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The ultimate guide to SaaS backup

Software-as-a-service applications are everywhere these days. But do you know where your SaaS backups are?

By Stuart Burns • March 4, 2025

Rubrik expands cloud, SaaS and database protection services

Backup and recovery for Microsoft Identity services, alongside new offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift, come to Rubrik's platform.

By Tim McCarthy • March 4, 2025

Backup vendor Veeam gets an equity stake from Microsoft

Veeam plans deeper AI integrations in Microsoft 365 and other Azure services through Microsoft equity investment and expanded partnership.

By Tim McCarthy • Feb. 25, 2025

How to manage and mitigate reputational risk

Believe it or not, there are actually several reasons for a business to care about its reputation.

By Paul Kirvan • Feb. 21, 2025

Arctera CEO: Focus is on new capabilities for backup products

Data backup vendor Arctera, which consists of former Veritas businesses, will continue to sell these products separately as it looks to improve and expand its offerings.

By Tim McCarthy • Feb. 12, 2025

New StorPool KVM disaster recovery service aids adoption

New Disaster Recovery Engine service by StorPool Storage enables automated snapshot and metadata recovery of KVMs in open source cloud platforms.

By Tim McCarthy • Feb. 11, 2025

3 Best Practices to Protect Backups from Ransomware

Backing up data is one way to guard against threats such as ransomware, but attacks designed to infect backups can compromise data protection efforts.

By Mitch Lewis • Feb. 10, 2025

People-centered business continuity is critical in the age of AI

Recent crises such as the CrowdStrike outages and California wildfires show why people-centered business continuity is crucial. Learn how to shift the focus to people here.

By Paul Kirvan • Feb. 6, 2025

How to assess and manage geopolitical risk

Geopolitical risks are often linked to international political, social and economic activities. Set policies for global business to better identify risks before they happen.

By Paul Kirvan • Feb. 3, 2025

Cohesity exec: Gaia will ‘unlock’ data for AI applications

In this Q&A, Cohesity's Greg Statton explains how the Gaia offering connects data and AI services, with more capabilities coming following the acquisition of Veritas last year.

By Tim McCarthy • Jan. 27, 2025

Synology launches enterprise push with a backup appliance

Synology attempts to court the enterprise IT market with the launch of ActiveProtect, a new backup appliance, and plans to expand storage offerings later this year.

By Tim McCarthy • Jan. 22, 2025

6 top business continuity certifications to consider in 2025

Organizations can bolster and validate the expertise of their IT teams with a variety of certifications. There are several options aimed at business continuity professionals.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 22, 2025

Commvault automates Microsoft Active Directory reforestation

Commvault's latest offering enables the Microsoft AD forest to sprout back from disasters or ransomware through new automation and visualization tools.

By Tim McCarthy • Jan. 14, 2025

How to use rsync and scp for data protection

The rsync and scp tools are available to Linux, macOS and Windows users. These two simple utilities have several use cases for disaster recovery and data protection.

By Damon Garn • Dec. 30, 2024

Can Cohesity and Veritas define data protection’s future?

Moving forward, the combined firm's leadership will be under pressure to make good on its long-term vision.

By Scott Sinclair • Dec. 20, 2024

Business continuity vs. emergency management

There is overlap between business continuity and emergency management, but don't confuse the two. They are separate but equally critical disaster recovery practices.

By Brien Posey • Dec. 18, 2024

How to build and maintain a reliable backup infrastructure

A backup infrastructure is critical to long-term data protection and rapid recoveries. As environments become more complex, maintaining a strong infrastructure can be difficult.

By Damon Garn • Dec. 17, 2024

Acquisitions defined enterprise backup market in 2024

From massive acquisitions to an IPO, major enterprise backup vendors spent much of 2024 consolidating the market.

By Tim McCarthy • Dec. 17, 2024

What is a business continuity plan audit and how do you create one?

A business continuity plan audit is a formalized method for evaluating how business continuity processes are being managed.

By Scott Robinson, Andrew Burton, Erin Sullivan • Dec. 16, 2024

Disaster recovery glossary: 27 terms to know

Creating a disaster recovery plan is challenging, but critical for long-term business success. DR teams and IT can benefit from understanding these 27 terms.

By Damon Garn • Dec. 13, 2024

Free network disaster recovery plan template and guide

Proper network disaster recovery planning can mean the difference between a brief disruption and extensive downtime. Download our free template to get started building a plan.

By Paul Kirvan • Dec. 12, 2024

Cohesity completes acquisition of Veritas

The combined Cohesity company boasts more than 12,000 customers and promises support for existing Veritas products. Arctera, a Veritas spinoff, launches in the wake of the merger.

By Tim McCarthy • Dec. 10, 2024

How to use Time Machine to back up your Mac

Mac Time Machine backup is a useful tool for small businesses. It does not support cloud targets, but has a user-friendly interface and simple scheduling options for basic backups.

By Damon Garn • Dec. 9, 2024

Rubrik expands into AWS, GenAI management

Rubrik customers can now integrate their backup data into AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI with the new Annapurna API service. The vendor is also expanding its backup services for AWS.

By Tim McCarthy • Dec. 5, 2024

Why data backup is important

Not every organization has a backup infrastructure in place. There are several reasons why that is a mistake, including recovery costs and rising threats to critical data.

By Damon Garn • Dec. 4, 2024