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News
01 Dec 2021
Dell extends Cyber Recovery ransomware protection to AWS
Dell EMC's PowerProtect Cyber Recovery launched in AWS Marketplace, providing customers with a way to isolate their data in AWS-based storage instead of on premises. Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2021
Zerto launches DR orchestration tool for AWS EC2
The new Zerto In-Cloud is standalone DR automation and orchestration software that uses EBS snapshots and AWS APIs instead of Zerto's continuous data protection technology. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Jun 2025
Best practices for VoIP disaster recovery
VoIP technology can provide communications support in a crisis. Disaster recovery teams must protect VoIP systems just as you would any server holding mission-critical information. Continue Reading
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Definition
20 Jun 2025
What is a pandemic plan?
A pandemic plan is a documented strategy for how an organization plans to provide essential services when there is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Jun 2025
Business continuity failures: 5 real-world examples to study
Business continuity failures are costly and can significantly harm a company's reputation. These five high-profile examples demonstrate what can go wrong when a plan fails. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Jun 2025
6 DRaaS risks to assess and mitigate
Cloud DR is a popular strategy today, but not exactly invulnerable to threats. Assess the risks associated with DRaaS and learn to mitigate them before a crisis strikes. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Jun 2025
What is change control?
Change control is a systematic approach that includes the various steps needed to process changes made to a product or system. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2025
Rubrik expands cloud databases and Oracle Cloud protection
Backup vendor Rubrik will protect numerous new workloads in the platform this year, but cybersecurity experts warn customers to continue prepping for threats. Continue Reading
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Tip
02 Jun 2025
Organizational vs. operational resilience
Organizational and operational resilience are two critical components of BCDR. Learn the differences between the two and how to establish them for peak resilience. Continue Reading
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Definition
30 May 2025
What is risk mitigation?
Risk mitigation is a strategy that helps businesses prepare for disasters and other issues and decrease the effects of threats they face. Continue Reading
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Tip
29 May 2025
8 data sanitization software options for businesses
These eight data sanitization software options can help backup administrators protect sensitive information, ease compliance and strengthen data security. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 May 2025
Data center power outage causes and how to prevent them
Mitigating data center power outages is crucial for business survival. Learn the strategies today's organizations use to safeguard their critical infrastructure from disruptions. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 May 2025
Clear, Purge, Destroy: NIST media sanitization 101
NIST SP 800-88 outlines how to responsibly destroy data and keep confidential information out of the wrong hands. Learn more about the NIST guidelines for media sanitization here. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 May 2025
High availability and resiliency are vital to a DR strategy
Together, high availability and resiliency can prepare an organization for potential disruptions. Find out how these metrics work in disaster recovery. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 May 2025
The importance of a data destruction policy
Data destruction policies increase backup efficiency, ease data management and help organizations meet compliance requirements for data storage. Continue Reading
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Definition
12 May 2025
What is an emergency notification system?
An emergency notification system is an automated approach to crisis communications that contacts people within an organization and distributes important information during a disruption. Continue Reading
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Definition
12 May 2025
What is image-based backup?
Image-based backup creates a copy of an operating system (OS) and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 May 2025
What is data recovery?
Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible. Continue Reading
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News
02 May 2025
Veeam CEO discusses data resilience, VMware migrations, IPO
In this Q&A, Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran speaks to the customer pain point of VMware migrations, the potential for acquisitions and whether tariffs have affected Veeam's business. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Apr 2025
10 ways to reduce your MTTR
Mean time to repair is a critical metric for BCDR professionals. Learn how to calculate and reduce MTTR with this tip. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Apr 2025
7 ways to improve your ransomware backup strategy
It's time to review your strategy for ransomware backup and recovery. Continue Reading
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Tip
25 Apr 2025
The road to carbon neutrality is paved with efficient backups
Backups are an unavoidable aspect of IT that can contribute to a larger carbon footprint. Learn how your business can transition to a more carbon-neutral backup strategy here. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Apr 2025
Use a business impact analysis questionnaire to get critical data
The quality of the business impact analysis questionnaire will determine how well prepared your organization is for a disaster. Get started with some tips and sample questions. Continue Reading
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News
24 Apr 2025
IT pros share disaster preparedness, VMware migration plans
IT pros at VeeamON shared disaster preparedness strategies, including DR planning, using immutable storage and moving away from VMware. Continue Reading
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News
24 Apr 2025
Cyber resilience now a top priority for backup platforms
The latest updates to backup platforms such as HYCU, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik and Keepit bolster cyber resilience in both technology and customer readiness. Continue Reading
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News
23 Apr 2025
Veeam data resilience strategy evolves beyond tech releases
Veeam's releases at its annual user conference included technology-specific backup products and a process-focused framework for increasing resilience. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Apr 2025
The ultimate guide to backup deduplication
Backup deduplication can reduce active storage space consumption, decrease backup job times and increase the overall efficiency of a storage infrastructure. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Apr 2025
Business continuity roles and responsibilities
Business continuity is a vital part of an organization's recovery strategy. Make sure that these BC roles and responsibilities are accounted for when crisis strikes. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Apr 2025
The 2 types of climate risk and how DR teams can prepare
Understanding the two types of climate risk and how to plan for them can help organizations better prepare for disasters and improve their impact on the environment. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Apr 2025
Use backup and business continuity planning to protect data
The data backup strategies and habits you enact during normal business hours might be the difference between maintaining business continuity and a lengthy, difficult recovery. Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Apr 2025
Strengthen a business continuity plan with testing exercises
Conduct a business continuity exercise to better understand your organization's BC plan. After the exercise, use our free after-action report template to review how it went. Continue Reading
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Tip
14 Apr 2025
Backup scheduling best practices to ensure availability
For daily work files, databases and mission-critical systems and data, the more frequent the backup, the better. But how often should you back up all your data? Continue Reading
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Definition
10 Apr 2025
What is a business continuity policy?
A business continuity policy is the set of standards and guidelines an organization enforces to ensure resilience and proper risk management. Continue Reading
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Tip
01 Apr 2025
Backup retention policy best practices: A guide with template
It's critical for an organization to know what data it needs to retain and where to store it. Create a backup retention policy with this free template. Continue Reading
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Tip
31 Mar 2025
10 multi-cloud backup considerations for admins
Using a multi-cloud data backup strategy can be good for data protection, but make sure that the providers are a good fit for your business first. Continue Reading
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Answer
28 Mar 2025
Business impact analysis vs. risk assessment explained
Do you know the difference between a business impact analysis and risk assessment? Find out how they differ and why you need to perform both here. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Mar 2025
Assess and manage the risks of using AI for business
Legal ramifications, public image crises and misleading information are some of the disastrous consequences of incorrectly using AI. If you don't have a policy for managing AI risks, now is the time. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Mar 2025
7 areas where AI can support disaster response
Responding to a disaster requires IT teams to move quickly, with no room for error. Find out how AI-based technology can help before, during and after a crisis. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Mar 2025
IT risk assessment template (with free download)
Risk assessments are a critical part of a disaster recovery plan. Find out how to prepare a risk assessment, then download our included free template to create one. Continue Reading
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Tip
19 Mar 2025
SaaS disaster recovery best practices
Businesses that use SaaS applications hand off some responsibilities of managing that data, but disaster recovery is not one of them. Make sure you have a recovery plan in place. Continue Reading
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Tip
14 Mar 2025
Compare SaaS data retention policies from 5 major providers
How long is your SaaS platform keeping your data? Learn how these five popular vendors handle data retention. Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2025
Druva founder and CEO talks Azure integration, IPO and AI
In this Q&A, Druva founder and CEO Jaspreet Singh talks about the SaaS platform's latest integration with Azure, if an IPO is in the future and the Dru AI copilots. Continue Reading
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Definition
12 Mar 2025
What is a disaster recovery plan (DRP)?
