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Continuous Data Access for 1 SaaS Application Has Changed the Data Protection Conversation

August 20, 2026

Organizations of all sizes and in all verticals increasingly depend upon SaaS applications to have continuous data access in their day-to-day business operations. However, this SaaS model comes with a catch. Using SaaS applications and storing data in the cloud transfers responsibility for that underlying infrastructure to SaaS and cloud providers. This model works well until the SaaS application, the cloud storage it uses, or the connection between them becomes unavailable. HYCU R-Serve for iManage begins to address this emerging issue of continuous data access for one SaaS application, iManage. Rather than restoring data, R-Serve offers continuous data access to iManage data that HYCU R-Cloud already protects.

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HYCU aiR Repositions Backups as Operational Intelligence Assets

May 14, 2026

For decades, organizations viewed backup primarily as insurance. They protected data so they could recover after accidental deletion, corruption, hardware failures, or ransomware attacks. While this model remains necessary, it increasingly fails to address a broader challenge. They must also understand and govern their rapidly expanding SaaS and cloud data environments. HYCU aiR now enables backup to address these broader requirements.

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Backup Brick Wall Exists When Adopting VMware Alternatives

April 30, 2026

Organizations exploring alternatives to VMware now face an unexpected obstacle: backup. Cost pressures and hardware constraints may drive change. However, many discover their existing data protection strategies do not translate easily to new platforms. This gap introduces risk and complexity at the exact moment they seek flexibility and control. Even after identifying viable VMware alternatives and securing infrastructure, organizations often stall when they address backup integration. Their existing tools rely on tightly coupled VMware APIs and mature features that alternatives lack. As a result, backup becomes a critical barrier, forces redesigns, delays adoption, and undermines confidence in migration strategies.

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Ransomware Resilience Requires a Swift, Enterprise-wide Orchestrated Response

April 8, 2026

HYCU and Halcyon have teamed up to position HYCU R-Shield as the industry’s first enterprise-wide ransomware-resilient data protection solution. No longer do organizations need to individually manage multiple processes to detect and recover from ransomware. Rather, this integration enables organizations to orchestrate swift responses to ransomware attacks across their IT environment.

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Resilience, not Data Protection, Is What Businesses Actually Need; DCIG Presents LIVE April 21 in Frisco, TX

April 1, 2026

Today businesses need resilience. They must possess the ability to withstand, respond to, and rapidly recover from disruptions—whether operational, cyber-related, or infrastructure-driven. If these trends resonate with you—and they should—there’s an opportunity to explore them live and in person further. DCIG’s Principal Analyst, Jerome Wendt, will present these ideas in person at an upcoming live event hosted by Strategic Solutions. The event will begin about 45 minutes before the start of the Tuesday afternoon, April 21st, 2026, Frisco RoughRiders baseball game in Frisco, TX.

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4 Pain Points Driving Organizations Toward Modern Data Mobility

March 13, 2025

Many organizations now share a vision of how they want to manage data and applications across their modern IT infrastructure. No longer do organizations expect them to reside indefinitely in one location – whether on-premises or in the cloud. Rather, four pain points now drive organizations toward adopting modern data mobility to address them.

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Acquisition of Infinidat by Lenovo Examined by DCIG with Input from Grok and ChatGPT

January 23, 2025

Like almost every other organization in the world, DCIG has been engaging various AI tools to help in its analysis. DCIG by no means finds any AI tool either foolproof or 100% reliable. However, we find AI tools add value, some more so than others.

After evaluating multiple AI tools, DCIG has been trending toward primarily using ChatGPT and Grok to assist in its research. This week, considering the announcement that Lenovo plans to acquire Infinidat, we engaged ChatGPT and Grok to get their respective takes on this news.

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Kaseya’s Strategy Foretells Future of Enterprise IT

November 14, 2024

To understand where enterprise IT may end up, sometimes one must look at providers operating outside the enterprise market. Kaseya represents one such IT provider than can help all size organizations understand the future of IT. While Kaseya focuses on delivering IT products and services to managed service providers (MSPs), it has a more comprehensive strategy. At its DattoCon 2024 conference, Kaseya continued to deliver on its strategy that has ramifications beyond the MSPs it serves.

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