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Trilio Employees Volunteer at the Red Cross Food Pantry

Volunteerism has become a huge part of our culture at Trilio, and continues to grow more ingrained as we flourish and expand as a company. As we look ahead to 2019, it's increasingly important for us to plan for success, both as a business and as an organization comprised of people who want to give back. Consequently, we've been reflecting on an opportunity we had this summer to volunteer at the Red Cross Food Pantry…
Katie Lyon
October 18, 2018
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Public Cloud Security Risks: What’s Real, What’s Overstated, and What You Need to Know Most

Cloud computing technologies have matured significantly since the initial adoption frenzy. Businesses of all sizes continue to move workloads to public cloud environments or have started building their own private cloud environment that they can control. But, as with any emerging market, there's talk and concern about the lasting implications of cloud technology, including the private and public cloud security risks that we may unknowingly be introducing to our workloads. You may be surprised to…
David Safaii
September 26, 2018
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Trilio CEO David Safaii Announced as “Best Tech Manager” Finalist for Boston’s 2018 Timmy Awards

Tech in Motion Boston has selected Trilio CEO David Safaii as a finalist for its Best Tech Manager category in this year’s fourth annual Timmy Awards. This award recognizes a leader who goes beyond requisite duties, empowers their team through a clear and communicated vision, promotes career growth, ensures a great team culture, inspires innovation, and leads their team to produce a great product. David joined Trilio in 2014 as the company’s first non-founding team…
Trilio Content Team
September 19, 2018
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Managing Backup Storage Costs in Enterprise Clouds

As the volume of historical data continues to skyrocket, organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to help them effectively manage their data volumes and associated costs, particularly for backup storage. As this data shifts to cloud platforms, it's becoming crucial to find a way to back up these ever-increasing backup data while managing inflating costs. Benefits of Cloud Backup Storage Organizations seek a backup solution that's easy to implement and manage. There are a couple of…
Trilio Content Team
August 27, 2018
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Cloud Storage is All You Need

Trilio is releasing a series of significant updates to TrilioVault this year, including cloud storage support and expanded platform support to include KVM-based infrastructure (including OpenStack-based private clouds and Red Hat Virtualization platforms). Quickly recover your cloud or virtualized infrastructure. Explore what's possible with TrilioVault in this Solution Overview  Tucked into the Version 3.0 release was support for S3-compatible storage as backup target. As a matter of fact, our support for S3-compatible cloud storage is ground-breaking,…
Murali Balcha
August 16, 2018
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How TrilioVault Makes Legacy VM Backup Solutions Obsolete

Data loss happens. Hardware malfunctions during firmware updates, someone fat-fingers a configuration, your server room was dampened by a leaky pipe. The list goes on. No matter the reason, with a legacy VM backup solution, you’re risking losing your data forever. Legacy VM backup solutions for the old world of bare metal servers or purpose-optimized virtualized environments cannot keep up with the demands of OpenStack. By force-fitting an outdated approach onto a modern cloud, companies…
Trilio Content Team
August 7, 2018
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The GDPR, Backups & The Right to Erasure

Companies around the world are still scrambling to comply with the new GDPR regulations, and the question has inevitably arisen regarding how backups fit into the EU's new rule set. For those who need a refresh: the GDPR was established to help enhance EU citizens’ ability to control what data companies may hold about them. Many organizations have taken steps to become GDPR compliant and have put core processes and procedures into place to attain,…
Trilio Content Team
August 2, 2018
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TrilioVault 3.0 is Now Available

Trilio has released TrilioVault 3.0, the first of several releases that significantly expand the capabilities of our OpenStack backup and recovery product. Version 3.0 includes some powerful new enhancements, including: Expanded backup target options, including Amazon Web Services S3 and Ceph S3 Protection of tenant networks and routers via expanded workload capture capabilities Deployment of TrilioVault with built-in high availability (HA) Expanded cloud lifecycle management support including Red Hat Director, seamless deployment on Mirantis MCP, and native Ansible…
Trilio Content Team
July 26, 2018
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OpenStack Backup and Recovery Requirements

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in May 2014 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. You don’t think much about OpenStack backup requirements when it comes to the cloud. After all, you build your applications on ephemeral storage and compute solutions. These resources are not expected to persist across reboots and power cycles, and your application is built against these failures anyway. You create your workloads on-the-fly from the persistent store (such…
Murali Balcha
July 19, 2018
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Automate, Automate, Automate! How to Implement & Maintain GDPR Process

Maintaining GDPR compliance isn’t just about technology, it’s also about outlining the right GDPR process for each key competency across your organization and operationalizing it so that it's part of your regular, ongoing checks. While much of this work can seem pre-emptive and superfluous, it can save your organization valuable time in an emergency scenario. Part of this planning, of course, will be your GDPR Impact Assessment. But you'll also need to develop key processes…
Trilio Content Team
July 17, 2018