A new report shows cloud backup and recovery solutions are growing at an accelerated pace, as enterprises transition away from traditional data protection categories. “The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

We all know the movie – Bill Murray plays an annoyed and despondent weatherman sent to Punxsutawney Pennsylvania to cover Groundhog Day for yet another...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...