Should you Consider Backup-as-a-Service?


Instead of performing your backup with your centralized on-premises IT infrastructure, BaaS connects your protected systems to a public cloud managed by the cloud provider or MSP.

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Key Features for Disaster Recovery-As-A-Service (DRaaS)


DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances.

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Backup for Native Cloud Apps

Today the cloud has become the norm for most businesses. Flexera in its 2020 State of the Cloud report has estimated that 93% of businesses today are using multiple clouds. As cloud use continues to grow organizations are moving more business-critical apps to the cloud and many businesses have adopted a cloud-first strategy for new […]

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What’s Different about Backup to the Cloud?


A lot of businesses have begun to incorporate the cloud into their backup processes and most businesses that haven’t done so yet are looking into the process. Using the cloud as a backup target has a lot of advantages; Cloud services have matured and provide extremely high levels of availability.

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The Difference between Backup and Disaster Recovery


While they definitely work together to provide data protection, backup and disaster recovery (DR) are not the same thing. A number of people, especially in smaller and medium-sized businesses, mistakenly think that just doing backups is enough to cover their DR requirements.

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The Importance of Endpoint Backup


While almost every business has some type of backup processes in place for their important servers, many of these same companies have neglected endpoint backup. There’s no doubt that servers are more important as they provide a platform for the business-critical applications and services that the business relies on but they are not the only critical component.

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Disaster Recovery: Practice Makes Perfect


There’s no doubt that having a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place is essential for businesses of all shapes and sizes. However, having a DR plan in place and effectively using it are very different things. Just like application code, DR plans and the DR procedures that you have in place need to be tested […]

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Batten Down the Hatches, Hackers Are Coming for Your NAS


According to Kaspersky’s Threat Evolution Report Q3 2019, there is new ransomware ‘focused solely on NAS’ active in the wild.

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Five Facts about Hybrid Cloud Backup


Using the cloud as a backup target is definitely one of the ways that many businesses are adopting the hybrid cloud. Today, almost all businesses are dealing with massive data growth. The research firm IDC has estimated that overall data is doubling every two years. Keeping up with this level of data growth is tough […]

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