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Home workers beware The laptop at home is much less secure than in the office. In most cases, someone will log into the work server from home via a public channel. That requires a strong password, much stronger than would…
Why ransomware is growing and what you can do about it Increasingly, reports of ransomware and hacker attacks on computer systems are popping up in the daily news. The victims are not minor. In December, Maastricht University was affected by…
3-2-1: this is how to keep your data safe! Healthcare facilities in particular have had to deal with it in recent weeks: attacks by hackers through system leaks. Not entirely coincidentally, in our previous blog we discussed the ransomware attacks…
Can you dedupe, part 2 Several weeks ago, we already told you about the “common” file-based and more advanced ways of deduplication. If we are going to deploy deduplication to a backup storage, and that storage deduplicates automatically, that is…
The information must be preserved The essential question in archiving is not: how long will my CD last? But: what should I do so that the information on my CD will last longer than the CD? In fact, the lifetime…
He who keeps what, has what This is the second part of our blog on migration. How do you keep information from the past understandable and accessible? It is important to migrate data from one storage to another in a…
The fourth pillar of secondary storage: low complexity Secondary storage should be as least complex as possible. This is easily said, but no less true. The more systems you have, the more specialists you need and the more service contracts…
Why archive data must be available quickly and inexpensively A customer recently told us that they use local storage for medical research data during processing and analysis. After all, it’s fast and cheap because it’s on premise and, after all,…
Does your backup actually work? Some weeks ago, we published a blog about the “time-honored” 3-2-1 rule when backing up. One of our partners responded to this blog with the fair comment that testing the restore is just as important.…
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