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Veeam adds 200 new Features to its Backup and Recovery Suite with v11

Veeam has announced their new v11 software and it brings 150 new features to the suite.

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Disaster Recovery and the SolarWinds Exploit

One of the biggest malware attacks in recent history was the SolarWinds exploit where malware was spread through SolarWinds’ software update process to thousands of government and private sector customers. SolarWinds is a well-known provider of IT management products and their Orion infrastructure monitoring and management platform was the product that was attacked. Automatic updates…

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How to be the first to Know About Azure Storage Explorer Updates

The Azure Storage Explorer is one of my most regularly-used Azure tools aside from the Azure Portal itself. If you are not using it, I’ll give you some pointers in this post on where to install it but also how to be the very first to know if an update is available.

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How to Use Restic for Backup

Restic is a Go-based backup utility. Built on the design principles of an efficient, easy-to-use, secure, and verifiable backup system, Restic meets and exceeds those goals.

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Four Common Disaster Recovery Myths

Most organizations have finally been convinced about the need to have a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their essential workloads. That’s due in a big part to the fact that almost everyone in IT is all too familiar with Murphy’s Law that states if something can go wrong it will go wrong and…

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Amazon Announces AWS Timestream

First announced back in November 2018, this past September 30th,  2020 Amazon announced that AWS Timestream was generally available.

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The Difference between Backup and Disaster Recovery

While they definitely work together to provide data protection, backup and disaster recovery (DR) are not the same thing. A number of people, especially in smaller and medium-sized businesses, mistakenly think that just doing backups is enough to cover their DR requirements.

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The Importance of Endpoint Backup

While almost every business has some type of backup processes in place for their important servers, many of these same companies have neglected endpoint backup. There’s no doubt that servers are more important as they provide a platform for the business-critical applications and services that the business relies on but they are not the only critical component.

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Disaster Recovery: Practice Makes Perfect

There’s no doubt that having a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place is essential for businesses of all shapes and sizes. However, having a DR plan in place and effectively using it are very different things. Just like application code, DR plans and the DR procedures that you have in place need to be tested…

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Batten Down the Hatches, Hackers Are Coming for Your NAS

According to Kaspersky’s Threat Evolution Report Q3 2019, there is new ransomware ‘focused solely on NAS’ active in the wild.

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