Ransomware’s effect on IT service providers can be just as damaging as the businesses hit. The imminent danger of ransomware is real. Even those that don’t typically follow or cover tech news have probably heard of it and are rightfully concerned. In 2016, ransomware surpassed $1 billion in ransoms collected and inflicted $70 billion in […]
The global DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) market has witnessed significant growth in recent years, and is predicted to grow 36% between 2016 and 2024 on a compounded annual basis. This growth has predictably attracted new market entrants and changed the market dynamics. Uptime is an operational imperative. So any form of downtime from an Exchange […]
These are turbulent times. So, organizations must increasingly stay agile to more readily identify and capture opportunities quicker than their rivals. In fact, nine out of ten executives ranked organizational agility both as critical to business success and as growing in importance over time. The benefits of enhanced agility, include higher revenues, more satisfied customers […]
If your production database or mission-critical application gets infected, how long would it take you to recover? When dealing with today’s ransomware threats, time is your worst enemy. The faster you can detect the encryption, the more time you have to take actions to restore your database or mission-critical application. Simple backup procedures will let […]
A recovery story For nearly 10 years, I used tape backup and archival systems At first introduction to using tape, it was uncomfortable. It was clunky and complicated. It felt like there had to be something better. I suggested moving to a more efficient disaster recovery (DR) system, but, at the time, all the options […]
You’ve probably seen the stats by now. More than 40% of business have been infected by ransomware this year. It’s become so profitable for cyber criminals that it’s expected to be $1 billion+ market by the end of 2016. For partners looking to protect their customers, it’s pretty daunting because once a business is infected, […]
Every now and again a technology comes along that leapfrogs over the status quo by making better use of more modern, cost-effective technologies. A popular example of this was the adoption of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2002, roughly one-in-ten owned a mobile phone in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ghana. Since then, cell phone […]
Business Challenge: Finding Simple, Affordable, and Rapid Disaster Recovery Forest Way School was facing new data protection challenges and demands that their legacy backup and disaster recovery infrastructure couldn’t meet. Like most schools, the amount of data they needed to protect had grown exponentially, along with the different devices and platforms that the data lives […]
Overview UVA Alumni Association has been an Infrascale customer since 2007. Prompted by a business objective to increase restore times and data protection reliability, they migrated from their legacy tape backup solution to Infrascale’s on-premise backup appliance. As Ellen McCree, Network Administrator for the Alumni Association said, “We moved from tape to Infrascale and we’ve […]
Tony Carollo, President of Data Shark Technologies has over 15 years experience helping companies with their data protection needs (and containing ransomware infections). Based in New Orleans, he is on a first name basis with companies that have lost their data due to major hurricanes. Watching companies struggle to recover after data loss is why he advocates […]
Tony Carollo, President of Data Shark Technologies has endured a busy season protecting his customers from ransomware infections. Recently, a medical insurance company called in a panic because their servers were infected with the cryptolocker virus. With the network under attack, mission-critical files and applications were inaccessible. Tony Carollo knew he needed to act fast to contain the […]
To fully understand why Locky has secured its spot as one of the most prolific forms of malicious software, take a look at the effect it had on Methodist Hospital in Henderson, KY. It’s a cautionary tale about the severity and extent of ransomware downtime costs. What makes Locky dangerous? Like other types of ransomware, Locky […]
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