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Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
8 ways to use AI for data backup
Recognize AI-based data backups as a strategic imperative that propels your IT team forward by protecting critical business assets while providing compliance and cost optimization.
Damon Garn • Jan. 27, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Is cloud backup repatriation right for your organization?
More and more organizations are making the move to bring backup data back on-site, but the cloud is still a widely-used resource. Is repatriation in the cards for you?
Stuart Burns • Jan. 20, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to avoid data loss in a natural disaster
Protection from environmental disruptions requires more than simple backups. This guide shows how fortified infrastructure, robust cloud strategy and risk analysis ensure uptime.
Paul Kirvan • Jan. 15, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How extreme weather events affect data
As severe weather increases worldwide, organizations must understand the risks to on- and off-premises data and take steps to prevent outages and loss.
Paul Kirvan • Jan. 13, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Use the 3-2-1-1-0 rule for better backups
The 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule addresses modern data protection requirements, such as ransomware protection and cloud backup. Find out how it builds on the 3-2-1 rule in this tip.
Brien Posey • Jan. 12, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Data architecture vs. information architecture: How they differ
Data architecture and information architecture are distinct but related disciplines that work in tandem to support an enterprise's data and business strategies.
Rick Sherman • Dec. 23, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How AI changes data governance roles and responsibilities
Data governance is a team effort, though recent AI developments have caused data and AI teams to converge. As a result, organizations have created new roles in these teams.
George Lawton • Dec. 23, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10 essential roles for a data management team in 2026
These 10 essential data management roles help leaders design teams that support governance, scale and trusted analytics across modern enterprise data environments.
Chris Foot • Dec. 19, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to build a data catalog: 10 key steps
A data catalog helps business and analytics users explore data assets, find relevant data and understand what it means. Here are 10 important steps for building one.
Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. • Dec. 16, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Key takeaways from Commvault Shift 2025
The vendor is positioning itself to face rising data protection challenges, such as identity resilience and fragmented multi-cloud strategies.
Jon Brown • Dec. 8, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10 dashboard design principles and best practices
Dashboards are a key tool for delivering analytics data to business users. Here's how BI teams can design effective dashboards to help drive informed decision-making.
George Lawton • Nov. 26, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How AI governance manages risk at scale for enterprises
Effective oversight of AI systems requires more than technology. It relies on defined roles, coordinated risk protocols and tight collaboration across data and model teams.
Kashyap Kompella • Oct. 23, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Master these skills to get the right data scientist role
Data science offers many professional opportunities. Balance education and experience to present yourself as an adaptable and data-savvy candidate.
Jacob Roundy • Oct. 15, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
6 essential data engineer skills for modern data environments
As AI automates more tasks handled by data engineers, the role is shifting from pipeline building to strategic skills that keep modern architectures adaptable.
Chris Tozzi • Oct. 15, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10 data governance challenges that can sink data operations
No organization can successfully use data without data governance. Address 10 data governance challenges to avoid financial loss, derailed operations and reputation damage.
Robert Sheldon • Oct. 15, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to deploy Data Duplication on Windows Server
Data deduplication is necessary to stay ahead of storage demands and maintain available space. Windows Server Data Deduplication is one tool that can help.
Damon Garn • Oct. 7, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Best practices for using simulation models in business
Simulation models provide businesses with a framework for forecasting and strategy through tested practices in finance, healthcare and logistics.
Donald Farmer • Oct. 1, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
5 knowledge graph use cases in data fabric architecture
Knowledge graphs in data fabrics enable semantic layers, cross-domain modeling, operational intelligence, enterprise search and intelligent metadata management.
Robert Sheldon • Sept. 23, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What is data lineage? Techniques, best practices and tools
Organizations can strengthen data governance by mapping data lineage across systems. Learn how tools help to simplify tracking, compliance and lifecycle visibility.
Jacob Roundy • Sept. 23, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to use rsync to streamline centralized backups
The Linux rsync utility is a powerful tool in the hands of a knowledgeable administrator. Learn how an organization might use rsync for backups with this step-by-step tutorial.
Damon Garn • Sept. 23, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
5 steps for sustainable data management
Data management practices that embrace sustainability principles can streamline data processes, improve data protection and reduce energy consumption.
George Lawton • Sept. 8, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to safely and securely back up data
It's not just about ransomware. Less publicized threats like system misconfigurations, hardware and software failures, and user errors dictate a better approach to data backup.
Kathleen Richards • Sept. 5, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Inline deduplication vs. post-processing deduplication
Will inline or post-processing deduplication work better for your data protection strategy? Learn more about each method with this tip.
Erin Sullivan, Dave Raffo • Sept. 3, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10-step guide for testing a backup and recovery plan
Failure is not an option when it comes to backing up data and recovering it if disaster strikes. Data backup testing can pinpoint potential problems in the recovery process.
Chris Tozzi • Aug. 27, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Enterprise data governance: Frameworks and best practices
Data backup and recovery depend on a solid governance framework that includes procedures for data management, stewardship, quality monitoring, protection, security and compliance.
Brian Eastwood • Aug. 25, 2025
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