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The new standards for cyber-resilient backup

Learn about the role of backup resilience as a frontline security control and how IT leaders can prepare their organizations to mitigate risk and meet compliance needs.

Master cloud backup costs for more predictable IT spending

Predictable cloud backup spending strengthens strategic IT planning by aligning cost optimization with data resilience rather than treating them as competing priorities.

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Implement backup reporting for improved data governance

Data visibility and governance are more important than ever in 2026. Reporting can help ensure that your organization understands what it has in its data backups.

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Magnetic tape backup eases storage cost and capacity concerns

Data growth can strain already thin budgets. Today's LTO-10 tapes provide dense capacity at lower costs than cloud storage that meet your organization's backup and recovery goals.

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    What is a data retention policy?

    In business settings, data retention is a concept that encompasses all processes for storing and preserving data, as well as the specific time periods and policies businesses enforce that determine how and for how long data should be retained.

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    SaaS shared responsibility model: What vendors don't cover

    Don't let your organization lose cloud data to misplaced trust and thin vendor protections. Learn what providers don't cover and how to build backups that pass audits.

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    Backup environment evaluation: Verify before you buy

    As backups move toward integrated data protection, this guide explains why recovery speed, environment‑wide visibility and maturing AI features should guide platform choices.

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