01
Jun
The State of Backup in 2017: New Nasuni eBook
No IT group loves their backup. It’s expensive. It’s difficult to manage. And it often fails to come through when you need it most. So...
31
Mar
Today is World Backup Day 2017 – For Nasuni Enterprise Customers, It Can Be a Vacation Day
March 31st has become World Backup Day, a day meant to remind everyone to focus on “the enormous task of preserving our increasingly digital heritage...
30
Mar
An Alternative to Backup? Finally Yes, Thanks to the Cloud and Continuous File Versioning
The cloud is enabling IT to rethink its use of legacy tools and processes that, for years, have been costly and cumbersome. Storing and protecting...
27
Mar
5 Best Practices for Freeing IT Resources
Each year, IT is tasked with a growing number of strategic or business-changing initiatives. There are more of these projects, and they are more important to...
21
Feb
4 Features IT Should Expect from a Backup Solution
No IT group loves their backup. It’s expensive. It’s difficult to manage. And it often fails to come through when you need it most. So...
07
Dec
Confessions of a Former Tape Jockey: The Evolution of Data Protection in the Cloud Era
In the early 1980s, my first job out of school was in IT. As the minion in the group, I had the thankless role of...
23
Feb
How Snapshots Can Replace Backup as a Primary Data Protection Solution
The cloud is changing data storage and protection in fundamental ways, and the snapshot is no exception. Snapshots are images of a disk at particular...
07
Jan
What’s Next For Enterprise Storage? 2016 Predictions
What an amazing year. In 2015, we doubled our business for the third year in a row. We released UniFS® 7 with all new Sync...
29
Sep
The Slow and Painful Death of Backup
There is risk in predicting the demise of any powerful and popular technology. Antivirus software and firewalls have hung around far longer than some predicted,...
02
Sep
The Unexpected Benefits of Cloud-integrated Storage
Enterprises typically start searching for a cloud-integrated storage solution to address a particular problem. It could be the unchecked growth in the size and volume...
02
Feb
Groundhog Day – The Storage Version
We all know the movie – Bill Murray plays an annoyed and despondent weatherman sent to Punxsutawney Pennsylvania to cover Groundhog Day for yet another...
19
Nov
File Storage – The Stack is Odd Against You
Wait what? Isn’t that ‘the odds are stacked against you’? Yes, that too, but actually I wanted to address how odd today’s storage stack has...
22
Aug
Storage that’s bigger on the inside and can travel through time? Must be a TARDIS.
I recently had the pleasure of being on a panel at the ILTA 2014 Educational Conference. At the conference they open the exhibit hall the first night...
09
May
Five Things You Can Do If You Don’t Have to Pay for Backup
If you’re a typical enterprise IT department, caught between a multi-million dollar backup upgrade and a hard place, this post is for you. No CIO...
02
Apr
Cut the Fat Out of Your IT Budget With This One Neat Trick
Take a look at your IT budget. Take the cap off your red pen. Run a line straight through all backup costs. Doesn’t that look...
11
Mar
Consumers Lead Rise Of Connected Storage
Connected storage may mean the end to backup and recovery as enterprise systems follow the pattern consumers established with Box and DropBox. Everything is connecting....
27
Aug
Amazon Glacier – Archive in the Clouds
Anytime Amazon makes a big announcement relating to their cloud offering you can bet it will create a buzz in the storage industry. Last week...
29
Mar
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...
23
Feb
Top 5 Reasons for Disaster Recovery
With our guaranteed 15 minute disaster recovery and several years under our belt with our product, we’ve gotten an understanding of the top reasons for...
21
Feb
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...
16
Jan
DR Solutions: Recovering from a True Disaster
Early in 2011 we had our first production disaster recovery event. We had thoroughly tested the Filer’s DR capabilities countless times on our own, and...
11
Jan
5 Storage Predictions for 2012
2011 was quite a year for the storage industry. From the billion dollar acquisitions to the disruptive flooding in Thailand, it was a year to...
01
Dec
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...
14
Apr
The Best Backup is No Backup.
Rethinking backup in the era of the cloud In the scale of miserable IT jobs, backup ranks up there with building a full rack of...
12
Apr
Too Big to Backup
Data Protection in the Cloud Amazon S3 is the largest public storage system in the world. In 2008, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, estimated that...
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