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

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As data volumes increase exponentially, the threat of data loss from cyberattacks, human error, or system failure has never been greater — which is why, in 2025, fortifying a data protection strategy has never made more sense. Backups continue to serve as the backbone of any data protection solution.

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one. 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. However, some people believe we should trust the cloud vendors to do the right thing. What’s the worst that could happen?

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ControlMonkey aims to bring order to cloud disaster recovery chaos

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There are a lot of different components that make up a cloud deployment. How many of those components, across multiple cloud environments, is the typical enterprise actually backing up for proper disaster recovery ? Thats a question that cloud infrastructure automation startup ControlMonkey is helping enterprises to help answer.

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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

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Broadcom on Tuesday released VMware Tanzu Data Services, a new “advanced service” for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), at VMware Explore Barcelona. VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.” Not at all.”

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

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Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.

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Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space

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Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). But Nvidia and Y Combinator-backed Lumen Orbit has a novel, out-of-this-world idea: Launching data centers into space.