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Search Data Backup, Thursday, April 24th, 2025
The latest updates to backup platforms such as HYCU, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik and Keepit bolster cyber resilience in both technology and customer readiness.
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Cyber Defense Magazine, Saturday, April 19th, 2025
With incidences of ransomware on the rise, nobody should even be thinking that an attack is something that couldn't happen to them, let alone speak those words into existence.
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Solutions Review, Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Daniel Pearson, the CEO at KnownHost, explains why the 3-2-1 backup rule is just as important to cybersecurity today as it was when it was first created. T
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Search Data Backup, Monday, April 14th, 2025
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?
more → techradar, Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Keep your data safe and unecrypted
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Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
The best data backup and disaster recovery strategy does more than just optimize an organization's ability to restore operations quickly following a disruption. It also maximizes the bang that the business gets for its backup and recovery investments.
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How-To Geek, Monday, April 7th, 2025
It's always good to back up your data in multiple places, and save data from video games is no exception.It's always good to back up your data in multiple places, and save data from video games is no exception.
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Solutions Review, Monday, April 7th, 2025
Most organizations believe they're prepared for ransomware attacks with a simple strategy: maintain good backups and use them to restore systems if cybercriminals encrypt their data.
more → Solutions Review, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Solutions Review's Executive Editor Tim King compiled this roundup of World Backup Day quotes from experts for 2025, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market.
more → Search Data Backup, Monday, March 31st, 2025
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.
more → techradar, Monday, March 31st, 2025
We take a look back at World Backup Day 2025
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, March 31st, 2025
On World Backup Day, experts urge organizations to safeguard their data from loss, cyberattacks, and costly downtime.
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Backup Central, Monday, March 31st, 2025
When someone puts 'cloud vs tape' in a headline, they've immediately lost me. Why? Because it's a false dichotomy that misunderstands how modern storage works. Let me explain.
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Security Boulevard, Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
It's been a while since I've put some thoughts together for the CISO Blog, and with World Backup Day coming at the end of this month, the timing felt right. I've mentioned in the past that backups are crucial to keeping your data preserved and safe. But a backup is only as good as your ability to recover it-and that depends on security, testing, and a solid response plan.
more → Backup Central, Monday, March 10th, 2025
Tape backup is not dead. In fact, more tape is sold today than ever before. This might come as a shock to those who've been told tape is obsolete technology that's been replaced by fancy disk-based systems and cloud storage
more → StateTech, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
A synthetic full backup records incremental changes to create a complete backup without requiring constant, full backups of an entire system.
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The Backup Wrap-Up, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
In this episode of The Backup Wrap-up, W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss critical strategies for securing your backup disk against cyber threats.
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Virtualization&Cloud Review, Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
"Don't think your company's too small to be cyberattacked, because you're not," says disaster recovery expert Joey D'Antoni. "It just means they haven't decided to try you yet."
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Backup Central, Monday, February 17th, 2025
If you're still protecting your backup system with just usernames and passwords, you're practically begging for trouble.
more → CLOUDPro, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Experts told ITPro that businesses must adhere to stringent backup practices
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Backup Central, Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Choosing the best cloud backup requires more than just picking the first solution you find with good marketing. After decades in the backup business, I can tell you that getting this decision right matters more than ever, especially with today's cybersecurity threats.
more → ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
We look at backup and its role in enterprise data protection, including what to backup and how often, RPO and RTO, full and incremental, and if backups can be replaced by snapshots
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Backup Central, Monday, January 6th, 2025
Let's face it - nobody dreams of becoming a backup administrator. While other IT specialties get the glory and the budget, backup teams often get the leftovers. But getting backup into the IT budget isn't just about having nice tools - it's about business survival.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
The global Data Protection as a Service Market will grow to USD 74.91 billion by 2030 from USD 26.04 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 19.2 % from 2024 to 2030
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The Backup Wrap-Up, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Get ready for one of the most compelling disaster recovery stories we've ever featured on the Backup Wrap-up. (It's a very popular episode from a few years ago.)
more → Backup Central, Monday, December 9th, 2024
There's nothing quite like hearing disaster recovery stories from someone who's been in the trenches. A few years ago I spoke with a backup administrator who faced every IT pro's nightmare - a hurricane that flooded their data center and their Iron Mountain facility simultaneously.
more → Storage Switzerland, Monday, December 2nd, 2024
While backups are a critical component of data protection and are perceived as a cost-effective way to ensure data availability, backup alone are not DR.
