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• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  AWS outage brings DR strategies back into focus

  A lengthy outage for AWS in December brought many enterprise apps and services to a halt, but it also provided a moment of reflection on DR plans and data availability.

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Disaster recovery planning on readers' minds in 2021

  New disaster recovery products attracted the site's most page views in 2021, indicating disaster recovery planning is top of mind with cloud-native protection.

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Backups for Microsoft 365 expands Rewind's portfolio

  Rewind expands its SaaS protection with Backups for Microsoft 365. The new service is the first from Rewind in support of a major SaaS platform.

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  AWS disaster recovery service now available

  AWS disaster recovery services now feature a first-party option with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery alongside a new Recycling Bin service for data snapshot recovery.

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Zerto launches DR orchestration tool for AWS EC2

  The new Zerto In-Cloud is standalone DR automation and orchestration software that uses EBS snapshots and AWS APIs instead of Zerto's continuous data protection technology.

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• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  JetStream's Azure-native DR finally takes off

  JetStream DR for Azure VMware Solution offers DRaaS for VMware VMs and is deeply integrated with Azure, including using Azure Blob Storage to minimize storage costs.

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  SIOS Protection Suite update enhances HA for cloud and SAP

  Improvements to the SIOS Protection Suite include planned failovers of SAP S/4HANA with zero downtime, GCP support and integration with third-party tools via CLI.

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  HPE fills in GreenLake with Zerto acquisition

  HPE will buy Zerto for $374 million and use its continuous data protection capabilities to bring disaster recovery, backup and data migration offerings to the GreenLake portfolio.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Zerto keeps Texas bank from being left in the cold

  During Winter Storm Uri, Woodforest National Bank enacted its DR plan and used Zerto to bring its servers back online shortly after its primary data center went completely dark.

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  Titan HST says emergency comms usage shifted during pandemic

  Vic Merjanian, CEO of emergency mass communication platform vendor Titan HST, says the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the technological push toward a contactless world.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  StorageCraft DRaaS sets up shop on Google Cloud Platform

  StorageCraft's new DRaaS offering uses Google Cloud as its back end, giving it the scale, flexibility and security to service customers with large data sets.

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Dell draws line between cyber recovery and disaster recovery

  Recovering from natural disasters and from cyber attacks represent separate use cases. Dell says customers should be aware of the differences in how to approach the two problems.

• April 02, 2021 02 Apr'21

  Castellan Solutions says COVID-19 forced BCDR rethink

  COVID-19 caught organizations flat-footed in terms of business continuity, and new challenges will arise as vaccines are distributed, according to Castellan Solutions' CEO and COO.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Infrascale refreshes DRaaS offering with SSD appliances

  Infrascale Backup and Disaster Recovery added two new SSD appliances, giving customers an on-premises high-performance backup and recovery option in addition to DRaaS in the cloud.

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  AlertMedia boosts threat intelligence warning capabilities

  AlertMedia enhanced its Global Threat Intelligence capabilities by adding a team of experts to provide professionally vetted threat warnings for its customers.

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  Everbridge CTO details critical event management 'wake-up call'

  Everbridge CTO Imad Mouline discusses how the coronavirus pandemic changed his company and businesses around the world, plus how organizations can improve crisis management.

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  JetStream Software carries DR to Azure VMware Solution

  JetStream DR for Azure VMware Solution allows customers to failover on-premises VMware VMs to Azure VMware Solution. The data is stored in Azure.

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  How IT handles edge storage challenges from COVID-19

  The COVID-19 'wake-up call' has stressed IT and storage teams, but those already using public clouds could adapt to new edge storage requirements posed by remote work.

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Castellan Solutions launches with business continuity suite

  Newly rebranded Castellan's offerings include risk management, business continuity and disaster recovery management, and emergency notification and incident management.

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  LiveProcess emergency management aids California county

  A regional coalition of hospitals, nursing facilities and other major healthcare centers uses one platform for key emergency management and communications.

