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The IT world is witnessing a lot of changes for the better, in the cloud market. There is growing support of hybrid cloud environments in a lot of cloud computing, cloud storage, and backup solutions. It is worth noting that why is this change in demand. Here we list the 5 reasons why hybrid environments are being readily supported in cloud solutions.   1.    More control over business-critical data Organizations retain more control over their data with a public and private cloud hybrid environment. Leveraging the security of a private cloud and the portability and scalability of the public cloud becomes the perfect combination. It avoids problems like vendor lock-in. The business-critical data is readily available with low-latency. Hybrid cloud support in storage gateway solutions makes data storage, backup and retrieval are seamless in the cloud environment. 2.    Security of data Hybrid cloud environments provide redundancy on the workloads...

Cloud Archiving solutions can be implemented seamlessly into SMEs. Enterprises of all sizes are migrating to cloud for the same reason. Archive Cloud continues to make sense for backup and disaster recovery solutions. The on-premises resources are often not enough for the provisioning of increasing workloads. It can still be challenging to make cloud work for your SME. SMEs with a cloud strategy mapped out, can leverage the cloud to the hilt.   Why it makes sense to migrate to the cloud For SMEs looking to expand and scale-out, cloud provides a scalable infrastructure. Modern cloud storage environments have proven to be more secure than conventional storage environments. With cloud storage and backup, the data is more secure because cloud services providers have dedicated resources focused on security. Setting up a secure backup and DR infrastructure on their own can be challenging for SMEs. Cloud services reduce it to mere clicks only and you have a scalable and...

Understanding data is very important. Realizing the importance of data is the first mandatory step to go further on with what could be done to take care of the business data in a better, modern and more efficient way. This article will try to make the readers realize why data is important at the first place. The next step would be to see why NAS storage can be a good ad better option for storing data. The first thing first, what is data and is it really important for enterprises to store it and make sure it is stored in a reliable infrastructure which has enough storage space to meet the needs and requirements of the enterprise. With No Customer Data Comes No Responsibility The first case shows the importance of storing data in NAS storage,  for example, is a situation in which a business has not kept records of its customers. A customer comes in to claim a warranty on a product which has been defected or had a fault during the warranty time period. With no data ...