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented, structured approach that describes how an organization can quickly resume operations after an unplanned incident. Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2025
Druva debuts fully integrated support for Microsoft Azure
Druva's SaaS platform expands beyond AWS with new embedded support for Microsoft Azure storage workload backups after more than a decade of AWS exclusivity. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Mar 2025
How to assess pandemic risk in 2025
Businesses learned a lot about disaster recovery and risk from COVID-19. The challenge today is to not forget those lessons or become negligent with future pandemics. Continue Reading
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Tip
07 Mar 2025
7 data sanitization techniques for better data protection
Data sanitization is an essential aspect of data protection. Good data sanitization practices can help ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information. Continue Reading
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Answer
04 Mar 2025
The ultimate guide to SaaS backup
Software-as-a-service applications are everywhere these days. But do you know where your SaaS backups are? Continue Reading
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News
04 Mar 2025
Rubrik expands cloud, SaaS and database protection services
Backup and recovery for Microsoft Identity services, alongside new offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift, come to Rubrik's platform. Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2025
Backup vendor Veeam gets an equity stake from Microsoft
Veeam plans deeper AI integrations in Microsoft 365 and other Azure services through Microsoft equity investment and expanded partnership. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Feb 2025
How to manage and mitigate reputational risk
Believe it or not, there are actually several reasons for a business to care about its reputation. Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2025
Arctera CEO: Focus is on new capabilities for backup products
Data backup vendor Arctera, which consists of former Veritas businesses, will continue to sell these products separately as it looks to improve and expand its offerings. Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2025
New StorPool KVM disaster recovery service aids adoption
New Disaster Recovery Engine service by StorPool Storage enables automated snapshot and metadata recovery of KVMs in open source cloud platforms. Continue Reading
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Answer
10 Feb 2025
3 Best Practices to Protect Backups from Ransomware
Backing up data is one way to guard against threats such as ransomware, but attacks designed to infect backups can compromise data protection efforts. Continue Reading
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Tip
06 Feb 2025
People-centered business continuity is critical in the age of AI
Recent crises such as the CrowdStrike outages and California wildfires show why people-centered business continuity is crucial. Learn how to shift the focus to people here. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Feb 2025
How to assess and manage geopolitical risk
Geopolitical risks are often linked to international political, social and economic activities. Set policies for global business to better identify risks before they happen. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2025
Cohesity exec: Gaia will 'unlock' data for AI applications
In this Q&A, Cohesity's Greg Statton explains how the Gaia offering connects data and AI services, with more capabilities coming following the acquisition of Veritas last year. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2025
Synology launches enterprise push with a backup appliance
Synology attempts to court the enterprise IT market with the launch of ActiveProtect, a new backup appliance, and plans to expand storage offerings later this year. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Jan 2025
6 top business continuity certifications to consider in 2025
Organizations can bolster and validate the expertise of their IT teams with a variety of certifications. There are several options aimed at business continuity professionals. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jan 2025
Commvault automates Microsoft Active Directory reforestation
Commvault's latest offering enables the Microsoft AD forest to sprout back from disasters or ransomware through new automation and visualization tools. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
30 Dec 2024
How to use rsync and scp for data protection
The rsync and scp tools are available to Linux, macOS and Windows users. These two simple utilities have several use cases for disaster recovery and data protection. Continue Reading
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Opinion
20 Dec 2024
Can Cohesity and Veritas define data protection's future?
Moving forward, the combined firm's leadership will be under pressure to make good on its long-term vision. Continue Reading
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Tip
18 Dec 2024
Business continuity vs. emergency management
There is overlap between business continuity and emergency management, but don't confuse the two. They are separate but equally critical disaster recovery practices. Continue Reading
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Tip
17 Dec 2024
How to build and maintain a reliable backup infrastructure
A backup infrastructure is critical to long-term data protection and rapid recoveries. As environments become more complex, maintaining a strong infrastructure can be difficult. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Dec 2024
Acquisitions defined enterprise backup market in 2024
From massive acquisitions to an IPO, major enterprise backup vendors spent much of 2024 consolidating the market. Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Dec 2024
What is a business continuity plan audit and how do you create one?
