Today, many companies are pursuing application modernization strategies in replacing older software with innovative computing approaches like new languages, frameworks, and infrastructure platforms. Indeed, the application modernization services market is forecast to expand from $11.4 billion in 2020 to $24.8 billion by 2025. Whether containerization, virtualization, or low-code/no-code software development, organizations are eagerly experimenting with and adopting […]
A Data Recovery Secret That’s (Really) Ransomware-Proof
Cyber resilience is a top concern for businesses in every industry. A key reason for this is that businesses of all sizes continue to face an ever-increasing array of cyber threats including ransomware, malware, and spear phishing. Ransomware is a particularly pernicious problem and a huge threat to organizations worldwide. According to Cybercrime Magazine, the collective […]
How to Quickly Return to Normal Operations After a Cyberattack
Enterprise IT environments are notoriously complex. Increasingly, organizations are using a hybrid IT landscape of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, and a growing number now use a multi-cloud environment. This enables more agile business transformation but also affords cyberattackers increased options to mount cyberattacks. Companies need to arm themselves because cyberattacks such as ransomware have led […]
The Truth About Data Backup for Mission-Critical Environments
Click to learn more about author Ken Steinhardt. If you are depending wholly on data backup for disaster recovery and business continuity, you may want to take a second look at your strategy. For mission-critical environments, data backup should be, at most, a secondary level of protection and not the primary form of data protection. […]
Don’t Overlook RO/BO (And Now HO): Tips to Manage and Protect Data at the Edge
Click to learn more about author Shridar Subramanian. Change is normal — but the pace of change in recent times has been anything but normal. For IT professionals that have helped their organizations shift to new work-from-home and remote models, the speed of change has been nothing short of dizzying and disorientating. IT managers are […]
It’s Time to Admit It: Backup is Your Job
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Salesforce finally made it official: Backup is the customer’s responsibility. To be clear, it always was the customer’s responsibility, but Salesforce used to provide a safety net that some used as an excuse not to back up their Salesforce account. As of July 31, 2020, that […]
Acronis Empowers Service Providers with Acronis Cyber Protect
According to a recent press release, “Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced today the availability of Acronis Cyber Protect, an innovative new cyber protection solution that integrates backup, disaster recovery, next-gen anti-malware, cybersecurity, and endpoint management tools into one service. Acronis Cyber Protect eliminates complexity, improves productivity, and enables managed service providers (MSP) […]
Rethinking Disaster Recovery: Top Recovery Scenarios for AWS
Click to learn more about author Andrew Langsam. Regardless of what AWS and other cloud providers offer in their service-level agreements (SLAs), it is ultimately up to the enterprise to ensure proper protection of their own applications and data in the cloud. Still, the number of companies we have seen brought to their knees due […]
Where Data Protection-as-a-Service Wins and Loses: Protecting Cloud Data with DPaaS
Click to learn more about author Mat Hamlin. As organizations move more data to cloud services, they must actively adapt their backup and recovery processes and solutions to maintain compliance to their defined governance policies and be able to prove so, when asked by internal and external auditors. Too few organizations understand that data protection […]
Keeping Your Critical Data Secure
Click to learn more about author Mat Hamlin. 13,443,149,623 and counting – that’s the number of data records that have been lost or stolen since 2013. We are living in a world where a new cybersecurity breach happens every day, attack vectors such as ransomware and malware only continue to become more sophisticated and internal […]