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 […]
How GDPR Has Influenced the World
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The General Data Protection Regulations (the GDPR) of the European Union may not have solved all data privacy issues in the European Union, but it has definitely cemented the all-important idea of data privacy into the world’s collective consciousness. On this two-year anniversary of the GDPR, […]
Disaster Recovery Lessons from Tiger King: Why the 3-2-1 Rule Rules
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. You had to have been living under a rock to have not heard of Tiger King, Netflix’s latest true crime documentary. Watched by more than 34 million people in its first ten days, it’s the story of the self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” Joe Exotic. Spoiler alert: Don’t […]
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 […]
Why GDPR Compliance Does Not Mean You’re Ready for CCPA
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is not GPDR. If you made sure your company complied with GDPR, the good news is you won’t have to start from scratch for CCPA. But they are very different laws with subtle (and some not so subtle) differences that […]
The Myth of Permanence: Why Backing Up Could Save Your Business
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Office 365 is one of the top enterprise SaaS applications and has become a staple technology across nearly every sector.However, there’s a common and costly misconception that cloud-based apps are automatically backed up and recoverable. While these apps have some native protection for incidents like server […]
The Armageddon That Wasn’t: GDPR One Year Later
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. If the first year’s existence of the GDPR has shown us anything, it’s that the European Commission is serious about its successful implementation. It levied over €56 million in fines against 91 companies – €50 million of that was against a single company. We can also […]
Why the Cloud is Perfect for Disaster Recovery
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Disaster recovery (DR) is the perfect workload for the cloud. The main reason this is true is that disasters happen suddenly and without warning, which requires you to declare them in the same way. The cloud is ready to go at a moment’s notice, making it […]
Protecting Your SaaS in 2019
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston Two things will happen a lot in 2019: the introduction of more SaaS storage vendors and more SaaS data loss incidents. Although it may sound that the two are directly related, that A leads to B, they are actually quite different. The latter is due to […]