Ransomware is making CIOs and administrators lose sleep. The fear that a hacker will encrypt your data and then force you to pay for the key is very real. Using your own encryption is no panacea, ...

In this podcast, we look at snapshots and their role in data protection strategy with Shawn Meyers, field chief technology officer (CTO) at Tintri. Meyers also talks about the limitations of snapshots ...

While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...

Network-Attached Storage distros include a barrage of features to enhance the utility of your backup and data archival server. On the file system front, you’ve got the Copy-on-Write and checksum ...

Somewhere on your NAS is a backup waiting for its big moment. Hopefully, it's ready!

Snapshots capture the exact state of a VM, disk contents, memory, and power status, at a specific moment. They are ideal for short-term rollbacks during testing, but are not a replacement for proper ...

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file, only to realize moments later that it’s gone for good? Or perhaps you’ve been struck by a ransomware attack, watching helplessly as your data ...

Today we announce the availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots Archive with AWS Backup. Previously available only in the Amazon EC2 console or Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, ...

IT teams often use Kubernetes persistent volumes as a repository to store application data. Like any other type of application data, admins must regularly back up data in Kubernetes persistent volumes ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more ...