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Managed IT services providers: Your small-business growth partner

Online Computers

This means that instead of constantly worrying about IT problems, you and your employees can focus on core business activities. This helps ensure systems are always running at peak performance even during outages, minimizing downtime and allowing your business to get back online quickly after any disruption or catastrophe.

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

Freedom from malware and/or ransomware : Backup systems are just as vulnerable to compromise as anything else, so they be kept clean. Typically, backup systems are called into action for discrete outages. Logical and/or physical air gapping : Backups should be protected from network intrusions so ransomware cannot reach them.

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

In general, there’s not much that can be done to prevent a natural disaster. But there are actions that can be taken in advance to help head off certain disasters and attacks and prevent these disasters from increasing in scope: Anomaly detection —with AI and intrusion detection systems (e.g.,

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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023

Solutions Review

Any data that has been identified as valuable and essential to the organization should also be protected with proactive security measures such as Cyberstorage that can actively defend both primary and backup copies from theft.” However, backups fail to provide protection from data theft with no chance of recovery.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 3; Updates from IBM, Pure Storage, Veeam & More

Solutions Review

introducing extreme high availability for PostgreSQL—up to 99.999%+ availability via active-active technology, according to the vendor. The three challengers are adoption of AI/ML and HPC workloads; hybrid cloud app transformation and data movement from edge-to-core-to-cloud; and ensuring data resiliency in the face of malware.

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What is DRP (Disaster Recovery Planning) and Why is It Important?

Erwood Group

Some people are mostly thinking about the possibility of ransomware and other forms of cybercriminal activity. Hospitals and other institutions are also being targeted for cybercriminal activity. The numbers show that cybercriminal activity is rising fast. Fight Cyber Criminals With a Disaster Recovery Plan.

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Why Containers are Susceptible to Ransomware (& How Zerto Can Help!)

Zerto

The IDC study found that 79% of those surveyed activated a disaster response, 83% experienced data corruption from an attack, and nearly 60% experienced unrecoverable data. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers.