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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This isn’t going to be a finger-wagging post, but let’s look at some jaw dropping stats. A 2016 study of 400 IT professionals found that many organizations are still using an outdated approach to backup and disaster recovery. This includes 36% of respondents who do not perform data backups at all and 44% of respondents […]
Let me set the stage. I head up the Marketing department here at Infrascale and am not as technically savvy as I probably should be. So, when technology breaks I tend to get a little whiny and demand instant help from my IT team. I’m sure the tech team at every organization must cope with […]
I have often touted how DRaaS should be deployed to mitigate the damage, downtime, and data loss associated with a ransomware attack. But, when one of our partners, Pervasive Solutions, had two clients hit by ransomware victims within 24 hours, it offered powerful real-world evidence of the power of DRaaS. You can read the entire case […]