The cloud has gone mainstream, 75% of businesses are using or plan to use cloud based services. More Enterprises are adopting multi-cloud environments, 50% of IT leaders plan on using four or more cloud-based services.

Why the public cloud has become the state-of-the-art target for backup, archiving, and disaster recovery

Review these 20 real-world business reasons to move backup, archival and disaster recovery (DR) to a single, native cloud platform.

It’s the challenge businesses of every size wrestle with: How to improve employee productivity while driving down costs. Technology can help achieve that goal – when the right tools are used.

For most small and mid-sized businesses the future is all about growth, and a cloud-based approach to information technology is inherently supportive of growth strategies.

Technology evolves at breakneck speed, and it plays an increasingly important role in the success of all types of businesses, regardless of size.

By managing latency well, your network can support cloud services, off-site backup and mirroring, and e-commerce – adding to your company’s bottom line and making your operations more efficient with happier users.

Although ESG continues to see the vast majority of IT organizations living within a disk-plus-tape world, no one can argue against the idea that the cloud is becoming a viable and attractive component of any data protection architecture. Modern disk and tape solutions have overwhelming benefits for ROI, but those benefits can often be expanded by leveraging the economics and additional agility capabilities of a cloud tier. And all of those tiers would benefit from smarter data protection and preservation mechanisms through the combination of both backups and archiving.

This white paper demonstrates how to increase profitability by reducing the operating costs of backup and archiving using Riverbed Whitewater and Amazon Glacier cloud storage, instead of traditional tape backup methods. A convenient checklist summarizes operational cost categories used to calculate this ROI. These include ongoing monthly costs for media, labor, and offsite storage of backup data, and monthly costs for cloud storage of backup and archival data.

Information is becoming the currency of the 21st century, and organizations of all sizes are creating more information than ever before. Frequently, organizations struggle with how best to balance storage requirements with available budgets. The benefits of greater storage capacity are clear: better change management and roll-back, easier archival and discovery, reliable backup and recovery. But to continually grow on-site capacity requires unsustainable investment and introduces unnecessary risk. Prominent cloud service providers present an appealing alternative with their vast amounts of storage, offering low cost, high availability, and built-in redundancy. Riverbed’s Whitewater® family of cloud storage gateways is a drop-in replacement for existing tape- and diskbased backup targets, cuts backup costs 30-50% compared to tape and disk, and provides effective DR capability with minimal effort.

This white paper details the current challenges organizations face with respect to their evolving IT requirements, growing storage needs, and more extensive data protection requirements. It focuses on an expanding set of cloud-based storage offerings and the buying considerations of those who want to improve the data management metrics associated with data protection services such as backup and recovery. The paper also takes a closer look at the solutions offered by Riverbed Technology that allow organizations to integrate cloud-based storage withing solutions that address a growing set of data protection demands.

Storing data in the cloud using a Whitewater™ cloud storage gateway from Riverbed Technology overcomes what is becoming a serious challenge for IT departments: how to manage the vast, and ever-growing, amount of data that must be protected. Whitewater eliminates concerns about data security, data transmission speeds over the Internet, and data availability, while providing great flexibility and a favorable return on investment. Moving data to the cloud replaces the high costs of tape and disk storage systems with a pay-as-you-go cloud storage tier. This paper makes the business case for cloud storage, outlining where capital and operational costs can be eliminated or avoided by using the cloud for backup and archive storage.

Compliments of Unitrends. DCIG's analysts have done the heavy lifting for you. This Buyer's Guide evaluates the full range purpose-built backup appliance product capabilities, including features that enable the long-term retention of backups in the cloud and even application recovery in the cloud.

his paper describes how these trends have affected storage technologies and how Oracle's storage solutions enable organizations to reduce IT costs, accelerate provisioning of private cloud services, and achieve higher service levels.

This paper describes how these trends have affected storage technologies and how Oracle's storage solutions enable organizations to reduce IT costs, accelerate provisioning of private cloud services, and achieve higher service levels.

Data that once lived in basements and backrooms is being moved to cloud-based servers and SaaS applications. Historically, data backup has always been a key component of any IT strategy – whether it was stored on floppy disks, duplicate servers, or in custom built applications. With this shift to the cloud, backup shouldn’t be taken out of the strategy; rather, it should be re-thought to be more adaptable and cost-effective –the same reason you moved to the cloud in the first place.

This guide covers various features and functionalities that you should look for when selecting a cloud-to-cloud backup solution and help you determine which are most important for your business. Included is a complete checklist to use when speaking with various providers.

Today, data volumes are growing exponentially and organizations of every size are struggling to manage what has become a very expensive and complex problem. It causes real issues such as: • Overprovisioning their backup infrastructure to anticipate rapid future growth. • Legacy systems can’t cope and backups take too long or are incomplete. • Companies miss recovery point objectives and recovery time targets. • Backups overload infrastructure and network bandwidth. • Not embracing new technologies, such as cloud backup, because there is too much data to transfer over wide area networks.

New Business Opportunities for IT Resellers, Solution Providers and System Integrators

White paper discusses meeting the challenges of remote data protection in the private cloud and includes requirements and best practices

Meeting the Challenges of Remote Data Protection

Whether your businesses are connected to the Internet via T1/T3, DSL or Cable, incorporating a mobile broadband backup solution adds uptime whenever there is a loss in connectivity via your wired line. With CradlePoint routers as your Internet backup solution, you're ensured more uptime for your POS transactions and cloud-based services while gaining significant financial and operational benefits over wired backup solutions including: better reliability, lower operating costs, greater ease of use and management, and quicker speed to deployment. Please download the whitepaper to learn more!

Companies are moving applications to the cloud with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) usage increasing at a steady rate. IDC research has found that over half of organizations currently utilize a hybrid cloud configuration. For many companies, backing up data to the cloud is the easiest way to begin using the cloud. To achieve the benefits of backup to the cloud without taking on extra risk, IT leaders need to understand the nuances of cloud-based storage services and plan accordingly.

Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business are the applications your business relies on every day. But without a smart backup plan, finding and restoring lost Office 365 data can take hours, days, or even longer. The facts are that data loss can occur in cloud-based applications, including Microsoft Office 365 and deleted items will be permanently removed after 14 days. Read our eBook to learn how to broaden your backup and recovery plan to include purpose built protection for Microsoft Office 365.

Will your company will lose data in the cloud? Many organizations think SaaS providers will recover their data but that is not the case. Gartner assesses backup and recovery shortcomings of SaaS providers and provides considerations to close the gap.