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Thoughtful backup. Secure archive. Reliable storage. The first three of our series of guides on best practices for backup with e.g. Veeam Backup & Replication are available on our website available for download . Guide #1 describes daily incremental backup,…
2021: stay vigilant for viruses! The year 2020 will go down in the history books as “the year of the coronavirus,” and that is completely understandable and justified. Yet in our industry, we also noted the emergence of other viruses,…
Why you should or should not dedupe Deduplication is the technique of eliminating duplicate data in storage. Deduplication systems are widely used in backup storage; they readily calculate reachable rates as 20:1, which is partly true, but if you assume…
Note! Ransomware attacks on the data store layer! Ransomware represents for many businesses and organizations and outright threat. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a computer and/or data. It then demands a ransom from the user to free the computer and…
Limit the restoretime! It sounds logical and it is: the less data in the backup, the faster you can restore and thus the faster you are up and running again. Separation of active and archival data We talk about it…
Why offsite backup is really necessary Backup and archive data are best protected offsite, for the simple reason that these data cannot then be unauthorized damaged by ransomware, hackers or sabotage. Of course, data can also be accidentally corrupted, by…
Many of our customers know very well that they are only actively using 10 to 30 percent at most of their data. Or counted another way: 70 to 90 percent of the data is secondary data that is almost never…
Pay money to get your data back? It sounds like a distant concept, yet more and more companies and organizations are facing this question. The answer at first will invariably be “no, of course not! After all: there is a…
Why ransomware is growing and what you can do about it Increasingly, reports of ransomware and hacker attacks on computer systems are popping up in the daily news. The victims are not minor. In December, Maastricht University was affected by…
Determine type and content of your data for proper storage Not too long ago in the news: hospitals transfer their data to a third party, which stores the data somewhere in the cloud. Point is that this is privacy-sensitive data,…
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