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WINTER RELEASE: INFRASCALE DR V6.17
This Winter marks the latest release of the Infrascale Disaster Recovery service. IDR v6.17 brings new quality of life improvements, some key fixes and introduces the all new Infrascale Documentation Portal! A big thanks goes out to all current Partners as well as our Product and Development teams for working toward our mission of eradicating […]
Ransomware Protection in 2019
While you may be hearing that the total number of ransomware attacks declined in 2018, that doesn’t mean your data is safe. In fact, CyberSecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware will cost businesses $6 trillion by 2021 and Cisco considers it more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs. Knowing how grim this […]
Are you Leaving Endpoints Exposed?
We all know the drill when it comes to data protection: make sure that you can failover servers and business-critical applications in the case of an outage, right? Well, in reality that’s only a fraction of the real picture. Most businesses these days are either leaving data completely unprotected, or not sufficiently protected. Instead, this […]
Will Your DR Solution Rise to the Challenge?
This may sound like a familiar situation: You have the latest and greatest disaster recovery software available. You have carefully designed processes in place to monitor the system, to be sure that the backup jobs run when scheduled and all your data is protected. Your system supports Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) to dissimilar hardware, so […]
We put the A in ITRA
You are going to be hearing a lot about ITRA in the near future. It is a term that industry pundits devised to denote the next evolution of DRaaS. This is a new acronym that literally means Information Technology Resilience Assurance. According to the Oxford dictionary, Assurance means “a positive declaration intended to give confidence; […]
2018 Proper Disaster Recovery Planning
The backup and disaster recovery industry has seen plenty of changes over the years, but with these changes has also come increased cost and complexity to most BDR environments. If you’re wondering why disaster recovery is so expensive and complex, you aren’t the only one. Most of us are left crossing our fingers and hoping […]
10 Ways DRaaS Can Save Your Bacon
Names can be so misleading. Take baking soda. Many of us think of baking soda as only an ingredient used for baking, or maybe something that helps to keep our refrigerators odor-free. But baking soda has many other uses, and is surprisingly good for your health and home, too. The use cases for baking soda […]
Top 5 Ways to Protect Against Ransomware
You’ve seen the headlines — when it comes to ransomware strains like Locky, Wannacry, and Petya, we’re all at risk. What’s more, with the growing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) trend, cybercrime is now at an all-time high and accessible to nearly anyone. Since the introduction of RaaS, negotiating with hackers is now a business in and of […]
Announcing the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DRaaS
This week, Gartner released its annual Magic Quadrant report on Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). While Infrascale was named a Leader in this evolving space – an accomplishment of which we’re fiercely proud – there are other notable market shifts in the report. We believe Gartner’s own scoring criteria, for example, can be very […]