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

Network World

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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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Its enterprise-grade. For enterprises navigating this uncertainly, the challenge isnt just finding a replacement for VMware. Equally, it is a focus of IT operational duties including workload provisioning, backup and disaster recovery. IDC analyst Stephen Elliot concurs. VMware works and works really well. Its scalable.

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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections

Network World

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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ControlMonkey aims to bring order to cloud disaster recovery chaos

Network World

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. There are a lot of different components that make up a cloud deployment.

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Sophos Study: 94% of Ransomware Victims Have Their Backups Targeted By Attackers

Tech Republic Security

Research has found that criminals can demand higher ransom when they compromise an organisation’s backup data in a ransomware attack. Discover advice from security experts on how to properly protect your backup.

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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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The 5 S’s of cyber resilience: How to rethink enterprise data security and management

CIO Business Intelligence

According to ITICs 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey , 90% of mid-size and large enterprises face costs exceeding $300,000 for each hour of system downtime. To address these challenges, organizations need to implement a unified data security and management system that delivers consistent backup and recovery performance.