Last month, several QNAP users and their systems were hit with a ransomware attack. The main attack was known as Qlocker and did was ransomware does, encrypts users’ data until they pay a ransom to get it back. QNAP made an effort to stave off future attacks and remove any malware floating around on their
Here recently, Cigent Technology came out of the shadows and announced its breakthrough Cigent Data Defense plan. This plan is two-part, involving the company’s Dynamic Data Defense Engine (D3E) and its self-defending Cigent K2 Secure SSD. Both combined add to the best security, though the two components can be used separately as well.
In the last few months, it would seem that the evildoers that leverage ransomware to make money have turned their focus to NAS devices. The most recent example we saw was with QNAP and the Qlocker attack. Though TerraMaster recently had a security fault come to light and Synology was suffering attacks a few years
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) is an on-demand disaster recovery service (DRaaS) that lives in VMware Cloud on AWS. The product is an evolution of the Datrium offering, which VMware acquired last summer. Launched last October, VMware Cloud DR has a very intuitive mission. That is to deliver a simple to use DR solution with
We’re all well aware that unstructured data continues to grow not just throughout the enterprise data center but throughout every small office in the world as well. That notion holds true even in our small office. While already a Veeam v11 user for our virtualized environment, we hadn’t yet adopted Veeam NAS backup and recovery
Recently we reviewed TrueNAS CORE 12 on our HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus, where we focused on the performance of both hard drives as well as flash, over SMB and iSCSI shares. An important aspect of this comparison was analyzing the performance hit of stronger compression as well as enabling deduplication with TrueNAS. While performance is
Last year, with the launch of Veeam Backup & Replication v10, the company announced the general availability of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure delivers enterprise-ready Azure backup, so customers can protect their workloads and overcome any risk of data loss. This solution was an excellent achievement for Veeam, which gradually
Synology DSM is a nice NAS operating system. We have lots of nice things to say about it over the years. It is probably the easiest OS for the average jane or joe to pick up and be used with little training (note: we know that some NAS users prefer the more in-depth operating systems
Today Dell Technologies’ multi-cloud storage and data protection portfolios received updates that aim to hit the popular buttons of protection, simplicity, and flexibility. The new storage and protection revolve around the Power- line, specifically PowerProtect for Multi-cloud and PowerScale for Multi-cloud.
Today Veeam Software announced the general availability of Veeam Backup & Replication v11. The latest release brings over 200 new features and enhancements that bring what the company is calling the most advanced data protection solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical and Enterprise workloads. The latest version can handle all the complexities of all the major
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