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Why Your Business Needs an Enterprise Backup Strategy

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  In today’s data-driven business environment, data is often considered as one of the most precious assets for any company. With the increasing volume of data being generated as well as processed on a daily basis, safeguarding this critical information has become prime important. For all such sorts of things, enterprise backup solution can play a significant role. There are different advantages associated with the implementation of an enterprise backup solution: Let’s discuss each one of them carefully: 1. Data Protection: One of the primary advantages of implementing an enterprise backup solution is robust data protection. Data loss can be caused by a variety of things, including faulty equipment, human error, cyberattacks, and natural disasters. The knowledgeable team at  Kelyn Technologies  make sure that your data is adequately backed up in order to decrease the chance of data loss. Data Encryption:  Many corporate backup solutions offer reliable encryption optio...

Exploring Data Recovery Strategies Beyond Backup

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With the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks, it is crucial to ensure your organization has a solid data recovery strategy. Almost every news article about ransomware mentions the need for good backups. Maintaining a good set of backups is one of the key strategies for mitigating the damage caused by the attacks. But backups alone are not enough. One of the topics I find has not been discussed is the recovery plan. Pre-planning is critical to a successful data recovery strategy. Many organizations plan their systems to meet a specific “Backup Window”. When I talk to clients, often the first thing they want to discuss is “How fast can the data be backed up?”. In my experience, what many organizations fail to do is plan for the recovery window. Backups are worthless if you are unable to recover or recover quickly enough. Below are a few topics that should be considered when reviewing your organization's recovery plan: Do you have defined data types with Service Level Agreement...

Flash Storage: A Game-Changer in Enterprise Data Centers

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Organizations constantly are seeking new ways to address workload-specific storage demands in terms of performance and capacity while also meeting service-level agreements, response-time objectives, and recovery point objectives. Many information technology operations are inspired by successful hyper-scale organizations such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. However, most enterprises lack the scale and substantial development and operations commitment necessary to deploy software-defined storage infrastructure in the same ways. Hyperscale economics also typically don’t work out at a smaller scale, resulting in poor utilization or unacceptable reliability issues. Another hurdle for enterprise information technology is that hyper scale organizations typically have a very small, tightly controlled application environment that facilitates these economies of scale. In contrast, most large enterprises must deploy storage infrastructure to serve a heterogeneous application workload with diver...