Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe Covid-19 pandemic forced big changes in how people work – we look at impacts on backup, including increased reliance on the cloud, plus security and compliance vulnerabilities and ransomware By Stephen Pritchard Remote working is now a permanent arrangement for a growing number of businesses after the Covid-19 pandemic pushed organisations of all sizes to move to home working
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesAutomated backup systems are easy to understand with just a few basic concepts. Here’s what you need to know about this highly reliable and increasingly popular technology. By John Edwards Automation has transformed a wide range of formerly undependable, labor-intensive data center technologies, and backups are no exception. Automated backup systems can improve backup quality and reliability, while staff members
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThis backup and recovery audit checklist offers a comprehensive group of controls and evidence examples to get you ready for the important process of IT auditing. By Paul Kirvan To ensure that data backup activities are consistent with good practice and relevant standards and regulations, periodic audits are important. Audits ensure you’re performing backups regularly using good backup practices, your
Reading Time-approximately: 20 minutesBefore selecting a service from a cloud backup provider, identify your organization’s specific needs, including which features are important for security and data management. By Chris Evans As data becomes more valuable to enterprises, backup and data protection become increasingly critical in delivering IT services to internal business customers. Over the last 15 years, IT has gradually adopted public cloud
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteEnterprise BaaS is a software as a service that delivers backup and recovery services that connect systems to the cloud. Learn how BaaS works, pros and cons, and best practices. Tekmart Africa Partner Content Before the pandemic, enterprises were gradually turning to software-as-a-service providers for data protection. With millions of employees now working from home, more organizations started asking: “What
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBackup Exec, which is now under the Veritas brand, is one of the top names in data protection. If a Backup Exec error occurs, it may be one of the codes analyzed below. By Brien Posey Backup Exec has been around in one form or another since the early 1990s and has a reputation as one of the more reliable
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as “traditional” software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances. By Antony Adshead Computer Weekly recently surveyed the main backup software providers and those that supply a new breed of backup appliances, all built for the cloud era as a target. Here we look at the rest – all small and medium-sized enterprise
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA long-time cloud backup proponent, Acronis tries to make the selection and use of its data backup products easier with a Backup Purchase Wizard and Universal Restore technology. By Brien Posey With a reputation as stable, easy to use and innovative, Acronis backup and recovery software products are the go-to data backup offerings for many organizations. And since approximately 2012,
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhile Microsoft offers disaster recovery for its 365 platform, you might need more protection. Explore some of the available options, plus how to create a DR plan. By Brien Posey Microsoft 365 — formerly Office 365 — is one of the most popular software suites for businesses. Given the volume of data that organizations store within Microsoft 365 applications such
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