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25 January 2012  — 1 min read
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25 January 2012  — 1 min read
Rachel Dines is My Hero
Rachel Dines is my hero! She wrote a dynamite piece on improving disaster recovery preparedness that is all about our favorite topic, Testing. Dines is an analyst at Forrester covering IT infrastructure issues like BC/DR, so she knows her stuff. In her article, she lays out 10 best practices for companies for exercising their DR plans. It’s all terrific advice. Go read it now.
20 January 2012  — 3 min read
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20 January 2012  — 3 min read
Three Phase Workload Recovery, Part I
This is the first of three posts we’ll do on a data/workload protection & recovery model we call Three Phase Workload Recovery.
12 January 2012  — 1 min read
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12 January 2012  — 1 min read
Upgrading Backup is Too Little, Too Late
One of the big old players in backup software recently announced that they will “blur the lines between backup and archive,” by automatically aging backups to an archive. If your perspective is that of the old-school backup mindset, this probably sounds like progress.
11 January 2012  — 1 min read
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11 January 2012  — 1 min read
Standing Up to Mother Nature
If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we like to emphasize the small, “every day” disasters that are so common yet so easy to overlook, like the fried power supply or the accidentally deleted file. The ones where you don’t need to declare a disaster and failover to a remote site, but instead need a local replica of your data and workloads you can spin up in a couple of minutes.
22 December 2011  — 2 min read
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22 December 2011  — 2 min read
Five Things You need to Know to Get RaaS Right, Part III
In this third and final installment, we examine the various methods of data protection, and come back to our favorite topic, testing…
21 December 2011  — 2 min read
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21 December 2011  — 2 min read
Five Things You need to Know to Get Raas Right, Part II
Last time, we looked at the BIG difference between backup and Disaster Recovery. Today, we’ll discuss how to prioritize what to protect, and how to deal with heterogeneous environments…
21 December 2011  — 2 min read
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21 December 2011  — 2 min read
Five Things You need to Know to Get Raas Right – Part I
A few weeks ago, we wrote about some of the more nuanced issues that businesses have to consider when evaluating Recovery-as-a-Service offerings. We expanded on that post by writing a new white paper on the topic,  Five Things You need to Know to Get Raas Right. You can download it here.
01 December 2011  — 1 min read
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01 December 2011  — 1 min read
nScaled Partners with Equinix
If you haven’t seen it yet, we just announced a strategic partnership with Equinix, (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services. We’ve just added our fourth nScaled Remote Cloud Data Center in Equinix’s Ashburn, Virginia facility to help us manage our growth, and we’ve also decided to standardize on using Equinix co-lo’s from in the future.
18 November 2011  — 1 min read
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18 November 2011  — 1 min read
Disaster Recovery 201: An advanced course
There’s a very good piece by Esther Shein over at Computerworld today called “Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know”.
11 November 2011  — 2 min read
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11 November 2011  — 2 min read
Investment Advice: The High ROI of Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery plans and solutions are a form of insurance. Companies hope that they’ll never need them, but pay the “premium” because not to do so is to put their business at risk.
04 November 2011  — 1 min read
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04 November 2011  — 1 min read
New nScaled Customer: Hallett Retail Ltd.
We’re pleased that Hallett Retail Ltd. in London have signed up with nScaled. They help demonstrate that the issues driving the adoption of cloud solutions – growing amounts of data to manage, the need for greater agility – are a global phenomenon and not just an issue in the US. Here’s their story.
01 November 2011  — 1 min read
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01 November 2011  — 1 min read
The Cost of Protection
Every day we encounter customers that have cobbled together their own disaster recovery (DR) solution, renting space in a secondary co-lo, buying equipment, setting up replication, etc. It’s a lot of work and money.