Data Protection

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By Lisa Schmeiser • Oct. 27, 2026

Q&A: Why successful backups don’t guarantee recovery

Organizations often find recovery gaps only after an outage. Dependency management and realistic testing help determine whether critical services can be restored when trouble hits.

By Ana Salom-Boira • Oct. 20, 2026

Cyber recovery plans must cover lost access, not just data

Cyberattacks on Springfield Public Schools and Everett City Hall show what it takes to keep operating when an intrusion cuts off access to core systems.

By Scott Thompson • Sept. 11, 2026

How to improve resiliency in legacy IT environments

Older technology cannot be swapped out quickly due to costs and complexity, but organizations can strengthen recovery capabilities while modernization efforts continue.

By Mary Pratt • Sept. 4, 2026

Business resilience vs. business continuity: Key differences

Business continuity and resilience go hand in hand and play a role in an organization's disaster recovery plan. Essentially, business continuity is needed to achieve resilience.

By Paul Kirvan , Rosa Heaton • July 29, 2026

Modern IT threats demand continuous resilience

Continuous resilience enables organizations to anticipate, withstand and recover from disruption. Modernize today to reduce operational risk and improve business agility.

By Damon Garn • July 28, 2026

How AI is changing data protection

There's no doubt that recent AI developments have affected data protection. IT leaders must not only stay on top of these changes but also prepare for what's next.

By Sean Kerner • July 21, 2026

4 AI incidents that harmed resilience efforts

AI can be a helpful tool when users respect its limitations and verify what it claims to be fact. If not, the impact on the organization can be catastrophic.

By Stuart Burns • July 10, 2026

The board-level economics of downtime

Downtime is an organization-wide issue. Leaders who treat resilience as a strategic capability are better positioned to navigate future operational, cyber and market disruptions.

By Damon Garn • July 7, 2026

Treat HIPAA backup rules as infrastructure, not decorations

Healthcare backup systems designed for recovery and retrofitted for HIPAA produce audit gaps. Encryption, access logging and retention belong in the architecture from the start.

By Mark Spencer • June 29, 2026

Geopolitics reshape data protection plans

Business and technology leaders are revising their data protection plans as global conflicts challenge current resilience and risk management plans.

By John Moore • June 26, 2026

Isolated recovery environments are critical for modern DR

There is no room for error in disaster recovery, especially when it comes to backups. To ensure you’re recovering from a clean backup, consider an isolated recovery environment.

By Brien Posey • June 25, 2026

SLAs for disaster recovery: Free template and guide

Download our free template to create a service-level agreement with the performance and response time requirements that disaster recovery plans demand.

By Paul Kirvan • June 16, 2026

What zero-trust data protection means for business

Implementing zero trust at the network level isn’t enough in today’s digital landscape, where critical business data is stored across platforms, applications and devices.

By Jacob Roundy • June 9, 2026

Why backup alone doesn’t guarantee cloud recovery readiness

Successful backup jobs can still leave dependency and configuration gaps, making orchestration and recovery testing critical for restoring cloud services and SaaS apps.

By Sean Kerner • June 5, 2026

The data backup confidence gap: Are you really recovery ready?

False confidence in data backups is a growing issue. IT leadership must ensure that recovery goals match backup realities to avoid extended downtime and loss of customer trust.

By Jacob Roundy • June 4, 2026

Verify backup data integrity to reduce recovery risks

Validation is an essential part of data backups. Test and confirm that your backup data is intact and usable now, rather than discovering problems during a recovery.

By Sean Kerner • May 29, 2026

Choosing the right AWS disaster recovery strategy in 2026

Organizations unprepared for outages often have a disaster recovery plan that does not match their business needs. These metrics can help leaders choose the best AWS strategy.

By Wisdom Ekpotu • May 29, 2026

Compare AI risk management frameworks from NIST and beyond

While NIST is the most widely used, it's just one of the frameworks available today that can help manage the risks associated with AI.

By Paul Kirvan • May 28, 2026

AI tools are making resilience an enterprise-wide discipline

AI tools that support resilience at the business unit level can enable more personnel across an organization to engage in disaster recovery efforts.

By Damon Garn • May 21, 2026

HYCU releases aiR intelligence layer to interrogate backups

The vendor is harnessing the data already stored in HYCU R-Cloud backups to provide users with insights and protect against potential risks.

By Erin Sullivan • May 14, 2026

How to plan business continuity activities, with a template

Many activities comprise a business continuity plan. The better they are managed, the more successful the overall business continuity program will be.

By Paul Kirvan • May 14, 2026

AI orchestration modernizes approaches to disaster recovery

As ransomware gets more dangerous and infrastructure grows more complex, AI-assisted DR can shorten recovery time by improving readiness and decision-making under pressure.

By George Lawton • May 13, 2026

VeeamON 2026 updates target AI trust, resilience

As agentic AI is on the rise, the vendor focused its flagship event on the convergence of AI, trust and data security.

By Erin Sullivan • May 12, 2026

Resilience strategies for an AI-powered era

Resilience is not an optional feature of an AI strategy, it should be the foundation. Incorporate risk mitigation early on to scale AI securely while keeping up with competition.

By Damon Garn • May 7, 2026