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Backup Security Measures: 5 Essential Steps

The ever-expanding role of data in every facet of our lives has made it increasingly important to plan for the possibility that something might go wrong. And given the various threats to data, chances are it probably will. That’s why you should be prepared all the time.

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Managed Backup Pricing: FAQ for MSPs

Setting prices for managed backup services is a difficult task. There are many factors to weigh and variables to consider, such as whether you should discount for archival storage tiers and whether to include disaster recovery services as part of managed backup pricing.

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Is Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Vendor Storage-Agnostic?

Many backup and disaster recovery (BDR) vendors in the market host backups in their own clouds. While this doesn’t sound like a big deal, it can be, especially when considering control, security, and pricing.

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NAS Backup Strategy: Local, Cloud and Hybrid Backup

Unlike typical external hard drives, NAS devices provide built-in operating systems that support features like remote access, printer streaming, or native media streaming. Additionally, you can save images, server data, application databases, and so forth without any supplementary management device.

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QNAP Cloud Backup: Best Practices, Software to Use

A QNAP NAS is a great way to keep data safe and available. But the fact is that even if you have data redundancy built into the NAS, it’s still important to perform QNAP cloud backups as well to

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Why Cloud-Based Storage Is Better Than Traditional Storage

It’s never been more important to back up business data. Data breaches are happening every day, and there aren’t any signs of attacks slowing down anytime soon. Even though there are numerous ways to back up data, using cloud-based storage is becoming increasingly popular among businesses.

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What Is S3 Intelligent Tiering and When Should I Use It?

In the whirlwind of re:Invent 2018, AWS announced a number of new features and improvements, including new database options, S3 Batch operations, and machine learning services.

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SAN vs NAS: Difference Explained

When you are looking for local storage for a business, there are two options: NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network). Today, you will find out what the difference is between storage area network and network attached storage and whether it is NAS or SAN that fits your needs

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Microsoft Azure vs Amazon S3 Data Transfer Pricing Comparison

Bandwidth and data transfer pricing can have a significant cost on your cloud-computing bill. And unlike the basic pricing of cloud-computing instances, data transfer costs on clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure can be difficult to compare, because each cloud provider uses a somewhat dif

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What Is the Best Backup Schedule for a Small Business?

“We should have been setting a rigid backup schedule”, – that’s the thought that eventually comes into IT-department minds after a disaster strikes. Below we shared thoughts and advice for a small business backup schedule, that would not let such drama occur.

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Part 3: Building Backup Infrastructure for SMBs: Hybrid Systems

This is the third in a series of articles on setting up backups. The first was on backing up local infrastructure. The second was on setting up backups when a company’s applications and data are all in the cloud.

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