• October 05, 2020 05 Oct'20

  Datrium DRaaS relaunched as VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

  Datrium DRaaS is now VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery as part of integration with VMware. It replicates directly to VMware vCloud and doesn't need Datrium DVX to run.

• October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

  Cohesity tries to fill 'SLA gap' with backup-DR combo

  Cohesity's new SiteContinuity product is an automated disaster recovery product that uses the company's backup and continuous data protection capabilities based on the data's SLA.

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Ransomware recovery steps important for 'constant battle'

  Are you ready to recover from ransomware? Actifio Data Driven sessions detailed guidelines for your recovery plan that could save your business time and money.

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Commvault launches dedicated disaster recovery product

  Commvault split off the disaster recovery capabilities from its Complete Data Protection into a separate product and added automation and recovery validation functions.

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  Horizon Bancorp adds Zerto to its portfolio

  Zerto reduced Horizon Bancorp's recovery times and improved reporting for auditors. Zerto's cloud-to-cloud replication also helps as Horizon increases its cloud usage.

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  VMware reaches agreement to acquire Datrium DRaaS

  Datrium will continue to operate independently post-acquisition, and the product will remain separate from VMware Site Recovery, but there is no word on any staff changes.

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Ransomware resilience starts before cyberattacks hit

  Ransomware is still common, especially in the coronavirus age, so you need to be ready. Explore ransomware recovery tips from an IT manager who dealt firsthand with an attack.

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  Zerto pockets $53M funding round to prove 'self-sufficiency'

  Zerto CEO Ziv Kedem said the company is focused more on profit and self-sustainability than growth. The funding will go toward improving products, marketing and partnerships.

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Alabama universities plan to share DRaaS, Nutanix HCI

  One university's disaster recovery as a service can serve as a cloud for shared services with other schools in Alabama seeking to shrink their data center footprint.

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  WANdisco, Azure do data migration dance

  WANdisco has deepened its Microsoft partnership, integrating LiveData as a native service in Azure. Customers can access LiveData through Azure Portal for backup and other uses.

• May 26, 2020 26 May'20

  2nd Watch launches cloud-based disaster recovery service

  COVID-19 is accelerating interest in disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and 2nd Watch says it can facilitate the process and reduce cost using AWS.

• March 30, 2020 30 Mar'20

  Zerto 8 opens AWS Storage Gateway, supports Google Cloud

  With the big three public clouds AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud covered, Zerto is shaping into a more complete multi-cloud platform for continuous data protection.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  Everbridge Critical Event Management tailored for COVID-19

  The coronavirus requires a massive response. Emergency communications and crisis management specialist Everbridge seeks to provide critical information for employee protection.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Zerto CEO: DR has become something real

  DR is no longer just about compliance, as enterprises find maintaining infrastructure uptime is critical to their business. This means DR for containers and SaaS, as well.

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  Disaster recovery automation tools gaining traction

  As new disaster recovery automation tools emerge, vendors and industry analysts recognize a growing demand for simplifying what can be a tedious process.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Survey: Many businesses neglecting disaster recovery testing

  Even though DR testing is a low-cost way to ensure readiness, businesses don't do it enough. Roadblocks include limited time, stretched IT teams and basic human nature.

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Zerto plays big role in McKesson's disaster recovery plan

  McKesson Corporation's disaster recovery plan is deeply detailed and relies on Zerto's technology across its many globally distributed business units.

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Datrium opens cloud DR service to all VMware users

  Datrium's upcoming DRaaS Connect will extend its cloud DR with fast RTO to all users of VMware vSphere infrastructure on premises, not just its DVX customers.

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Recovering from ransomware soars to the top of DR concerns

  Ransomware recovery may not have always been a featured topic in TechTarget's 20 years of coverage, but it's certainly made an impression in the last few.

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  PayGo cloud migration to AWS includes SIOS for HA, DR

  Utility payment company realized "astonishing" savings by migrating from a private data center to AWS but the move required more than just throwing the red switch.

