Tag: Backup

June 20, 2022

Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery where throughput and deduplication are the main concerns. Archiving calls for storing data for long periods without becoming corrupted, so when it is retrieved, it is exactly what got stored […]

April 28, 2022

As the value and business criticality of data increases, so do the challenges of backup, recovery, and data management. These challenges are exacerbated by exploding data growth, increasing SLA requirements, and an evolving threat and compliance landscape. Although hybrid cloud […]

May 17, 2021

It’s no exaggeration to say that we’re witnessing the rebirth of object storage. For years, object storage was perceived as a solution best suited to inexpensive backup, long-term archive, and massive data lakes. That was then. These days, unstructured data […]

February 15, 2021

Ransomware is becoming the number one threat to data, which makes it essential to ensure that bad actors don’t encrypt your backup data along with your primary data when they execute ransomware attacks. If they succeed at that, you will […]

February 25, 2020

As the number of places where we store data increases, the basic concept of what is referred to as the 3-2-1 rule often gets forgotten. This is a problem, because the 3-2-1 rule is easily one of the most foundational […]

August 30, 2019

Hundreds of dental offices across the US have been crippled by a ransomware attack targeting a remote data backup service offered by a third-party. PerCSoft and Digital Dental Record (DDR) — the two Wisconsin-based software companies — provide a solution […]

August 1, 2018

So here we are: we all know the role of data in today’s business is evolving at light speed and the importance of having a solid backup and recovery strategy is essential. The risk of doing nothing – or maintaining […]