Posted by Mark Campbell
Image source – Level 3 [Preface: This is the first in a four-part series that uses the AWS outage as a springboard to discuss our technology vision for backup and continuity. Just as we talked...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” [Blaise Pascal] IT professionals are busy. Really busy. It’s really simple. They have to do more stuff and protect mor...Read More
Posted by Terry Robinson
Did you know that 90% of companies that lose more than a few days of commercial information go out of business within the next 2 years? This risk is easily mitigated by using the Cloud to create off-s...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
A tale of two surveys, one by Solarwinds, the other by Unitrends. In December 2015, Solarwinds surveyed 257 IT professionals in the US and Canada as the basis of its IT Trends Report 2016: The Hybrid ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
World Backup Day is just around the corner – an event that celebrates the importance of protecting our data. Those of us interested in Boomerang know the importance of backing up our VMware VMs...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Last week Microsoft released a technical preview of Azure Stack. What is Azure Stack? To quote Microsoft: Azure Stack extends the Azure vision by bringing the cloud model of computing...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Is there an Amazon AWS tax? Or is AWS the exact opposite – a subsidy? I’d argue the latter – that AWS and the other hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[This is a companion post to VMware, Containers, and Backup that can be found at the Unitrends blog site. The background for VMware containers is given in both; where they differ is th...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
It’s no surprise that the “all on premise” hardware and software vendors are under attack from the New Age cloud companies. Many continue to promote the rationalization of their conventional v...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Is Ransomware a disaster? Most who have been targeted would say that it is. Those that have bee struck will tell you that it’s a particularly cruel type of disaster. Just how bad is it? Th...Read More