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Experts: Disaster recovery plans may overlook major outages

  Disaster recovery needs to provide protection from natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires and floods, as well as cyberattacks that concern many IT pros.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  New Everbridge CEO talks education, NC4 acquisition

  Every company needs to be ready to respond in the event of a crisis. Everbridge's new CEO details why that's important and what a proper platform entails.

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Cohesity Runbook simplifies DR failover

  Cohesity Runbook is billed as a simple way to orchestrate disaster recovery failover and create best practices, but it can be used to automate workflows beyond DR.

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  HYCU Protégé offers multi-cloud disaster recovery, migration

  HYCU is seeking to make the process of multi-cloud data protection and migration more seamless. While many organizations use multiple clouds, they can lead to complexity issues.

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  TierPoint introduces cloud-based disaster recovery as a service

  TierPoint's Cloud-to-Cloud Recovery with vCloud Availability disaster recovery-as-a-service offering is now generally available to protect data centers across multi-tenant clouds.

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  Actifio multi-cloud support extends DR to AWS, Azure

  Actifio Multi-Cloud Mobility and Automation brings multi-cloud disaster recovery to Sky, along with flexible migration capabilities for companies that want to stay agile.

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  Window and door manufacturer picks Zerto for DR replication

  Weaning itself off of Veritas Backup Exec, AmesburyTruth tapped Zerto for DR replication, ready to fail over 80 critical servers into the Microsoft Azure cloud.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Iland DRaaS goes under automatic control

  The new Iland DRaaS product targets customers with limited DR resources or expertise. The goal of Iland Autopilot is to make deployment, DR testing and failover simple.

• June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19

  Latest update takes Arcserve RHA to the cloud

  Arcserve enhances its RHA disaster recovery software, enabling cloud-to-cloud failback, as well as the ability to continuously replicate from on premises to a public cloud.

• May 30, 2019 30 May'19

  IT resilience requires simpler tools, survey says

  A survey on the state of IT resilience concluded backup, DR and BC fall on a continuum of data availability, and many organizations want to merge them.

• May 23, 2019 23 May'19

  Zerto CEO: 'Zero downtime is new normal'

  Zerto CEO says you should have zero tolerance for downtime, and the convergence of disaster recovery, backup, data migration and other processes need not complicate matters.

• May 20, 2019 20 May'19

  StorageCraft president talks of modernizing DR

  StorageCraft President Douglas Brockett sees a future in which disaster recovery software is used to help customers flexibly migrate data to where it's most cost-efficient.

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Datrium DVX storage adds ControlShift cloud DR option

  The Datrium cloud DR SaaS app, formerly known as Project CloudShift, is now called ControlShift and GA, but the first version only supports Datrium on premises and Cloud DVX hosts.

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  New factors driving disaster recovery adoption

  Threats from cyberattacks and climate change have replaced natural disasters as the main drivers behind companies adopting disaster recovery and make no geographic zone safe.

• April 22, 2019 22 Apr'19

  Assurance business continuity software gauges emergency preparedness

  Assurance Software's new analytics and dashboard feature allows companies to monitor the health and readiness of their business continuity programs and pinpoint areas of weakness.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  Everbridge Crisis Management unifies communication, response

  Everbridge has launched an application that provides organizations the ability to manage a critical event throughout its lifecycle through a dynamic dashboard.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Druva Phoenix serves up new DRaaS features

  An upcoming wave of updates to Druva Phoenix and CloudRanger will boost the DRaaS offering's capabilities, and the vendor said it will extend Druva beyond data protection.

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  New Arcserve appliances tightly integrate DR capabilities

  The third generation of appliances from Arcserve combines backup workloads with disaster recovery with the ability to spin up copies directly on an appliance or to the cloud.

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  WANdisco ships blockchain-driven LiveData for MultiCloud DR

  WANdisco slips patented blockchain DConE technology into LiveData for MultiCloud, promising to deliver LAN-like speeds across clouds to improve disaster recovery.

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Assurance, ClearView merge business continuity services

  U.S.-based Assurance Software's merger with U.K.-based ClearView extends the business continuity providers' international reach, helping customers who do business globally.

