Category Archives: Data Backup

A Practical D2D2D DR Plan for Real Life Disasters

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Recent news tells us that disasters can happen anywhere at any time to anyone. So as more companies adopt disk as their primary backup target, they need to ensure they can do disaster … Continue reading

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Cloud Providers Do Not Deserve the High Opinions that Some Users Have Unwittingly Granted Them

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com The recent outage at Amazon Web Services coupled with the news that Iron Mountain is exiting some of its storage cloud lines of business has created quite a stir in the storage industry. … Continue reading

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Why Disk Has Forever Replaced Tape as a Primary Backup Target

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Right here, right now, it’s time to state what may sound preposterous to some and obvious to others. Disk has officially forever replaced tape as the primary target for backup software. But the … Continue reading

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High Capacity HDDs Create Growing Need for Centralizing the Backup of Desktop and Laptop Data

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com It is almost universally recognized that protecting and recovering applications and application data that reside on Linux, UNIX, VMware or Microsoft Windows servers is a necessity no matter what the cost. Yet most … Continue reading

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How SMEs Can Achieve a “Hotter” Warm Recovery at a Very Cool Price

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com “Hot” or “cold” was a decision that every small and midsize enterprise (SME) faced when it came to determining how to best recover their applications in the event of a disaster. So, while … Continue reading

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Ease of Use and Licensing Costs Trump Other Backup Software Features in the Minds of Many SMEs

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Talk all you want about the different features and functions found in backup software. If an IT administrator in a small and midsize enterprise (SME) thinks about backup at all it is in … Continue reading

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It’s Not About Backups!

The title of this entry may seem like a bad thing to hear from a backup company, but it is true.  Everyone knows about the importance of backups and backup solutions.  Don’t get me wrong, they are important, but they … Continue reading

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Two Important Questions to Answer about your Backup Solution

In today’s world, IT managers are being forced to backup more and more business critical data. Often times, using the same outdated equipment. Think about it, if you are still using tape as your backup solution your data has probably … Continue reading

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Backup Schedules versus CDP

When considering a backup solution, an important area to consider is how often you should perform a backup.  There are two approaches to backup frequency.  The first is to schedule and manage backup sets, including full and incremental backups.  The … Continue reading

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Backup and Recovery

Businesses of every size are experiencing an explosion of data storage needs – due primarily to increased governmental regulation, burgeoning e-mail and collaborative messaging, and the digitization of virtually all business information. Such developments present significant challenges for organizations – … Continue reading

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