Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our […]
Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself
Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top […]
The Cost of Rework when Developing for OpenStack Clouds
According to the 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet and DORA, the mean time to recover when a service incident occurs ranges from less than one hour for high […]
Things to Know When Planning for Cassandra Backup
NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database […]
Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2
This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup […]
Why Legacy Backup Solutions Aren’t Ideal for OpenStack
Our team has recently returned from the OpenStack Summit in Austin. While there were many hot topics, we discovered people fell within two camps when it comes to backup and […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud […]
Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
I am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile “top […]
Continuous Security Key to Defending Your Data Well
Defending data isn’t easy. If it were, we wouldn’t see new data breach headlines on a weekly—or sometimes even daily—basis. That said, defending data also isn’t rocket science. A new […]
