It’s no secret that data backup is a crucial practice for any organization. However, it's important to ensure your backups occur in a format that makes it as fast to restore as possible. Ideally, for database applications, your data protection solution will capture complete cloud workloads with application-consistent or crash-consistent backups. But what, exactly, is the difference between the two terms? Crash-Consistent Backup Crash-consistent copies are taken at the storage layer without involving the application…
Trilio Content TeamFebruary 20, 2019
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 TeamAugust 27, 2018
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 TeamAugust 2, 2018
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 BalchaJuly 19, 2018
One of my favorite things to talk about with clients, prospects and others in the industry is the importance of having a well-thought out backup and recovery plan for businesses. It’s just as likely for me to chat with friends and family at the holidays, and at summer BBQs about this topic. Beyond the cost savings of optimized processes, the rash outbreak of ransomware and data corruption has stimulated lots of discussions. That’s why, when…
David SafaiiJuly 7, 2017
Did you know that March 31st is World Backup Day? The day was created as a public awareness effort to encourage consumers to backup the important digital data in their lives. While it is safe to say that IT people don’t need a holiday to remind them of the critical importance of data backup, that doesn't mean that they are doing everything right. A recent survey from disk imaging solution specialist Macrium Software found that…
David SafaiiMarch 28, 2017
David Safaii, Trilio Data's CEO, recently published a blog post on DevOps.com, outlining why backup and recovery should be a vital component of every OpenStack environment. In "Top 5 Reasons to Backup your OpenStack Environment," David details how backup and recovery facilitate compliance, devops, disaster recovery plans, time savings and security and forensics. Read the full blog post here.
Trilio Content TeamMarch 11, 2016
Peter S. Cohan, contributor to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, recently interviewed Trilio Data's CEO David Safaii about the company, its mission to provide the industry's first native backup and recovery solution for OpenStack, and its growth plans. In his article, "Hopkinton's Trilio is Protecting Corporate Data," Cohan concludes, "The Hopkinton data protection company has hired a former banker and venture capitalist as its chief executive officer. It is trying to grow in a huge market…
Trilio Content TeamFebruary 29, 2016
Company Cited for Data Protection and Integrity Through Its Incremental-Forever Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution HOPKINTON, MA – Nov 17, 2015 – Trilio Data, the creators of the first Backup-as-a-Service specification for the OpenStack community, Raksha, has been named to CIOReview Magazine’s list of 20 Most Promising OpenStack Solutions Providers. Trilio Data’s Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution was selected based on its flexibility, policy-based incremental-forever architecture, and the groundswell of interest the solution is…
Trilio Content TeamNovember 17, 2015
Some of the attendees who stopped by our booth asked us whether their scale out databases needs to be backed up, so I reflected on this conundrum for couple of days. Yes, these databases keep multiple copies of the data so why do they need backup? I know I have a good answer, but how do I answer in the terms that the need for backup will be self-explanatory? Does the built-in replication of these…
Murali BalchaMay 19, 2014
When you think big data you think Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB and other scale-out NoSQL databases. All these applications share an important trait; they are scale-out applications. Scale-out applications are built to scale from single node to hundreds of nodes. They dynamically distribute the data between nodes. They also replicate data between nodes for improved read performance and guard against hardware failures. So the prevailing thought is that these applications do not require backups as the…
Murali BalchaMay 8, 2014