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When Did Safety Nets Become Optional?
There are various reasons why some organizations would not be interested in protecting their data. These reasons could range from the lack of financial resources to the lack of non-financial resources, such as engineers to implement a solution. Regardless of whether there is a good reason to not protect your data, the net result is […]
Apr 18, 2017 · 3 minAll articles by Jeannie Liou
Showing 1–5Ransomware will Double in 2017. Are you Prepared?
A recent report found that ransomware attacks quadrupled in 2016, and are likely to double in 2017. Not surprisingly, a research survey showed that 48 percent of organizations had been hit by ransomware in the past year. And as we highlighted in a recent blog post, next generation cloud applications and databases are quickly becoming […]
A Modern Database Backup and Recovery Checklist
Do you have single points of failure? How do you handle deduplication? These questions and more need consideration when you’re dealing with database backup and recovery. Enterprises are quickly onboarding next-generation, mission-critical applications such as eCommerce, artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) on non-relational databases and distributed local storage. However, as organizations […]
Backup and Recovery for Distributed Databases
Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile devices and software as a service (SaaS). Being able to ingest large amounts of data from various sources and process that data in […]
Will Deduplication Solutions Work for Cassandra?
Cassandra is a popular next-generation database system (NoSQL) that powers the back end of high-performance web-scale applications in enterprises. It is database software for cloud applications that accelerates the organizations’ ability to power the growing number of cloud applications that require data distribution across data centers and clouds. While Cassandra offers high availability, it also […]