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  AWS acquires CloudEndure disaster recovery, backup services

  Amazon Web Services purchases startup CloudEndure to bolster application and data migration, backup, and disaster recovery services for enterprise customers.

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  AsTech uses Flexential data center for backup and DRaaS

  When remote automotive diagnostics provider AsTech grew too big for its on-premises data center, it turned to colocation with Flexential for backup and disaster recovery.

• December 26, 2018 26 Dec'18

  Acquisition boosts Rave mass notification capabilities

  The SwiftReach acquisition not only enhances mass notification capabilities with a wider communication network, but nearly doubles Rave Mobile Safety's number of clients.

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Disaster recovery to cloud popular in 2018

  As data continued to grow in 2018, more and more businesses turned to a cloud disaster recovery strategy to take some of the burden off their data centers.

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Google Cloud disaster recovery helped save data after Maria

  In an area vulnerable to hurricanes, restaurant chain Grupo Colón Gerena turned to Scale Computing's HC3 Cloud Unity and Google Cloud DR to stay ahead of the storms.

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Druva CloudRanger launches automated disaster recovery

  Druva automates its disaster recovery for AWS workloads through its recent addition of CloudRanger. Updates to the product also include compliance-specific features.

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Virtual machine replication simplifies healthcare firm's DR

  Because disaster recovery planning and testing were too complicated, a health provider turned to Zerto virtual replication to speed up the process without increasing costs.

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  Everbridge mass notification sparkles for Tiffany

  Tiffany & Co. uses the freshly updated Everbridge Critical Event Management Platform in a number of ways. It recently had to put the mass notification capability to swift use.

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  DH2i DxOdyssey adds a layer of protection to multi-cloud

  The new DH2i security software tackles the difficulty of setting up a secure perimeter in hybrid and multi-cloud environments by creating one that is software-defined.

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Dell EMC Cyber Recovery isolates and protects data

  Cyber Recovery software from Dell EMC forms a last line of defense against malware by putting critical data in a secure vault, isolated from where data attacks occur.

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Arcserve cloud platform eyes comprehensive business continuity

  The Business Continuity Cloud brings together the spectrum of Arcserve's technologies. Through the web-based user interface, users can perform most jobs in a few clicks.

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Cloud migration to AWS keeps GSM afloat during Hurricane Harvey

  Hurricane Harvey struck GS Marketing's office in 2017. Thanks to a migration to the AWS cloud, the company avoided going underwater, even if its data center was.

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Software developer uses Flexential data center for DR

  Out of the cabinet and into the cloud, Virtual Resort Manager's disaster recovery journey started at colocation and ended up completely off premises in a cloud.

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Cloudian storage replaces tape at Vox Media

  When tape just wasn't cutting it, Vox Media turned to Cloudian object storage to handle the massive influx of rich media its publications were producing.

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Gen 8 Unitrends appliances span SMB to enterprise

  Unitrends adds 12 TB hard disk drives and more models to cover a greater range of customer and workload sizes in its Gen 8 Recovery Series integrated appliances.

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Iron Mountain data recovery adds ransomware protection

  The isolated nature of Iron Mountain's latest Iron Cloud offering is important to its battle against ransomware. The Virtual Cleanroom provides an offline recovery environment.

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  Protection from ransomware requires layered backup, DR

  A strategy for protection and successful recovery from ransomware includes everything from monitoring tools to offline storage. Organizations should use multiple methods.

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform takes flight for DR, management

  New vendor JetStream Software incorporated technology from flash caching developer FlashSoft and worked with VMware on its initial cloud data management releases.

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Tintri replication speeds agriculture firm's backup, restore

  Tintri hybrid flash enables Life-Science Innovations to complete replication every night for all of its servers. The system can provide a server restoration in seconds.

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Zerto Virtual Replication reduces marketing firm's RPO

  Maritz needed a short RPO and flexible cloud provider options for its recovery process. Zerto replication protects applications to and from clouds and between multiple clouds.

