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Best practices for verifying and validating your backups

Acronis

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

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Scary DR Stories 2023 Recap

Zerto

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! However, a power outage and backup generator failure led to a communication breakdown. This inexplicable experience still haunts that team today.

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A Business Guide To Managed IT Services in Fort Lauderdale

LAN Infotech

This is the first line of defense against unauthorized access and malware. The firewall is installed on a computer or server and is the second defender against unauthorized access or malware. Keeping the firewall up-to-date will ensure optimum performance to defend against malware. Anti-Malware. IT Managed Services.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22; Updates from Alcion, Arcserve, Veeam & More

Solutions Review

Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22, 2023 Alcion Raises $21 Million, with Participation from Veeam, for Go-to-Market Founded in 2022, Alcion provides Microsoft 365 administrators with a platform to protect against ransomware, malware, corruption and accidental data loss. Read on for more. Read on for more.

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Comparing Resilience: Business, Operational, IT, and Cyber – Part Four

Zerto

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), Post-attack validation of systems and networks to understand what was compromised, what data may have been stolen, the integrity of existing data, and the existence of any malware or spyware. What Is Cyber Resilience?

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Part 3 – How Zerto’s One-to-Many Supports Kubernetes

Zerto

These disruptions range from minor inconveniences to major outages and can have a significant impact on the availability and performance of your applications. As such, it is vulnerable to security threats, such as network attacks, malware, and data breaches. But like any system, it can be subject to unplanned disruptions.

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Zerto Innovates with Mobility and Resilience to New Platforms and Full Protection of Kubernetes Components

Zerto

This includes human errors, outages, but most importantly: ransomware. . Malware is being designed and built specifically to target Kubernetes clusters. Containers and cloud-native workloads are not immune from disruptive events and data loss. As container adoption grows, so does the target on these applications.