Datto is buying Backupify so it can offer a full range of data recovery services, regardless of where that data sits. Both companies deal with data backup and recovery, but Backupify’s strength,… Read more »
Continuing its cloud-related shopping spree, CenturyLink is buying DataGardens for its disaster recovery expertise. (Or, if you’re fond of awful acronyms, you can call it DRaaS for Disaster Recovery as a… Read more »
It’s been quite the week for Mohamad Ali. HP’s former Chief Strategy Officer was named CEO of Carbonite on Thursday, the day after Carbonite received an unsolicited $366.4 million bid from J2… Read more »
Amazon Web Services offers lots of IT infrastructure options, even some application level services, but has gaps to fill in its platform. Here are some areas that targeted acquisitions could address. Read more »
Some post-storm lessons are no brainers — make sure you have the right fuel hoses as well as the fuel itself? Duh. Others may come as surprise. Read more »
The new ability of AWS users to move EBS storage volumes between Amazon’s regions could drastically improve disaster recovery scenarios. Amazon announced this EBS Snapshot Copy feature early on Tuesday. Read more »
As is often discussed at GigaOM Pro, beleaguered IT pros are the ones often left to figure out which applications and data should move first and to which type of cloud… Read more »