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April 01 2013, 05:33 PM
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Michael Crest
The cloud file-sharing service Dropbox is immensely popular among consumer and enterprise users – and not because it’s free. Despite its insecurities, Dropbox is a favorite among 200 million users because it does what it advertises, and it does it well. It’s simple, drag-and-drop functionality makes moving files between users and devices a snap. And, in some regards, it provides data protection against loss and corruption. Dropbox isn’t the system most enterprises would typically choose. It doesn’t have the management features, account administration controls, reporting mechanisms or security most enterprises desire. It doesn’t have “feature creep” (the continual addition of features and functions), and it doesn’t need them. Now, I’m not advocating...
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By: Michael Crest
Michael Crest is general manager for the Data Management customer solutions unit at CA Technologies, responsible for the team that develops, markets, sells and supports the company’s ARCserve and ERwin product lines. Michael has more than 20 years of IT industry experience specializing in direct and...
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March 27 2013, 11:25 AM
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Bennett Klein
While we are all preparing for World Backup Day on March 31 , I’d like to suggest we need to do far more than just back up . We’re coming off a tumultuous season where Sandy took out the Northeast in just a few days and blizzard snow conditions repeatedly disrupted the Midwest and New England. Now we’re heading into hurricane and tornado season in the South and West, and we always face the uncertainty of fire, flood and even more catastrophic events. Even simple theft of IT resources could bring a company to its knees overnight. For decades, IT staff has relied on backup software for data protection and recovery. But as recent events demonstrate, business demands for faster recovery and less risk of data loss require IT to perform far more than...
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Tags: ARCserve, backup, Business Continuity, cloud, data protection, disaster recovery, downtime, high availability, MSP, recovery, Replication, virtualization
By: Bennett Klein
Bennett Klein is Senior Director of Product Marketing for CA Technologies where he is responsible for setting strategies for building worldwide market awareness and demand for the CA ARCserve Family of Products.
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March 06 2013, 03:47 PM
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Greg LaMonica
Over the past few years, we have seen virtualization use cases expand from the edge of the network infrastructure, mostly in development and Q/A circles, to being front and center as a critical business tool providing consolidation of resources and significant cost savings. (A recent 2013 report by JP Morgan estimated that upwards of 60% of all x86 workloads are now virtualized.) When new technologies hit the market that solve significant business problems, regardless of the size of the business, that technology tends to spawn additional markets in support of it to expand or manage its added functionality. This is exactly what we are seeing with virtualization, offshoot markets offering with everything from the management of virtual environments...
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Tags: ARCserve, backup, Business Continuity, cloud, data protection, disaster recovery, hybrid, MSP, recovery, Replication, virtualization
By: Greg LaMonica
Greg LaMonica currently manages the Data Management Americas Technical Sales organization, in addition to driving partner enablement processes and programs. He has been with CA Technologies since 1996, starting as a Technical Support Manager for the CA ARCserve Backup product. Since then he has held...
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February 21 2013, 05:49 PM
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Michael Crest
It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when backup was essentially a one-to-one exercise. In smaller shops, an administrator would plug a tape into the reader and the server data would get copied – usually overnight. In large data centers, servers and endpoints would back up to tape libraries with essentially the same architecture, just with far more automation and efficiency. Today’s IT infrastructure is about virtualization. If it could be virtualized, chances are it was. In fact, analyst firm 451 Research reports that 51 percent of all x86 servers were virtualized in 2012, and server virtualization continues growing at an annual rate of 13 percent. In practical terms, businesses are getting far greater server utilization rates than with...
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Tags: ARCserve, backup, Business Continuity, cloud, data protection, disaster recovery, downtime, DR, high availability, MSP, recovery, Replication
By: Michael Crest
Michael Crest is general manager for the Data Management customer solutions unit at CA Technologies, responsible for the team that develops, markets, sells and supports the company’s ARCserve and ERwin product lines. Michael has more than 20 years of IT industry experience specializing in direct and...
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February 20 2013, 02:56 PM
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Greg LaMonica
Building on my last post , now that you know what you need to protect, you can start the discovery process and determine how to move forward. Of course, you could offload your data protection requirements to a Managed Service Provider (MSP), an increasingly popular option today, but it is still your responsibility to ensure you are making the right data protection solution or service choice. Most tools today can protect or back up relevant information. The key to your entire strategy is being able to quickly or simply recover that information, helping to reduce your stress and save costs. You’ll achieve cost savings by spending less time attempting recovery, and ensuring you’re not storing irrelevant data which ties up tapes and disk space....
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Tags: ARCserve, backup, Business Continuity, cloud, data protection, disaster recovery, downtime, DR, high availability, MSP, recovery, SMB
By: Greg LaMonica
Greg LaMonica currently manages the Data Management Americas Technical Sales organization, in addition to driving partner enablement processes and programs. He has been with CA Technologies since 1996, starting as a Technical Support Manager for the CA ARCserve Backup product. Since then he has held...
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