Category: Blog
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Hyper-V: How to Back up Virtual Machines
Fact: most workloads run on virtual servers. Spiceworks’ 2020 State of Virtualization Technology report states that 92 percent of businesses have transitioned to virtual servers. Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a popular choice for virtualizing workloads, but VMWare is the overall leader in the hypervisor space. Based on total market-share, many backup and disaster recovery (BDR) service…
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Cloud Migration Success: A Cybersecurity Consulting Story
A couple months ago a leading cybersecurity firm based in the US Mountain region ran into a problem while consulting to one of their Hyper-V customers on highly secure backup software options. If you’re in tech today, you already see one of the nuances of this story. Microsoft’s Hyper-V is still a minority player in…
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How Trend Micro Deep Security Can Secure Your Servers and Transform Your Cybersecurity Posture
In today’s interconnected world, more and more companies are shifting their workloads from a single data center to a mixture of on-site servers and the cloud. There are several huge advantages to switching to this kind of hybrid cloud architecture, including increased flexibility and scalability, lower costs, and better support for an increasingly mobile workforce.…
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Your Essential Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
You can operate your business without a comprehensive disaster plan, but it’s a dangerous option. In our data-driven, work from anywhere world, security breaches are on the rise. And if you’re not prepared for downtime, either due to a hardware failure, malicious act, or natural disaster, you could lose money, trust, and even your business.…
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Advantages of Working with a Community-Minded Business
When choosing a cloud service partner, it’s typical to look at how reliable their Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings are, whether their services comply with HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2 or NIST standards, or how easy it will be to integrate their services into your workflows. But, there’s…
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Veeam Disaster Recovery: 4 Ways to Boost Your Recovery Plan
Cybersecurity, aging IT infrastructure, spikes in unwanted downtime, and other circumstances are bringing backup and disaster recovery to the forefront of many business leaders’ minds. If you’re one of them, you’re in the right place. Our IT team has created effective, affordable BaaS and DRaaS solutions for organizations across the country, working with Veeam, VMware,…
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How NVMe Enhances Storage
Over the past year, we’ve seen more Virtual Systems clients move their full stack to the cloud than any previous year. They’re storing data and backups, creating DR sites, using cloud instances to power their applications, and trading physical computers for cloud workspaces. As more customers deployed cloud technologies in 2021, Virtual Systems explored the…
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Data Privacy vs. Data Protection: What That Means in 2021
In this digital age, there’s almost nothing that can’t be done online: school, banking, work, shopping, socialization, ordering food. The list is endless! All this activity generates terabytes of data, including information that should be private, and information that should be protected. Your IP address shows your physical location, any online purchases require either banking…
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How to Build an IT Budget for Work Anywhere
CTOs and IT leaders are facing the challenge of preparing their IT budgets for 2022 – and for some of you, it’s stacking up to be a budget season like no other. There’s a high likelihood that you won’t only be enabling your team to work from their desks in the office. You’ll also be…
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Lessons Learned from the Colonial Pipeline Hack (and Other Data Breaches)
One of the largest and most disruptive cyberattacks in years occurred in May 2021, when Colonial Pipeline—a major supplier of gasoline and jet fuel to the American Southeast—was hacked and had its computer systems held for ransom. Despite making the ransom payment within hours of the attack, the pipeline remained shut down for six days,…