A business continuity plan audit is a formalized method for evaluating how business continuity processes are being managed. Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Dec 2024
Disaster recovery glossary: 27 terms to know
Creating a disaster recovery plan is challenging, but critical for long-term business success. DR teams and IT can benefit from understanding these 27 terms. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Dec 2024
Free network disaster recovery plan template and guide
Proper network disaster recovery planning can mean the difference between a brief disruption and extensive downtime. Download our free template to get started building a plan. Continue Reading
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News
10 Dec 2024
Cohesity completes acquisition of Veritas
The combined Cohesity company boasts more than 12,000 customers and promises support for existing Veritas products. Arctera, a Veritas spinoff, launches in the wake of the merger. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
09 Dec 2024
How to use Time Machine to back up your Mac
Mac Time Machine backup is a useful tool for small businesses. It does not support cloud targets, but has a user-friendly interface and simple scheduling options for basic backups. Continue Reading
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News
05 Dec 2024
Rubrik expands into AWS, GenAI management
Rubrik customers can now integrate their backup data into AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI with the new Annapurna API service. The vendor is also expanding its backup services for AWS. Continue Reading
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Tip
04 Dec 2024
Why data backup is important
Not every organization has a backup infrastructure in place. There are several reasons why that is a mistake, including recovery costs and rising threats to critical data. Continue Reading
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News
26 Nov 2024
Commvault's Clumio Backtrack manages AWS versioning for S3
Clumio offers management tools for AWS S3 versioning backups with granular recovery for billions of objects in its first release under the Commvault banner. Continue Reading
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Definition
25 Nov 2024
3-2-1 backup strategy explained: Is it effective?
The 3-2-1 backup strategy is a time-tested data protection and recovery methodology for ensuring that data is protected adequately and up-to-date backup copies of the data are available when needed. Continue Reading
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News
14 Nov 2024
Arctera emerges as spinoff from Veritas-Cohesity merger
Three separate backup and storage offerings from Veritas will continue development under the name Arctera. One analyst believes the spinoff will be a boon for SMB customers. Continue Reading
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Tip
29 Oct 2024
When to use a mirrored site disaster recovery
Mirrored disaster recovery sites are a good fit for businesses that require rapid failover and have the right resources to build a duplicate data center. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
28 Oct 2024
How to use the duplicity backup tool
Open source tool duplicity can help sys admins manage many file servers, as well as back up and restore large amounts of data. Learn how to install, run and troubleshoot duplicity. Continue Reading
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Tip
25 Oct 2024
4 cloud disaster recovery best practices
The cloud is a widely implemented technology for flexible and reliable disaster recovery. Businesses can optimize a cloud DR strategy with these four best practices. Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2024
Arcserve prioritizes cloud choice with UDP platform update
Data backup specialist Arcserve is expanding the data resilience capabilities of its flagship platform with Azure support, multi-replication and malware detection from Microsoft. Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2024
Cohesity's generative AI Gaia gets keyword search tool
A new search, questioning and data visibility feature arrives in Cohesity's generative AI Gaia with Data Explore. The update also expands Gaia's support for file storage systems. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
21 Oct 2024
Get started with the Kopia backup tool
Backup applications have evolved for increased speed, flexibility and new storage locations. Open source tool Kopia is one option backup admins might consider. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Oct 2024
6 disaster recovery site requirements for businesses
Building a disaster recovery site provides organizations with a high degree of control over the facility. It also makes them responsible for several critical requirements. Continue Reading
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News
10 Oct 2024
Eon makes cloud backups available across major hyperscalers
Cloud backup vendor Eon, which emerged from stealth earlier this month, offers a platform for hyperscaler migrations with features like granular restores and automated tagging. Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2024
Commvault integrates recent acquisitions into portfolio
At its Shift conference this week, Commvault will highlight new functionality for Commvault Cloud that stems from its Appranix and Clumio buys and bolsters offerings beyond Azure. Continue Reading
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Tip
02 Oct 2024
