Why most Office 365 backup solutions suck
If you’re looking for backup of Office 365, you’re not alone. The recent surge of interest in Office 365 backup has come as companies realize that, for all great features included with Office 365, backup isn’t one of them. Whether it is SharePoint Online, Exchange...
Technical tour of EMC Centera migration to HubStor
With EMC Centera having reached its end-of-life, Centera customers are faced with the need to migrate data off aging Centera devices to a new home. Our post Migrating from EMC Centera to the HubStor Cloud – WORM Compliant Storage pointed out that the current options...
Recapping HubStor product developments in late 2019
In the final months of 2019, the development team at HubStor released several major features into the HubStor platform that are worthy of a recapping, as follows: Box integration Multi-tenant SaaS applications typically offer their users little more than a recycle...
Migrate from EMC Centera to the HubStor cloud
If you’re reading this article, you, like many other EMC Centera customers, are looking for a way out. With Centera having reached end-of-life, you’re not alone. And, like many others, you’re probably finding that your options for moving off Centera are both complex...
Managing employee data: What to do with the data when an employee leaves
A generation ago, it wasn’t unusual for workers to stay with an organization from the time they first started working through to retirement. Today, employment longevity is no longer the norm, particularly for younger workers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
How to build mature data management processes in the cloud (Part 2)
Cloud data management is more than just moving data to the cloud. It’s the merger of backup, archive, disaster recovery, compliance, data governance, and data security on a framework that provides scalable data lakes for disparate types of content. It provides a...
The importance of managing data in today’s enterprise organizations (Part 1)
The rise of embedded devices, machine learning, high-resolution video and audio, automation, and machine-to-machine technologies has led to a rapid increase in the volume of data organizations are storing. The sheer volume of data is a growing concern for enterprises....
Introducing a new HubStor User Portal experience
Today, we’re eager to show you ’HubStor's new and improved User Portal! The updated user experience just went live, offering end users a better interface for accessing data in HubStor. Now available to all customers, the updated HubStor User Portal is a core feature...
Announcing pricing updates that benefit new and existing HubStor customers
I am happy to announce an improvement to HubStor’s consumption-based pricing model: We now exclude all storage operations and network egress costs from the HubStor markup calculation! Existing HubStor customers will notice the difference starting in their October...
The definitive guide to cloud storage pricing
It’s no secret the cost of ownership model for on-premises storage is nothing like the way enterprise cloud storage pricing works. What’s more, the process of untangling the pricing of cloud storage services can cause confusion and frustration. With all the talk about...
Optimizations for keeping your backups in HubStor
The cloud offers distinct advantages for enterprise backup and disaster recovery strategies, such as convenient offsite storage that is both economical and reliable. Part of our customer-centric approach is taking notice of different ways our customers are using...
One example of how HubStor delivers a better SaaS customer experience
If there’s one thing we can all agree on with enterprise software, it’s that upgrading to newer versions can be an arduous and time-consuming strain on resources. When you subscribe to a fully-managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, you rightfully expect to...
Assign geographic location to control where your data resides with HubStor
There’s a growing list of compliance regulations that outline increasingly stringent requirements for handling data, including the geographic location where data is stored. Advances in technology, including the adoption of cloud storage, along with greater awareness...
Cloud or tape for long-term data retention? It’s not that simple.
When it comes to long-term data retention, tape and cold cloud storage invariably come up as the best alternatives, though each one has its advantages and disadvantages. If all you need is to store massive amounts of data cheaply, and rarely require search or restore,...
Cloud data management: What is it and why should you care?
Humans have been managing data in one form or another since we began recording it. The standards for handling data have evolved along with the perspective of information as an asset. Today, we have sophisticated tools and systems at our disposal to meet complex needs...
Understanding and avoiding data loss in the cloud era
It wasn’t that long ago that accidentally saving over or deleting a file meant your work was probably gone. If your organization performed nightly backups, you might be able to retrieve the previous day’s version. However, if there was no backup the previous day, or...
HubStor improves customer experience with auto-upgrades
We’re constantly looking for ways to make HubStor better for our customers. With the latest version of HubStor, updates and upgrades just got easier. Customers now enjoy automatic upgrades for their tenant with the added flexibility of choosing the timing of the...
Why you need a segregated backup for Office 365 data
Over the past decade, the influx of productivity tools that include collaboration capabilities (Office 365, Google Drive, and others) has changed the way we work. Organizations, teams and individual workers all benefit from the flexibility that comes with the ability...