If the problem is local, then the organization may be without some of their applications for hours. However, a disaster that hits a data center in its entirety could lead to an outage that lasts several days. In the following ChalkTalk Video, Storage Switzerland and Carbonite talk about why your business may need high availability software instead of backup.

Take a listen, and decide which option is a better fit for you:

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Kick back and watch if you’re interested in protecting data from threats and making sure that your business can get back up and running quickly, should disaster strike. According to a recent Gartner survey, customer data security and solid business continuity processes were among the top initiatives C-suite executives said helped lead them to success.

Members of the OffsiteDataSync, Inc, Veeam Software and ExaGrid took part in the making of this webinar that aims to help viewers leverage “IT investments to elevate your organization like never before.”

If you’re looking for a new backup and disaster recovery platform, check out our Buyer’s Guide that features top vendor profiles, an overview of the market and questions to ask. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for all the latest news in this space.

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Take a look at this webinar to see how easy it is to implement their solution and how to get your business back up and running as quickly as possible after an outage or disaster.

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If you’re looking for more information, check out our complimentary Buyer’s Guide for a market overview, vendor profiles and much more. You can also connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for all the latest news in the Cloud space.

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ApexSQL produces a disaster recovery video series and this specific episode focuses on how to recover specific tables from a database backup with ApexSQL Recover and there’s no need to restore the backup to the SQL Server.

They also offer a second solution. Their second offering uses ApexSQL Restore to virutally restore the database backup and take tables out of the virtual database. This saves both restore time and disk space for the user.

Take a look at the video below to learn more about it:

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Unigma and Cloudberry team up in this webinar to help you choose the best Disaster Recovery (DR) solution for your business.

Amazon Web Servces, Azure and Google Cloud platforms are looked at to see how they work, how they could assist your organization, and how they help grow the managed services business.

The one-hour, recorded webinar will cover use cases and talks about which provider handled them best. It also delves into how to save when it comes to cloud costs, how to grow your Managed Services practice in IaaS clouds, and how using the public cloud can be beneficial for Backup and DR.

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Take a look at this video, featuring Dave Daun from the Solutions Response Team, to learn the techniques for safeguarding the Spectrum Protect server from issues and failures, big or small.

The video, from IBM, looks at using Spectrum Protect along with replication and clustering. It also covers methods to move data from a data center to a vaulting facility, to the cloud, or other locations.

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This webcast offers a technical overview of the most sought-after use cases for Azure Storage. It also defines Blog Storage and how it can be used.

After watching, you should have a better understanding of hybrid backup and cloud integrated solutions from Microsoft and some of their partners including Commvault and Nasuni.

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“In an age increasingly fueled by data, It’s no longer enough to focus exclusively on backing up data.” – Asigra

Asigra has assembled an informative collection of presentations at Slideshare and this one serves as a great reminder as to why implementing a solid data recovery strategy for your business is vital in 2016. This simple 8 slide deck highlights 4 Keys of a Robust Data Recovery Strategy.

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1. The Future of Disaster Recovery

Demetrius Malbrough hosts a weekly podcast featuring technical conversations about DR and backup. Topics include: “The transformation of disaster recovery, how infrascale delivers 15 minute failover and DraaS solution must-haves”.

2. Disaster Recovery 101 With Ryan and Mark

Podcast features six steps to creating a disaster recovery plan, and much more with hosts Ryan and Mark from Carbonite

3. Datto Podcast Series

Hear directly from the Datto team on what’s new, what’s important, and what’s next in the world of backup, recovery, business continuity, cloud, data protection, and best practices.

4. Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

RunAs Radio was launched on April 11, 2007 as a spin-off of its sister show, ‘.NET Rocks!’. Since then, RunasRadio has over 400 episodes featuring hundreds of guests from the IT world. Listeners can expect a new episode on Wednesday every week, and features a guest expert, and focuses on relevant topics in the IT field.

5. ICOMM- Disaster Recovery

What can you do to make sure your business gets up and running if your IT system fails? This podcast explains disaster recovery and what the difference is to business continuity.

6. Data Protection Gumbo 

Data Protection Gumbo- a very popular choice among enthusiasts, promises to, “Inform, educate, and mobilize the world with millions of Chefs that are equipped with the right utensils and ingredients to intelligently understand, store and manage your important data.”

7. Data Backup Tools in the Cloud, with Rachel Dines

Forrester Research analyst Rachel Dines discusses the latest developments in data backup tools space. Topics include cloud backup, growing support for vStorage APIs and source dedupe.

8. My Data Backup Strategy: An Exercise in Paranoia

From podcast creator, Martin Bailey: “I should precede this with the disclaimer that I’m perhaps a little bit paranoid with my backups, but I should also add that I’ve never lost an image in 18 years of digital imaging, and that includes scans of slide film from way back when…”

9. Four Assumptions That are Killing your Backup

George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Gideon Senderov from NEC  got together in this podcast to talk about an intriguing discovery from their BDR presentation.

10. Antiquated Backup to Total Data Protection

Rob Rae, Datto VP of Business Development is podcast host. Hear how Datto partner Chris Davis successfully upgrades his customers from antiquated backup to total data protection, leveraging the power of instant virtualization.

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In 2014, the U.S. consulate database crashed that impacting 200,000 or more visa-seekers worldwide. The cause was a simple software patch gone rogue, causing a domino effect that resulted in the U.S. State Department’s central passport and visa system to crash. While the data was backed up, the system was not, throwing visa processing to grind to a halt during the slow recovery process.

According to Routers.com, in 2015 An independent computer security researcher uncovered a database of information on 191 million voters that was exposed on the open Internet due to an incorrectly configured database. The database included names, addresses, birth dates, party affiliations, phone numbers and emails of voters in all 50 U.S. states. The researcher, Chris Vickery said he found the information while looking for information exposed on the Web in a bid to raise awareness of data leaks.

If you’re one of those business owners who turns a suspicious eye at ‘the cloud’ as a backup and disaster recovery, you’d be thankful after hearing about the data meltdown at bookmark sharing website Ma.gnolia in 2009. The service lost both its primary store of user data, as well as its backup. The disaster was so devastating that the company folded.

Here’s a GREAT example of how working from home  saved the day. The American computer animation film studio, Pixar, came very close to losing a very large portion of its film, Toy Story 2. According to Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, the entire film was almost lost when an undisclosed employee typed a, “remove all”, command. Shortly thereafter, technicians realized that their backups hadn’t been working for a month. As the story goes, previously (secretly) the technical director of the film,  wanting to work from home to catch up with the kids, had been making copies of the entire film and transferring it to her home computer. Incredibly, most of the film was saved!

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