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Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
5 backup monitoring tools for better data protection
Do you know where your backups are? Check out this list of cross-platform backup monitoring tools that provide insight into backup performance and health.
Brien Posey • March 19, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Data lineage documentation matters for enterprise reliability
Data lineage is critical to enterprise success. Tracing a data asset's journey through pipelines helps improve data quality, speeds up corrections and builds trust in analytics.
Chris Tozzi • March 18, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
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.
Damon Garn • March 17, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Data lakehouse ransomware recovery strategies for AI
Attackers target the metadata your data intelligence platform needs to function. Understand where your AI risks are and what it takes to restore service after an incident.
Sean Kerner • March 14, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Build trust on a federated governance model
Follow this practical blueprint to adopt a modern data governance approach that aligns people, processes and platform to deliver measurable results from AI across the business.
Andy Hayler, Tom Walat • March 10, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
ITGC audit checklist: 6 controls you need to address
Assess the risks to your IT operations and company infrastructure with an IT general controls audit. Explore six controls to audit and key steps with this free checklist.
Paul Kirvan • March 10, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
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.
Damon Garn • March 5, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10 predictive analytics platforms for enterprises in 2026
The leading products have evolved into autonomous ecosystems that use AI agents and natural language to accommodate users at every skill level and accelerate decision-making.
George Lawton • March 5, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
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.
Brien Posey • March 3, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Why you should be using backup monitoring software
To protect data, creating backups is not enough anymore. Backup monitoring software can help make sure those backups are ready to use, compliant with regulations and meeting SLAs.
Brien Posey • Feb. 26, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Build a business intelligence team to optimize data use
Leaders who want to protect data investments must build a strategic business intelligence team with five core roles: the expert, architect, designer, analyst and data steward.
Donald Farmer • Feb. 25, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How cyber insurance requirements reshape backup architecture
From immutable backups to air-gapped copies, these requirements reflect the growing need for organizations to prove they can recover from an incident -- or risk losing coverage.
Sean Kerner • Feb. 24, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Experts share practices to overcome AI data readiness
Enterprise AI ambitions can stumble without strong data fundamentals. Here's how to pick, organize and maintain data so systems behave reliably and projects move to production.
Mary Pratt • Feb. 20, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
6 ways to use AI in IT disaster recovery
AI is everywhere these days, and disaster recovery is no different. IT teams can use AI to mitigate, prevent and recover from disruptions faster than traditional methods.
Stuart Burns • Feb. 19, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Should you use data backups to train AI models?
AI models must be trained on high quality, complete data. A lot of it. Backups are a treasure trove of this type of data, but are they ready to train AI?
Jacob Roundy • Feb. 19, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to secure sensitive data when offboarding employees
Establish a multi-phased approach that turns a risky situation into a managed process with several departments working in coordination to ensure a smooth exit.
Kevin Beaver • Feb. 18, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to cut data loss risks when employees leave
How an employee leaves influences what data they might take. Organizations can implement several practical methods to protect code, client information, and other assets.
Mary Pratt • Feb. 13, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
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.
Sean Kerner • Feb. 12, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
6 essential big data best practices for businesses
These best practices can help data leaders create an effective big data strategy that meets an organization's analytics needs and delivers valuable business benefits.
Donald Farmer • Feb. 12, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Residual access failures put data at risk
Stop breaches that start with orphaned accounts. This guide identifies offboarding weak spots and gives leaders a practical checklist to close gaps fast and prove compliance.
Kevin Beaver • Feb. 10, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
9 metadata management standards that guide success
Organizations looking to implement metadata management can choose from existing standards that support archiving, sciences, finance and other digital resources.
Donald Farmer • Feb. 2, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Ways to protect data platforms from turnover risk
Departing data employees can take valuable Institutional knowledge. Protect it with consistent documentation, a central repository and tested backups to keep systems stable.
Sean Kerner • Jan. 30, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
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.
Sean Kerner • Jan. 30, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Choose an enterprise backup architecture that fits risk
Weigh the trade‑offs among on‑premises, backup as a service and hybrid backup, and use a clear framework to choose the approach that fits your organization.
Sean Kerner • Jan. 30, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to prevent data loss: 4 strategies for better data protection
Preventing data loss doesn't start and end with better data backups. An organization's culture, IT strategy and choice of tools all play important roles.
Damon Garn and Brien Posey • Jan. 29, 2026
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