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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.

By Damon Garn • April 25, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • April 24, 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.

By Paul Crocetti • April 24, 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.

By Tim McCarthy • April 24, 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.

By Paul Crocetti • April 23, 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.

By Damon Garn • April 22, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • April 21, 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.

By Jacob Roundy • April 21, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • April 16, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • April 15, 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?

By Paul Kirvan • April 14, 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.

By Erin Sullivan, Katie Terrell Hanna • April 10, 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.

By Brien Posey , Erin Sullivan , Paul Crocetti • April 1, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • March 31, 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.

By Brien Posey • March 28, 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.

By Damon Garn • March 27, 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.

By Damon Garn • March 24, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • March 20, 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.

By Stuart Burns • March 19, 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.

By Robert Sheldon • March 14, 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.

By Tim McCarthy • March 12, 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.

By Stephen Bigelow, Paul Crocetti, Kinza Yasar • March 12, 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.

By Tim McCarthy • March 11, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • March 10, 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.

By Paul Kirvan • March 7, 2025