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October 23, 2024  — 10 min read
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October 23, 2024  — 10 min read
What is security patching and why it is important for business sucess
Discover the importance of regular security patching in 2024 and how to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Understand the security patching process, from identifying vulnerabilities to applying patches seamlessly with the best practices for effective patch management, ensuring your systems stay updated and secure.
March 14, 2012  — 1 min read
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March 14, 2012  — 1 min read
Boston Fire leads to customer failover
The power outage affected the Boston office one of our large disaster recovery customers. We protect 70 servers in 11 offices around the US for this customer.
March 02, 2012  — 1 min read
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March 02, 2012  — 1 min read
Hazard Insurance
Clusters of tornados last week and this week in the US Midwest once again bring one’s thoughts to the issue of insurance.
February 22, 2012  — 3 min read
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February 22, 2012  — 3 min read
nScaled Closes Series A Investment
As you can imagine, we are very excited to announce that we just closed a $7M Series A round of financing!
February 15, 2012  — 4 min read
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February 15, 2012  — 4 min read
Protecting Multi-tier Applications, Part II
In a multi-tier server environment, the quiescent state of a single server isn’t enough. In order to achieve a working and consistent application, the various servers that make up the entire application stack may need to be in a quiescent state across multiple servers, a term referred to as “cross-server application quiescence”. As an example, in a document management system where the database server and a file server are both present, it is often necessary for the database and file server to be recovered from virtually the same moment in time. In other cases, it may be better for the file server to have a more recent copy of the data than the database server but never the other way around. In the process of working with our customers, nScaled has experience working with many different types of multi-tier applications.
February 03, 2012  — 2 min read
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February 03, 2012  — 2 min read
Protecting Multi-tier Applications
Our crack Services team has written a new technical solution brief about the pitfalls of doing DR for multi-tier applications. Seeing as how most apps these days are multi-tier, and those apps are usually the most critical to a business, figuring out how to backup or failover is paramount. We’ll serialize the tech brief for a few days here.
January 30, 2012  — 1 min read
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January 30, 2012  — 1 min read
We’re Giving ‘Em Away!
nScaled is now offering free accounts. We just rolled this out last week and we’re starting to see some good sign-ups. We hope you’ll give it a try too.
January 25, 2012  — 1 min read
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January 25, 2012  — 1 min read
Rachel Dines is My Hero
Rachel Dines is my hero! She wrote a dynamite piece on improving disaster recovery preparedness that is all about our favorite topic, Testing. Dines is an analyst at Forrester covering IT infrastructure issues like BC/DR, so she knows her stuff. In her article, she lays out 10 best practices for companies for exercising their DR plans. It’s all terrific advice. Go read it now.
January 20, 2012  — 3 min read
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January 20, 2012  — 3 min read
Three Phase Workload Recovery, Part I
This is the first of three posts we’ll do on a data/workload protection & recovery model we call Three Phase Workload Recovery.
January 12, 2012  — 1 min read
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January 12, 2012  — 1 min read
Upgrading Backup is Too Little, Too Late
One of the big old players in backup software recently announced that they will “blur the lines between backup and archive,” by automatically aging backups to an archive. If your perspective is that of the old-school backup mindset, this probably sounds like progress.
January 11, 2012  — 1 min read
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January 11, 2012  — 1 min read
Standing Up to Mother Nature
If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we like to emphasize the small, “every day” disasters that are so common yet so easy to overlook, like the fried power supply or the accidentally deleted file. The ones where you don’t need to declare a disaster and failover to a remote site, but instead need a local replica of your data and workloads you can spin up in a couple of minutes.
December 22, 2011  — 2 min read
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December 22, 2011  — 2 min read
Five Things You need to Know to Get RaaS Right, Part III
In this third and final installment, we examine the various methods of data protection, and come back to our favorite topic, testing…
December 21, 2011  — 2 min read
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December 21, 2011  — 2 min read
Five Things You need to Know to Get Raas Right, Part II
Last time, we looked at the BIG difference between backup and Disaster Recovery. Today, we’ll discuss how to prioritize what to protect, and how to deal with heterogeneous environments…