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HelpNet Security, Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth earlier this year is quickly becoming the healthcare industry's version of Colonial Pipeline, prompting congressional testimony, lawmaker scrutiny and potential legislation. 
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ITProToday, Monday, November 11th, 2024
As businesses rely more on SaaS applications, internal backup strategies are essential for safeguarding data against accidental deletion, ransomware, and vendor issues.
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InfoQ, Monday, November 11th, 2024
Uber has written about successfully implementing a new differential backup system for its distributed databases, which led to storage cost reductions of up to 70%.
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Security Boulevard, Monday, November 11th, 2024
CISOs often face high-stake decisions. Imagine this hypothetical scenario: due to a critical system failure, a financial institution is forced to make a trade-off between two less-than-ideal options: go without multi-factor authentication (MFA) and all second-factor verifications for a month, or go a month without data backups.
more → Search Data Backup, Monday, October 28th, 2024
Achieving and maintaining optimal backup performance is a continuous process that requires a proactive approach to monitoring, analysis and optimization.
more → The Backup Wrap-up, Monday, October 28th, 2024
Experience the backup from hell in this eye-opening episode of The Backup Wrap-up. What started as a straightforward 40TB backup spiraled into a months-long battle with 400TB of data, failing tape drives, and directories containing hundreds millions of files.
more → Backup Central, Monday, October 28th, 2024
When a client asked me to back up two Synology boxes totaling 'about 40TB,' I had no idea I was about to experience the backup from hell.
more → Tecmint, Monday, October 21st, 2024
Rsnapshot is an open-source local/remote filesystem backup utility written in Perl, which leverages the power of Rsync and SSH to create scheduled incremental backups of Linux/Unix filesystems.
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Backup Central, Monday, October 14th, 2024
The backup industry is undergoing a significant transformation, with major players consolidating through mergers and acquisitions.
more → SiliconANGLE, Thursday, October 10th, 2024
As cyber extortion continues to plague businesses of all sizes, advanced backup solutions for ransomware are more critical than ever. The shift from traditional backup methods to more secure, scalable systems is shaping the future of cybersecurity.
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Backup Central, Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
As an IT professional, you might think the biggest threats to your organization come from external sources. But what if the call is coming from inside the house? In this post, we'll explore the very real danger of rogue administrators and how to prevent them from wreaking havoc on your systems.
more → Backup Central, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
In today's cybersecurity landscape, having a robust backup strategy for ransomware is no longer optional - it's a necessity.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Is public cloud storage the right solution for your data center backups? Weigh the benefits of flexibility and cost savings against the potential risks.
more → The Futurum Group, Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
Google has expanded its Cloud Backup service with a vault offering, strengthening its data protection and cyber recovery competencies.
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CIO, Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
More comprehensive vendor risk management practices and 'backup as a service' are two ways IT leaders are looking to better protect against SaaS incidents impacting their business.
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Analytics Insight, Thursday, August 15th, 2024
Essential best practices for data backup and recovery: safeguard your digital assets
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
I&O leaders are challenged to protect and recover critical business applications and data from multiple threats.
more → CIO, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
Linear Tape-Open (LTO) not only reads and writes data faster than disk, but also creates an airgap that is impassable for cybercriminals.
more → Search Data Backup, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Despite an administrator's best efforts, virtual machine backups can fail. Determine the cause of the failure and modify the VM backup strategy to prevent future mistakes.
more → Backup Central, Monday, July 8th, 2024
Ransomware attacks have become a major threat to businesses and organizations worldwide. These malicious attacks can cripple operations and cost millions in damages. However, there are effective ways to prevent them. This blog post will explore three essential strategies on how to stop ransomware attacks.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Enterprise backup and recovery software solutions enable organizations to back up their data by copying and archiving it to make it accessible in case of data loss or corruption. Infrastructure and operations leaders can learn from ratings and reviews by their peers shared on Gartner Peer Insights.
more → How-To Geek, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Cloud storage is amazingly convenient. We can all agree on that. So why bother backing up stuff the old-fashioned way? Well, here's why.
more → Backup Central, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Immutable backups are a crucial part of modern data protection strategies. They offer a strong defense against cyber threats, especially ransomware attacks. But what exactly are immutable backups? Let's explore this important concept. (Boy have times changed since I wrote this blog on immutability in 2008.)
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