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Backup lessons learned from 10 major cloud outages

Network World

I’ve always called for independent backups of everything. Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. Code Spaces (2014): A hacker gained access and deleted all customer data and backups from Code Spaces’ AWS environment.

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World Backup Day 2020 while World is Fighting with Covid-19

Anoop

This year’s world backup day (31st March) should come with a different message. Humanity is fighting with Covid-19 and I don’t see any point in “celebrating” world backup day. So the backup of all your work […]. I’m sure we will overcome this difficult situation and we still need to go back to our normal life.

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Halloween Backup Horror Stories eBook

Anoop

Let’s get ready for Halloween (31st Oct 2020 ) with SysAdmins Backup Horror Stories eBook, especially for you. The post Halloween Backup Horror Stories eBook appeared first on How to Manage Devices by Admin.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since.

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Salesforce to acquire data protection specialist Own Company for $1.9 billion

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce plans to complement its existing offerings — including Salesforce Backup, Shield, and Data Mask — with Own’s capabilities. billion in December 2020. The company said Own’s offerings will enable it to offer a more comprehensive set of data protection and loss prevention products.

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Veeam Software, which recently relocated its HQ to the Seattle area, reaches $15B valuation

GeekWire

Veeam serves 77% of the Fortune 500 and more than 550,000 organizations that use its software for data protection and backup amid the rise of ransomware and other cyber threats. following its March 2020 acquisition by private equity firm Insight Partners — a deal that valued the company at $5 billion. The company said it reached $1.7

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District Medical Group transforms its approach to data management

CIO Business Intelligence

When Kevin Rhode took the role of CIO of Arizona-based District Medical Group (DMG) in May 2020, he faced his share of challenges. When he took the helm at DMG, Rhode’s first step was to assess the organization’s disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and data management capabilities. Introducing cold storage.

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