3 Considerations for Your Company’s Disaster Recovery Plan

As a followup to our previous post on choosing DR solutions I wanted to focus on cloud-based DR. Backing up data in the cloud has become a common theme for businesses who are striving to keep up with the changing times.  Cloud backup or storage, as a whole, has become technically simple and economically viable …

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Key Considerations When Choosing Disaster Recovery Systems for Hyper-Critical Facilities

Maintaining 100% uptime is critical for many businesses such as healthcare providers, financial services, aircraft or rail traffic controllers and more. Not only do such facilities generate enormous amounts of data, they need to retrieve it immediately in the event of downtime, and they also have to comply with stringent regulations that pertain to data security …

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How to Choose the Right Backup Appliance Part IV: Deciding on Offsite Backup Copies

Choosing the right backup appliance for your company is easier when you know what elements you need to have. This multi-part series on how to choose the right backup appliance is intended to help you sort out the most important details and help you make the right decision for your organization. As the conclusion to our …

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How to Choose the Right Backup Appliance Part II: The Importance of Compliance

While choosing a backup appliance for your organization, analyzing your current infrastructure and reviewing the existing backup systems in the organization come first. Once these are reviewed, you can move on to the other aspects that will help you determine the specifics of the backup system that will suit your organization’s backup as well as business …

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Key Challenges of Performing Backups from Remote Locations

Managing backups may be routine and straightforward when the entire gamut of operations takes place within a single facility. However, for national corporations and global enterprises with offices across the globe, and each office having disparate systems and procedures, deploying an integrated backup and disaster recovery system to ensure that the company’s digital assets are safe, secure …

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Hallmarks of a Robust Data Backup, Archive and Disaster Recovery System

Organizations handle different types of data, but there are some types of data that have legal validity or important information that can’t afford to be lost. The consequences of losing these documents go beyond monetary losses and can even ruin lives or disrupt the business or individuals affected. Regardless of the type and nature of …

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The Importance of Balanced Interaction Between DRPs and Their Clientele

Data recovery service providers (DRPs) are an integral constituent of any business structure today. They are responsible for the data of a business and their importance can never be understated. As a part of this relationship, the interaction between an enterprise and the DRP is an important factor to make sure the system is integrated …

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Going Beyond Automated Backups

The best backup systems are automated, sparing users of the need to divert their attention from core tasks and waste time on non-productive activities. However, a good backup and disaster recovery solution goes beyond simply having automated backups. Here are a couple of other elements you need in a backup appliance to protect, recover and …

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STORServer Offers ‘Tremendous Revenue Growth Opportunity’ For Resellers

In 1999, Rob Didlake founded Dataedge, a technology reseller focused on data storage and backup solutions for companies that depend on a well-designed infrastructure to run their business. He was pleased to find that STORServer sells its solutions exclusively through the channel and found himself immediately attracted to the company’s robust set of data protection …

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Choosing the Right Backup Appliances for Multiple Locations

While businesses of all shapes and sizes face the difficulties associated with data management and protection, the ones that have multiple locations are the ones that suffer the most if something goes wrong with a centralized system. However, the issues start before a disaster actually hits. When selecting the right backup solution for their various locations, enterprises may …

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