Instead of celebrating World Backup Day 2024 for accomplishing another year of successful backups, I recommend using it to look forward to a year of testing recovery. Instead of starting data protection strategies by planning backups, organizations should flip their mindset and start by planning recovery: What data needs to be recovered first? What systems […]
Don’t Be Held Hostage by Legacy Data Backup
Today is World Backup Day, our annual reminder of the importance of being diligent about backing up data to prevent data loss. But the fact is, the rate at which data levels are exploding in size is far outpacing what legacy data backup systems can achieve. The way we have done backup for the past 20 […]
Move Over, Backup: It’s Time to Talk Data Resiliency
Your data is under attack more than ever before. The onslaught of cyber attacks around the world is unrelenting, and organizations of all sizes have found themselves on the other end of the ransom demand. As hard as it is to imagine, organizations like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning us that things could get […]
Steps to Protect Your Most Critical Business Assets on World Backup Day
Click to learn more about author Jamie Zajac. Have you ever thought of what you would do if your computer crashed or died? You may have hundreds of files on it ranging from the family vacation photos to taxes files to work documents. In an instant, it could be gone forever – unless you have […]
Backup is a Solid Foundation of Data Management
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. I find myself preparing for World Backup Day at a time that companies around the world are still reeling from the effects of the coronavirus. IT professionals from China to Italy and everywhere in between are having to adapt to our new normal. It seemed impossible […]
World Backup Day: Celebrate with Disaster Recovery
Click to learn more about author Matt VanderZwaag. It’s no coincidence that World Backup Day falls the day before April Fool’s Day. The founders of the initiative want to impress upon the public that the loss of data resulting from a failure to back up is nothing to laugh at. From mission-critical business information to personal photos and videos, data has become […]