like the term xSP – for Any Service Provider – but since MSP is more commonly in use I tend to use them...
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Backup, Black Swans, and Google Goes Down and Kills 40% of the Internet
Most of Google’s services went down Friday (August 16, 2013) afternoon. According to one real-time analysis company (GoSquared), internet traffic dropped 40% (yes, by almost half) during the time...
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Unitrends 3.0 – Insight Venture Partners Acquires Unitrends
Unitrends is being purchased by a VC. Is this the end of Unitrends? Will Unitrends lose its customer obsessed focus (and thus I’ll have to rename this blog?) Mike Coney, the CEO of Unitrends,...
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Unitrends Five-Year Subscription Term and Pledge and Pledge Plus
Last week I posted ”No Limits Unitrends Cloud to Free Forever Infinite Hardware to New Appliances to New Features“, and after hearing from many of you, wanted to expand upon particular items...
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Unitrends Cloud DRaaS
Last week I posted ”No Limits Unitrends Cloud to Free Forever Infinite Hardware to New Appliances to New Features“, and after hearing from many of you, wanted to expand upon particular items...
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Unitrends Release 7.3 Beta Now Available
I love early releases of software – it gives us some of our best opportunities to listen to customers – not only about our current offerings, but those in the pipeline as well. We’ve now entered into...
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