The Arraya Blog

The news broke fast and furious at VMworld last month, keeping the members of the Arraya team in attendance plenty busy as they attempted to experience (and document) everything that took place. While their efforts were admirable – check out their coverage HERE and HERE – there’s still plenty of stories to dive in more […]

Heads up: VMware just announced its vSphere Data Protection (VDP) offering has reached end of availability (EOA). This means all vSphere versions coming after 6.5 will no longer feature the backup and recovery solution. Naturally, customers who count on vSphere Data Protection to defend their virtualized data are going to have a few concerns as it […]

My previous post, a recap of how Arraya spent our 2016, kept to the year’s highlights. While this new post will also look back at last year, I’d like to focus in on a single issue: cyber security. Unfortunately, doing so requires going back to some of last year’s lowest points. Despite all of the positive developments […]

Cloud vendors typically have your back when they make a mistake that puts your data in jeopardy, but what if that mistake comes from inside your company? According to Dell EMC, human error is responsible for 64% of data loss. That’s a lot of damage being chalked up to employee carelessness or them just plain […]

A recent study sought to gauge the level of confidence organizations have in their approach to data protection – and the results were not pretty. The Dell EMC study revealed less-than-overwhelming confidence in here-and-now recovery abilities and painted an even bleaker picture of future prospects. Considering this study pinned the average cost of data loss at […]

What’s the best way to minimize the financial impact of a data breach? The easy answer? Don’t have one. While describing that ideal end state may be easy, anyone in IT security knows actually achieving it is not. For today’s cyber crooks, data breaches are a business and, according to one recent survey, business is […]

Today’s businesses back up a dizzying amount of data. Sifting through that amassed information to find and restore a specific file accidentally deleted by an end user is no small undertaking. However, limitations such as an inability to search cross-server or cross-platform only further complicate the process for those tasked with managing backups. What would […]

EMC World 2016’s themes of automation and the need to modernize were echoed frequently during Day 2. They came up during a keynote address given by Jeremy Burton, EMC’s President of Products and Marketing. “Modernize. Automate. That will transform your IT Operations,” Burton said. The idea behind this message was also palpable throughout the day’s […]

Microsoft just made protecting VMware virtual machines (VMs) in the Azure cloud as seamless as possible – and it did so while lowering cost of ownership and improving manageability. Those are some of the takeaways from a recent announcement by the tech giant concerning the enhanced VMware-to-Azure functionality that has come to Azure Site Recovery […]

Data. It’s essentially the lifeblood that every organization has in common. Every day, businesses take more in, send more out, and make more themselves. Without data, we’d all be very far up a not so scenic creek with nowhere to go. Considering the value and volume of all of that data, it’s no surprise cyber […]