Greg Tevis

Recent Posts

Have You Planned for Scalability in Your Backup Infrastructure?  Is Your Backup Infrastructure Truly Scalable?  If Not, It Could Cost You.

IT leaders are always looking to control costs and eliminate risks. But if you don’t plan strategically and choose the right solutions, it can be easy for things to get out of control, especially...

April 20, 2022

Legacy Challenges

Security Practices for Backing Up Data in the Cloud

Many organizations deploy workloads in the cloud or back up data to the cloud — often without giving much thought to security risks like:

January 19, 2022

Cloud Backup

Audit Readiness for Enterprise Backup

Can You Prove What’s Happening in Your Backup Environment? Most businesses are bound by at least one set of IT compliance requirements, such as FISMA, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, or SOX. That makes IT...

September 14, 2021

Operational Complexity

CTO Q&A: Containment by Design for Secure Backup Data Protection

It seems like there’s a new headline every week about a big security breach or ransomware attack that has exposed sensitive data or crippled a company’s operations — further proving the case for...

July 20, 2021

Cyber Security

Extending IBM Spectrum Protect With Intelligent Data Protection

With its robust and scalable Spectrum Protect solution, IBM has applied its industry-leading expertise and skills to address today’s most pressing enterprise backup challenges. Over the years, the...

May 18, 2021

Modernization

How to Register a Client with the Compass Commander Interface

One of the many data protection challenges facing companies today is the deployment, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of software to protect various systems and applications. Cobalt Iron...

March 4, 2021

Smart Data Protection

How comprehensive backup reporting features reduce risk

Without accurate visibility into their data protection operations, organizations struggle to know what’s really going on with their workloads. Inaccurate or incomplete reporting is not only an...

January 14, 2021

Features

Multitenant Backup Operations Management with Compass® Commander

Managing their diverse data protection environments is an increasing challenge for organizations. It’s not uncommon to find upwards of four or more products being used to manage the servers,...

January 7, 2021

Compass Features

Backup Is Great, But Recovery Is Everything

Crippling ransomware attacks like the one that hit Garmin over the summer are becoming an all-too-common occurrence as cybercriminals get ever bolder. In Garmin’s case, the attack caused a worldwide...

December 10, 2020

Smart Data Protection

Going Way Beyond Reports: How Using Backup Analytics Saves Time and Money

Do you talk about analytics in your backup environment? Just the term "analytics" can mean different things to different people, and its meaning can vary depending on your role. Sometimes, people...

October 2, 2020

Analytics