By Matthew Brady, Daymark Consultant
With so many pieces of modern business moving to the cloud, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Backup has quickly found its way to the top of the list of processes, and perhaps headaches, that are driving companies to the cloud. The advantages are vast. Data is backed up offsite. Backups are managed and monitored which frees up IT staff to focus on other tasks. And backup services can be coupled with DR services. It makes sense.
By Kushal Patel, Senior Consultant & Network Practice Lead
We see replication challenges within many of our clients’ environments. When RPOs are not met, the worry (and sometimes near panic) set in. While buying more bandwidth may seem like the only logical solution, it’s not cheap. So before we make that recommendation, we evaluate the situation to see if WAN optimization may be a better way to go.
By Bruce Hall, Director of Managed Services and Senior Consultant
Cloud backup (BaaS) and disaster recovery (DRaaS) seems to be “top of mind” for many organizations these days. Businesses are seeing the cloud as a cost-effective data protection alternative providing secure, off-site storage with built-in disaster recovery and business continuity. Cloud backup can be a good option to protect remote and branch offices, mobile devices as well as enterprise data that resides within the data center. Done right - it can offload IT staff from tedious (and error-prone) backup tasks, reduce costs and, most importantly, ensure fast, complete and accurate restores when needed.
By Ned Fairweather, Senior Consultant/Data Protection Practice Lead
Whether you’re already using Symantec NetBackup or you’re considering it as a backup solution, we think NetBackup 7.5 is worth a close look. Daymark has deployed NetBackup 7.5 in several customer environments. Our technical consultants have found the product to be stable with dramatically increased backup speeds, but that’s not all. Here are 7 feature enhancements we think are worth checking out:
By Rich Savastano, Senior Account Executive
By Ned Fairweather, Senior Consultant
Author: Kushal Patel, Senior Consultant
Author: Sean Gilbride, Director of Professional Services Operations
You had to be living ‘off-grid’ this week if you didn’t hear about the widespread problems that resulted from the millions of consumers trying to download Apple’s new iCloud sharing and data protection service… come on you know you contributed to that problem, I know I was.
