Overcome common cloud backup security issues in remote work

T-Blog Editor/ October 5, 2020/ Backup and Archival Tools, Cloud backup, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Miscellaneous Resources

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesYour cloud backup and storage usage may be on the rise. Make sure you take the necessary security precautions detailed here to keep your data protected. By Krista Macomber Cloud-hosted backup products — including backup of data in the cloud and cloud-hosted backup software — are seeing a surge in popularity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, longstanding

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Types of Backup Explained: Full, Incremental, Differential, etc.

T-Blog Editor/ October 4, 2020/ Backup and Archival Tools, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThere are several different types of backup. Here’s how to choose the best way to safeguard your data and recover appropriately in the event of an incident. By Russ Fellows and Paul Crocetti Protecting data against loss, corruption, disasters (human-caused or natural) and other problems is one of the top priorities for IT organizations. In concept, the ideas are simple,

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Fibre Channel compared to FATA drives

T-Blog Editor/ October 4, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, SQL and Exchange Resources, Storage fabric, switches and networks, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesSituation: We want to buy an array for SQL and Exchange data. The vendor recommends their Fibre Channel (FC) drives, but they also have Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives that are about half the price. We could run twice as many FATA spindles for the same price so is there any reason to go for FC over FATA? We

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What are Microsoft Teams backup and recovery best practices?

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Backup and Archival Tools, Cloud backup, Cloud computing, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBackup and recovery of Microsoft Teams is often a complex process. Explore these guidelines to help simplify the important protection of your Teams data. By Brien Posey Over the last several months, Microsoft Teams has seen a dramatic increase in usage. Even last year, Teams was gaining momentum, but with so many people now working remotely as a result of the

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What are 5 top Microsoft 365 backup considerations?

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Cloud backup, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesSaaS application backup is increasingly prevalent, and for good reason — it’s critical for ensuring data protection. These five guidelines will help you protect Microsoft 365. By Brien Posey With Office 365 becoming Microsoft 365, administrators are wondering what this evolution changes regarding their data protection needs. As it stands right now, not much has changed from a backup and recovery

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SME backup products offer diverse routes to the cloud

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Backup and Archival Tools, Backup and recovery software, Data storage backup tools, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, IT Managed Services, IT Management, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as “traditional” software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances. By Antony Adshead Computer Weekly recently surveyed the main backup software providers and those that supply a new breed of backup appliances, all built for the cloud era as a target. Here we look at the rest – all small and medium-sized enterprise

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Acronis backup and recovery software: Features to know

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Backup and Archival Tools, Backup and recovery software, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA long-time cloud backup proponent, Acronis tries to make the selection and use of its data backup products easier with a Backup Purchase Wizard and Universal Restore technology. By Brien Posey With a reputation as stable, easy to use and innovative, Acronis backup and recovery software products are the go-to data backup offerings for many organizations. And since approximately 2012,

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Do you need to make Exchange Online backups?

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Exchange Online administration and implementation, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Messaging and collaboration, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMicrosoft has several protective measures in place to let customers restore deleted mail in Office 365, but backup vendors will say it’s not enough to cover every scenario. By Nathan O’Bryan, Planet Technologies Moving from on-premises Exchange into Exchange Online is a big change for multiple reasons. These are different systems that require different administration strategies. For administrators, one of the

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Microsoft 365 disaster recovery options: Native vs. third-party

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Backup and recovery software, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhile Microsoft offers disaster recovery for its 365 platform, you might need more protection. Explore some of the available options, plus how to create a DR plan. By Brien Posey Microsoft 365 — formerly Office 365 — is one of the most popular software suites for businesses. Given the volume of data that organizations store within Microsoft 365 applications such

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Use the command line for ESXi host backup and restoration

T-Blog Editor/ September 27, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips, VMware ESX and ESXi administration

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBacking up and properly restoring VMs are essential tasks for workload protection. Use a command-line interface, such as vSphere CLI or PowerCLI, to back up and restore the ESXi host. By Stephen J. Bigelow VMware administrators can back up an ESXi host using one of two command-line scripting interfaces: vSphere CLI and PowerCLI. After creating the ESXi host backup, those

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