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Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans

Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the handling costs of manually loading and unloading tape libraries, and logistics surrounding off-site storage. However, while inexpensive, tapes are inflexible. And when used as an offline solution it can take many hours to retrieve them from offsite storage – not to mention the additional time required to load them into a tape library before a recovery can even start.

Ensuring Business Continuity with Cloud Backup

Have you ever had one of those nightmares where your business data has vanished? You wake up in a cold sweat, realizing how much your company relies on all that information stored on servers and computers. If a disaster wiped it out, your business could halt. But there's an easy solution: cloud backup.

Double Down on Your Backups

In August, a ransomware attack hit another company. Unfortunately, it hit a regional cloud provider in Europe this time, and we can call this a “critical hit.” So far, we know a virtual server got compromised and used as a jump host; from there, the attacker started to encrypt all volumes in the same domain. Based on pure luck or some profound reconnaissance, the same server migrated into a different data center and continued its unplanned job from there.

8 Advanced Tech Solutions for Reducing Business Downtime

In today's fast-paced business landscape, downtime can be a devastating blow to any organization. Every minute of unproductive time translates to potential revenue loss, damage to customer trust, and disruptions in operations. As technology evolves, so do the solutions for mitigating downtime and ensuring seamless business continuity. This article will explore eight advanced tech solutions that can significantly reduce business downtime and keep your operations running smoothly.

Leveraging Cloud Infrastructure for Remote Work

Even though there have been numerous reports about the decline of remote work in the last two years, many companies are still using the model and seeing a lot of success with it. Some of this success has to do with the technology they use. Cloud technology has become popular as businesses have realized its numerous benefits, including its ability to help them reduce operating costs, enhance collaboration, and provide scalability. Here's how these businesses are using cloud infrastructure effectively for remote work.

Introduction to Azure Files Backup

Azure Files is Microsoft’s robust file storage solution, offering the ability to access data seamlessly from various locations using standard protocols. But in the world of IT, where data is the heartbeat of operations, its safety is paramount. That’s where Azure Files Backup comes into play. In a digital era, where data loss can spell catastrophe, backing up your valuable files is more than a best practice; it’s a necessity.

The importance of a network backup tool

Configurations are regarded as the core of networks due to their importance. With businesses continually advancing and relying on networks for storing, processing, and transmitting critical data, the complexity of network management has increased, leading to difficulties and human errors that can cause significant network downtime.

SaaS Backup: Complete Guide & Best Practices

The cloud is integral to many organizations, and a substantial number regularly use SaaS applications during daily business operations. However, not all organizations have implemented backups, which can create problems such as accidental deletion, security incidents, or hardware failure. SaaS providers do not solve these problems, so the best and easiest way to protect your organization from downtime and losses is to implement SaaS Backup.

Understanding The Cloud Options Available To Your Business

Businesses in all sectors of industry and commerce have undergone some dramatic changes in the last few decades. One of the key changes has been the move to the digitalization of the modern workplace. Previously, storing and retrieving physical documents, data and information were common practice. Today, this is considered to be incredibly outdated in most organizations and almost all important pieces of data and information are now held in the digital domain.