World Backup Day
According to Wikipedia, the term "Hallmark holiday" is used predominantly in the United States to describe a holiday that is perceived to exist primarily for commercial purposes, rather than to commemorate a traditionally significant event. One of my pet peeves are the made up “special occasions” that greeting card companies and others make up to drive sales of more $5 greeting cards. I’m all for celebrating mothers, letting my wife know I love her dearly, and otherwise acknowledging the important people in…
Nasuni’s Disaster Recovery to the Rescue (Again)
We’re never happy when one of our customers goes through a disaster or work disruption of any kind. Several months ago we heard of another event where our Filer’s built-in backup and disaster recovery saved one of our customer’s data. A storage administrator at one of our enterprise accounts was working on one of their VMware ESX virtualization platforms and made a potentially catastrophic mistake. One of the great advantages of virtualization is the ability to create new machines on demand. IT often does…
Nasuni Customer Webcast: Solving Multi-Site Enterprise Storage Management Challenges
In the following on-site customer webcast, Connor Fee of Nasuni sits down with Mike Driscoll, Senior Information Architect at Walsh Construction to discuss a number of potential solutions to providing storage that is accessible from multiple locations within the enterprise. Mike has seen the company grow from only a handful of offices to almost twenty, and he has personally deployed and managed a number of storage solutions across the organization.
Storage Complexity
Unify data management with a single point of control. How do you reduce complexity, interoperability, and compatibility issues while delivering the benefits of data protection and access to your organization?
Archive vs. “Archive-ish” Data
Ask anyone in IT to define “archive data” and chances are it would go something like this: “Data that is no longer active, but still needs to be kept around for future reference or regulatory compliance.” You may also get an expletive or two thrown in for good measure. In many organizations, archive data is just that, inactive data – though archive data could include recently active data and data that is 5 years old. When it comes of age, this data is generally moved off to tape or to a slower, out of the network storage…
Health care moving toward cloud storage services cautiously
Hospitals, faced with growing amounts of electronic records and digital images, would seem a good fit for cloud storage services -- but security and other concerns compel health care providers to proceed with caution. One reason for reticence: the government's pursuit of monetary penalties for health care data breaches.
Backup-less File Servers
In the 90s the single biggest backup challenge was the protection and restoration of databases. At the time, these were the heart of an organization. Fast forward to the present, and find that while databases are just as important, file data has become equally important. The amount of data that users create and update on a daily basis is staggering. Backing up and protecting file based data has become a nightmare for backup administrators and backup application developers alike. Solutions from companies…
Manufacturing Company Takes Advantage of Affordable Storage, Automated Protection in the Cloud & Reduced IT Overhead
Navajo Manufacturing has over 30 years experience creating merchandising programs and innovative, branded products for retailers in several channels. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Navajo has multiple facilities including manufacturing, distribution, show rooms and corporate offices, and employs approximately 250 people.
What Have We Learned About Data Storage?
Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren't that different from what we have today. Large enterprises housed their data in mainframes and array clusters, and they had archive tapes carted away to mysterious locations.
Nasuni's Snapshot File Protection
Nasuni protects your data using snapshots. In the following video we'll show you how Nasuni's snapshot file protection gives you granular control over how often snapshots are taken, and how easy it is to recover data using snapshots.
