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World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline

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World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage. Backup has seen great advancement – even the standard 3-2-1 rule has added a digit or two. But those times are long gone.

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Does the cloud, alone, meet 3-2-1?

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The cloud has a lot going for it as a backup and disaster recovery (DR) target. In fact, some in the backup community say that storing backups in the cloud, alone, is enough to meet the 3-2-1 rule (three copies of the data in two different media with one offsite). The use of cloud services in backup is growing.

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The Best Risk Management Courses on Udemy to Consider for 2021

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The 6 Best Risk Management Courses on Coursera for 2021 … March 16, 2021 Best Practices. This course also includes two case studies of what happens when risk management fails, as demonstrated by the Amazon Web Services outage and Equifax data breach that both occurred in 2017. You May Also Like. GO TO TRAINING.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

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When a hurricane leads to widespread power outages, flooding, and workforce disruption, for example, an effective disaster recovery plan ensures that IT systems remain up and running and that operations can come back online as soon as possible. This includes minimizing downtime, minimizing data loss, and ensuring business continuity.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

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Readiness starts with an effective disaster recovery plan that incorporates backup systems, data replication, and testing procedures to ensure that the plan will work in practice. This typically involves detailed technical strategies for system failover, data recovery, and backups. What Is Business Continuity Planning?

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Make Sure Your SaaS Data is Covered: Back It Up!

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Companies are rapidly moving to SaaS, but they often wrongly think their software vendor is responsible for data backup, and that leaves many organizations unprotected. Nathan Anderson, CTO of Jungle Disk, discusses why IT needs a backup strategy for SaaS data. Outages with major SaaS providers do happen. You Got a Problem?

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Expert Reveals 3 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices to Know

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2023 could be the year we see the first major SaaS outage. That’s when the message will hit home very quickly that data backup and protection must be front and center. It’s also important to ask whether the provider offers data backup services. Say a hurricane comes, and a cloud provider’s server farm crashes.

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