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The 3-2-1 Rule and Cloud Backup: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In today’s digital landscape, safeguarding data is paramount. The 3-2-1 backup strategy has long been a cornerstone of data protection, advocating for three copies of your data, stored on two different media types, with one copy kept offsite. This approach aims to ensure data availability and resilience against various failure scenarios. However, with the advent of cloud storage solutions, organizations are re-evaluating this traditional model, leading to a complex relationship between the 3-2-1 rule and cloud backups.

Tape vs Cloud: Smart Backup Choices with LTO Tape for Your Business

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Contact Catalogic for tape and cloud backup solutions

In an era dominated by digital transformations and cloud-based solutions, the choice between LTO backup and cloud storage remains a critical decision for businesses. While cloud storage offers scalability and accessibility, tape backup systems, particularly with modern LTO technologies, provide unmatched cost efficiency, longevity, and air-gapped security. But how do you decide which option aligns best with your business needs? Let’s explore the tape vs cloud debate and find the right backup tier for your organization.

Migration to Proxmox VE from VMware: A Deep Dive into Backup Strategies and Cloud Integration

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Selecting the right virtualization platform is a critical decision for IT departments aiming to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and scale operations effectively. With VMware and Proxmox VE leading the pack, each platform offers distinct advantages. Proxmox VE, with its open-source framework, is particularly appealing for its cost-effectiveness and flexibility. This contrasts VMware, a proprietary solution known for its comprehensive support and scalability, though often at a higher cost. Recent changes in VMware’s licensing, influenced by corporate decisions, have led some organizations to consider Proxmox VE as a more customizable and financially accessible option.

How to Recover Data From Wasabi Cloud Storage with DPX vPlus

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

DPX vPlus is a reliable backup and snapshot management solution that offers seamless data recovery for virtual environments and Microsoft 365. In a previous blog, we provided the steps for How To Use Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage for DPX vPlus Backup Storage. In this step-by-step guide, we will walk you through the process of recovering data from Wasabi Cloud Storage using DPX vPlus. Whether you need to recover virtual machines or Microsoft 365 resources, this guide has got you covered. Let’s get started!

Microsoft 365 Backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As businesses increasingly adopt Microsoft 365 services and applications, it’s essential to use cost-effective, fast, and reliable data backup solutions. While many assume that Microsoft 365 has built-in data protection, it’s important to remember that data protection is always the responsibility of your company, especially when it comes to meeting traditional backup, regulatory, and compliance policies. That’s where Catalogic DPX vPlus for Microsoft 365 comes in to provide a comprehensive Microsoft 365 backup solution.

How To Use Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage for DPX vPlus Backup Storage

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

DPX vPlus is an enterprise-ready, agentless backup and snapshot management solution for Microsoft 365 and virtual environments. It allows you to reliably improve and automate backup performance, automate recovery tests, and significantly save resources, time, and money. Microsoft 365 backups and virtual machines backups can be stored on-premises, on a local file system or share, or can be stored in the cloud using cloud storage. Wasabi backup storage delivers fast to write, low cost, and reliable cloud object storage, that also provides faster speeds than Amazon S3. Wasabi backup storage charges no egress fees, and provides 100% data immutability, so you can be confident that your backup data is tamper-proof.

DPX vPlus 5.2 Expands Cloud Backup Coverage to Azure and Google Clouds

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the latest release of Catalogic DPX vPlus, that expands cloud backup coverage and provides Microsoft 365 backup enhancements to provide unparalleled flexibility in designing and implementing data protection strategies. Known for its robust integration capabilities, DPX vPlus supports backup and recovery for dozens of virtual environments, containers, cloud environments, storage providers and applications.

In previous releases, DPX vPlus for Open VMs customers gained AWS EC2 backup and vPlus 5.2 continues this focus on cloud backup by supporting for Azure backup and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) backup.

Protect Your Microsoft 365 Data with DPX vPlus

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We live in a world where data is the new oil. Not only is data valuable for you to maintain and run your business, but if you do not have a plan for data backup and recovery, we can end up paying a high price for it. According to a study by Touche Ross, 90% of businesses without a disaster recovery plan, will fail after a disaster. Meanwhile, more and more critical organizational data is being created, stored, and shared outside of the data center. Oftentimes, this is close to or over 50% of organizational data. This data lives on laptops, tablets, mobile devices and in cloud services, like Microsoft 365. And yet this data can very easily be lost and lost for good without proper Microsoft 365 backup.

Hyperscalers and Catalogic Partner for Data Protection and Migration

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce our partnership with Hyperscalers for delivering a pre-engineered, out-of-the-box appliance for data protection, migration and recovery.

We have been working together for the past 6 months to form this partnership, with Hyperscalers hard at work discovering and testing the extensive capabilities of DPX. Out of this effort Hyperscalers has developed a detailed data protection and migration whitepaper on how to utilise Hyperscalers Storage Servers with Catalogic DPX to deliver an enterprise data protection and migration solution.

Catalogic DPX 4.8 Enhances Backups for Virtualization, Cloud Storage, and Ransomware Data Protection

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the availability of Catalogic DPX 4.8.0, our next major release that enhances agentless backups for virtual environments, expands cloud archiving, and provides immutability for compliance and ransomware data protection. First, please note that DPX did not use an Apache log4j library with the remote code execution vulnerability. However, we have decided out of an abundance of caution, to remove log4j from the supported versions of DPX to eliminate any further vulnerabilities from this library. For more information, please see How to Remove the log4j Library from DPX.

Hyper-V Backup Enhancements, S3 Cloud Storage and more in Catalogic DPX 4.7.1

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This month we announced Catalogic DPX 4.7.1 general availability. This release continues to build on the previous DPX 4.7.0 release by adding many new features and enhancements, including:

One step Master server update – Updates of the Master appliance have improved to require only running the update script to update the entire master server appliance.
Virtual Machine exclusions – Adds the ability to exclude specific virtual machines from Hyper-V backups based on explicit selection or pattern selection (e.g., test or lab)
Better password security – Enhances login security for the HTML user interface by forcing a password change on the first login.
Better job instance management. Further enhances the HTML user interface by adding the following functionality:
- Allowing the ability to start or cancel any job type from the job monitor screen.
- A download of all job logs from the job monitor screen.
More local languages – Expands the DPX local language support by adding the Polish language to the HTML user interface as a supported language.
Additional Cloud Providers – Adds support for Wasabi Cloud Storage and Scality Ring as supported cloud provider targets for Archive and NDMP Protection.