4 open source emergency management tools for DR teams
Emergency management can be a hectic and expensive process. Open source tools can help keep costs down and pool information from a wide array of resources. Continue Reading
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Tip
02 Oct 2024
How to improve backup performance
Achieving and maintaining optimal backup performance is a continuous process that requires a proactive approach to monitoring, analysis and optimization. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Sep 2024
6 open source data recovery software options to consider
Data loss can plague just about every organization, and costs of recovery can add up. Open source software tools provide a reliable, cost-effective recovery option. Continue Reading
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News
27 Sep 2024
Veeam acquisition of Alcion supports push into as-a-service, AI
Veeam embarks on the acquisition path again with its purchase of Alcion. The deal brings several employees who specialize in AI and as-a-service knowledge. Continue Reading
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News
26 Sep 2024
Commvault acquisition of Clumio for S3 speaks volumes
Commvault's acquisition of Clumio doesn't wade into billion-dollar territory, but it does illustrate some trends happening in the cloud data protection and backup markets. Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2024
SIOS focuses on failovers in LifeKeeper for Linux update
SIOS updates LifeKeeper for Linux in a new version that adds to its high-availability features and simplifies management and security privileges through its console. Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Sep 2024
What is a business continuity plan (BCP)?
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that consists of the critical information an organization needs to continue operating during an unplanned event. Continue Reading
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Tip
20 Sep 2024
Use network fault monitoring to prevent malfunctions
Network fault monitoring systems are essential tools to optimize network performance and availability. They are also key components of proactive disaster recovery. Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2024
Druva's Dru Investigate guards backup data from cyberattacks
The latest generative AI service from Druva, Dru Investigate, adds a new copilot option to its backup software that identifies anomalies and offers remediation suggestions. Continue Reading
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News
10 Sep 2024
Google Cloud Backup service expands with vault offering
The latest updates to Google Cloud's backup and recovery offering adds immutable and invisible data vaults for VMs and databases, alongside other features. Continue Reading
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News
06 Sep 2024
In $1.9B deal, Salesforce buys data backup company Own
In the lead-up to its annual user conference, Salesforce buys Own Company for $1.9 billion, its second acquisition of the week and its third for 2024. Continue Reading
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Tip
26 Aug 2024
Prepare your small business for ransomware attacks
Ransomware is a threat to all organizations, but small businesses are particularly at risk. Mitigation efforts and recovery planning are key to keep smaller companies in business. Continue Reading
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Tip
19 Aug 2024
Example disaster recovery plan for small businesses
Small businesses make significant investments in IT infrastructure. They must protect those investments from unplanned and potentially destructive events with a DR plan. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Aug 2024
What Veeam's backup support of Proxmox means for SMBs
Proxmox has officially entered the virtualization platform conversation. The addition of Veeam backup support provides smaller organizations an alternative to pricier VMware tools. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Aug 2024
6 business continuity plan software providers to know
Business continuity planning software can help organizations create a plan that automates time-consuming processes and accounts for critical aspects such as regulatory compliance. Continue Reading
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News
07 Aug 2024
Swedish investment firm takes majority stake in Acronis
EQT buys a majority stake in Acronis but will likely be hands off for the foreseeable future, according to Acronis CEO Ezequiel Steiner. The deal is expected to close next year. Continue Reading
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News
07 Aug 2024
Microsoft 365 Backup now GA with API for SaaS recovery
New offerings from Microsoft provide a cloud backup and recovery service for its popular Microsoft 365 with an API enabling other backup platforms to add the service. Continue Reading
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News
05 Aug 2024
GenAI lags traditional AI and ML for enterprise data backup
Enterprises are using AI and ML technologies with their backups for classification or security over recent generative AI tools like chatbots, industry analysts say. Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2024
Clumio CEO Rick Underwood: Backup remains company focus
Rick Underwood, appointed CEO at Clumio in June, sees data management and machine learning technologies as key for the company's backup software outside GenAI hype in this Q&A. Continue Reading