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Backup Software vs. Backup as a Service (BaaS): The Key Differences

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Backups continue to serve as the backbone of any data protection solution. While traditional backup software is well-proven, Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions are rapidly becoming the cross-industry standard. What is Backup Software? However, managing backup software can be complex and resource intensive.

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World Backup Day is heading our way

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World Backup Day is March 31 a day that has been recognized every year since it was first set up in 2011. Initially, it was meant to be a simple reminder of the importance of backups and a time to reflect on how well were all doing with this important task whether were protecting our family photos or safe-guarding critical business data.

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Microsoft’s Veeam partnership signals data resiliency market shift

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The platform, hosted on Microsoft Azure, uses zero trust and isolated Azure Blob Storage to secure backups. Three Veeam Data Cloud offerings will benefit directly from the Microsoft integration: Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, a Microsoft 365 backup service with 23.5 The big winner, though, is customers.

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Ransomware: It’s coming for your backup servers

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Backup and recovery systems are at risk for two types of ransomware attacks: encryption and exfiltration – and most on-premises backup servers are wide open to both. This makes backup systems themselves the primary target of some ransomware groups, and warrants special attention. To read this article in full, please click here

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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections

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Let’s look at the tactics, strategies, and importance of red teams and the role they can play in enhancing the security of your backup system. Red teams may attempt to compromise backup systems to demonstrate the potential impact of such an attack. Nowhere is this more true than inside the backup system.

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

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OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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Backup lessons learned from 10 major cloud outages

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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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