The threat of ransomware is only just beginning. In fact, nearly 50% of organizations have suffered at least one ransomware attack in the past 12 months and estimates predict this will continue to increase at an exponential rate. While healthcare and financial services are the most targeted industries, no organization is immune. And the cost? Nothing short of exorbitant.

Essential Tips to Protect, Access and Use Data Across On-Premises and Cloud Locations

As organizations seek to implement web-scale IT features for their secondary workloads, including data protection, they need to be able to expand, contract, modify their infrastructure quickly and with minimal effort. What’s more, they must be able to deliver expected outcomes reliably and at a lower cost.

Scale-out infrastructure is a new solution rising to meet these challenges. Offering a single platform for shared compute and storage resources, a scale-out infrastructure simplifies storage for high-volume secondary data and processes enabling organizations to deliver expected outcomes reliably, with greater scalability, and at lower cost. Consider these ten reasons to take a unified approach for your data protection and secondary storage and discover a more agile way to protect, access and use data across your on-premises and cloud locations.

Get Tighter Control of a Mixed VM Environment and Meet Your Data Protection SLAs

Is virtualization bringing you the promised benefits of increased IT agility and reduced operating costs, or is virtualization just adding more chaos and complexity? Getting a grip on the prismatic environment of virtualized platforms – whether on-premises, in-cloud, or in some hybrid combination – is key to realizing virtualization’s benefits. To truly achieve better IT productivity, reduce costs, and meet ever more stringent service level agreements (SLAs), you need to create order out of virtualization chaos.

We’ll examine ways in which IT executives can more effectively manage a hybrid virtual machine (VM) environment, and more importantly, how to deliver consistent data protection and recovery across all virtualized platforms. The goal is to control complexity and meet your SLAs, regardless of VM container. In so doing, you will control your VMs, instead of allowing their chaos to control you!

ENDPOINT DATA. It’s often one of the most forgotten aspects of an enterprise data protection strategy. Yet, content on laptops, desktops and mobile devices is among a company’s most valuable data even while it’s potentially at the greatest risk. According to Forrester, “employees will demand access to sensitive corporate resources from their personal devices.” However, only half of enterprises today are using some type of endpoint backup. That means that the volume of endpoint data that is in jeopardy is nothing short of significant.

Your backup and recovery solution is not just the backbone of your data protection efforts – it drives the future of your organization’s ability to know, move, manage, recover and get value from your data as business grows.

The question is – does your current solution still make the cut?

Download our guide to help determine if renewing your existing backup software maintenance contract is in line with the problems, uncertainties and threats facing your data as it evolves at a rapid pace.