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Aparavi recently announced the availability of new connectors that allow their data management tools to be integrated with Microsoft SharePoint Server and OneDrive. These connectors help organizations reduce costs, increase efficiency, and minimize the risk associated with data management by analyzing and optimizing unstructured data. With the Aparavi Platform, SharePoint and OneDrive users can…

Register for The Upcoming Live Webinar: Are You Treating Unstructured Data as a Second Class Citizen?

Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data within most enterprises today. This data set contains the creative output of the organization’s employees as well as unique data captured by sensors and machines. Unstructured data is large in terms of capacity and number of files. It is also the prime target of ransomware. Organizations are paying hefty ransoms to regain access to their…

Latest @georgeacrump Article: It's Not If Backup Software is Using Cloud Storage, it's How

Almost every backup solution on the market today claims some form of cloud storage support. IT planners need to understand what type of cloud storage their backup solution provides and if the architecture of the solution can genuinely take advantage of cloud storage. Surprisingly, most data protection solutions, while they may support cloud storage, actually deliver very little value as a result.…

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: How and Why to Develop a Robust File Retention Strategy

Backup applications, generally speaking, store the data they protect for a given amount of time. Increasingly, the default setting for most organizations is forever. While we are not opposed to a forever retention strategy, long term retention should not be a part of a backup. Backup data should have a specific retention time, and most organizations set it for far too long.

What Needs Retention?

Latest SlideShare: Are You Treating Unstructured Data as a Second Class Citizen?

Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data within most enterprises today. This data set contains the creative output of the organization’s employees as well as unique data captured by sensors and machines. Unstructured data is large in terms of capacity and number of files. It is also the prime target of ransomware. Organizations are paying hefty ransoms to regain access to their…

New @georgeacrump Blog: Is it Time to Bring Back File by File Backup for Unstructured Data?

Unstructured data, more because of the sheer number of individual files than the capacity it consumes, creates challenges for IT professionals looking to protect it. To get around the problem of massive file growth many data protection software solutions have resorted to image backups, which ignores the files and just backs up the entire volume at a block level. The problem with the image backup…

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: The Problem with Image Backup for Unstructured Data

Unstructured data presents two challenges to the typical backup process. First, the overall volume of the data set can be the largest data set in terms of capacity that the backup application needs to protect. Second, and potentially more problematic, is the sheer number of files that the backup application needs to protect. Unstructured data can store hundreds of thousands, millions, and in some…

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: Getting the Most Out of Cloud Storage for Backups

Most IT professionals want to use cloud storage in hopes of reducing on-premises backup infrastructure costs. While most on-premises backup software solutions claim cloud support, how they implement that support can vary significantly from vendor to vendor.

Many backup software vendors can only mirror data to the cloud, basically a disaster recovery copy. But the mirroring approach does not…