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Nakivo Backup & Replication software gets automated

  Nakivo updates its software for quick and automated recovery. While the vendor has a focus on virtual data protection, it has expanded to include cloud support.

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 dives deeper into multiple clouds

  Zerto has added to its bidirectional Virtual Replication software with multi-cloud protection for data and applications stored in AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct cuts downtime for cloud DR

  Arcserve UDP delivers short RPO and RTO for backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. The upgraded platform targets the enterprise and medium-sized businesses.

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  IT DR planning helps Frost Museum of Science weather Irma

  The Frost Museum of Science in Miami braced for Hurricane Irma with a solidified DR planning, storage and data center infrastructure, and it suffered minimal damage from the storm.

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Tintri storage solves healthcare firm's primary and DR needs

  Cross Country Healthcare standardized its production and data protection storage on Tintri and now it has 400 VMs working through the flash platform. Next up, a cloud setup.

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Quorum OnQ solves Amvac Chemical's recovery problem

  Amvac Chemical found the right solution with Quorum OnQ's disaster recovery as a service, getting a one-click disaster recovery system with multiple levels of data protection.

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Peak 10 + ViaWest enhances cloud DR, expands footprint

  Peak 10 purchased ViaWest for $1.675 billion. The combined company upgraded its Recovery Cloud and is looking to rebrand and add a new suite of services.

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Barracuda embraces Amazon S3 cloud for DR

  Barracuda now offers customers the choice of storing data either in Amazon S3 or its own cloud as it builds out its disaster recovery services.

• August 24, 2017 24 Aug'17

  Zerto replication upgrade features faster AWS recovery

  Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 increases disaster recovery capabilities in AWS and Microsoft Azure. The BCDR vendor also introduces a real-time analytics platform.

• July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17

  ATAdata launches into cloud disaster recovery market

  ATAguard protects and recovers servers and applications using AWS. The product targets the enterprise and midmarket, with additional cloud platform support expected.

• June 08, 2017 08 Jun'17

  Quorum onQ appliance gives ransomware recovery a 'shot'

  Using snapshots and server-level restores, the new Quorum recovery appliance is another layer of protection and helps organizations rebuild minutes following a ransomware attack.

• May 30, 2017 30 May'17

  Experts call IT resiliency 'the future,' as expectations rise

  Customers expect IT resilience and the ability to bounce back after a disruption. Experts say good planning and the cloud can help organizations recover.

• May 25, 2017 25 May'17

  Zerto Virtual Replication adds Azure reverse replication

  Zerto serves up smoother disaster recovery with its 'Balvenie' release. The software now has more granular analytics and reverse replication in the Azure cloud.

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  ClearSky Data storage service adds automated backup, DR

  ClearSky is expanding its focus beyond primary storage with the addition of automated backup and DR capabilities designed to help customers eliminate storage silos.

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Scale HC3 provides disaster recovery system for engineering firm

  Scale Computing HC3 clusters provide primary storage and -- with Brocade switching -- data protection, in the form of disaster recovery across two sites.

• January 30, 2017 30 Jan'17

  Ransomware recovery cases show it's possible to come back from attack

  Real estate, police and law organizations all had one thing in common: successful ransomware data recovery. These case studies detail how they were protected.

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Protection against ransomware becomes practical priority

  Statistics show organizations without ransomware protection are taking a huge risk. Analysts explain why it's important to be proactive in the fight against this epidemic.

• December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16

  Top 2016 disaster recovery planning best practices entail tests, cloud

  These top pieces of advice from the year in disaster recovery planning could help your organization get out in front of possible outages and the ransomware epidemic.

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  A guide to a better cloud disaster recovery plan

  Disaster recovery as a service has fast become an ideal way for enterprises to tap the cloud to solve their disaster recovery challenges.

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Storage pros confident their business disaster recovery plan will work

  Disaster recovery is about more than the duplication of enterprise data in an emergency, it's about getting the applications, servers and storage up and running quickly as well.