OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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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OffsiteDataSync

MAY 18, 2022

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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Pure Storage

AUGUST 17, 2021

Data center outages come in many forms and often occur at the most unfortunate of times. The advantages of flash in backup and recovery. How to implement a hybrid-cloud backup solution. The old ways of doing backup and recovery are simply not up to today’s challenging environments. Download the Guide.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you’ve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, there’s one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a staged recovery environment (SRE). C-level executives are less concerned with the backup environment and whether or not you have an “air gap” or other controls. It’s all about speed. If no, why not, and when will it be?”.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” Deploying a clean energy infrastructure to build in another layer of resilience from increasing energy costs and outages.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A detailed discussion of Zero Trust is outside scope of the blog, but here’s an introduction pitched to the needs of BC practitioners. So what happens when, during an outage, employees start attempting to use backup devices, such as their home computers, to access the network? Traditional network security is perimeter-based.

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Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

With many organisations delivering customer-facing applications, any outage can have a significant impact on service availability, revenue, and customer satisfaction. Database restores and recoveries using RMAN backups, file system copies, or database exports are slow compared to the use of storage snapshots. Data Loss and Corruption.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Zerto’s new capabilities make an even stronger case for the next Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant. ZERTO BACKUP FOR SAAS POWERED BY KEEPIT. Built in the cloud and for the cloud, Zerto Backup for SaaS has been purpose-built for simplicity, powerful scalability, and security by design.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 14, 2023

Winner for APJ by Pure Storage Blog From the family-friendly Qashqai SUV to the all-electric Leaf compact, Nissan Australia has a mobility solution for every Australian. The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Zerto’s new capabilities make an even stronger case for the next Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant. ZERTO BACKUP FOR SAAS POWERED BY KEEPIT . Built in the cloud and for the cloud, Zerto Backup for SaaS has been purpose-built for simplicity, powerful scalability, and security by design.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan by Pure Storage Blog When Colonial Pipeline fell victim to a devastating cyberattack in May 2021, the company’s operations came to a standstill, leading to widespread fuel shortages throughout the eastern United States.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Online Computers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Secure your backups. This involves creating backups of any software or applications you use, as well as any website files. If you use a content management system such as WordPress, make sure you create a backup of your database as well. Related reading : Best practices for backup management. Regularly test your plan.

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

But even internally, an outage can be disastrous. If you don’t pay up, it will be up to you to get systems back online and recover data from whatever backup and restore solutions you have. In some cases, without the right backup and recovery solution, this process can cost more than paying the ransom.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. This means having the right technology and response plans in place to minimize data loss and downtime from any type of event—cyberattack, natural disaster, or otherwise.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 2, 2022

Asynchronous replication, on the other hand, is mainly used for data backups. . If there’s an accident or outage, then transactions and data that aren’t replicated at the time of the incident will be lost, and data in secondary storage may not always be current. Asynchronous Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Hackers want to compromise OT environments (or have companies shut them down themselves, causing an outage) to bring about more widespread disruption. We need better visibility into data, and we need fail-proof backup and recovery systems that keep business going even if attackers do get a foot in the door.

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NexusTek

AUGUST 4, 2021

Instead of repetitive, manual backup processes, cloud backup automatically copies and stores data regularly and securely. Backup to the Cloud is a safer, more reliable method that saves time and increases productivity. Disasters can be natural, such as a flood or hurricane, or technical, such as a power outage or cyberattack.

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Pure Storage

JULY 6, 2021

Second is a disturbing trend of late: targeting essential service providers that lead to massive outages and widespread disruptions. If you have an airtight, holistic prevention, backup, and recovery plan in place, you’re less likely to be a victim of a devastating ransomware attack. appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Online Computers

JULY 17, 2022

Corruption can occur due to a variety of reasons, such as viruses, hardware problems, or power outages. Use reliable storage devices – Reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions can ensure that critical data is always available, even if files become corrupted. Is it possible to retrieve a corrupted file?

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OffsiteDataSync

JUNE 29, 2021

Here’s a quick list of considerations to keep in mind regarding SaaS data, but if you want more detail, check out our new eBook, “ Backup & Disaster Recovery Strategies for the New World of Work.” Use point solutions where available: Backup solutions are available for many of the most common SaaS services. That data is critical.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

For now—for most of this blog post, in fact—I’d like to provide an introduction to ERM and suggest how organizations can get started in applying it. It helps organizations reduce risk, outages, impacts, and costs, such as insurance costs. I’ll talk more about that in a moment. ERM is all about reducing. ERM also increases a few things.

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Pure Storage

JULY 19, 2022

If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights. David Stamen , Principal Field Solutions Architect, The post Pure Storage at VMware Explore 2022 appeared first on Pure Storage Blog. And as it turns out, I technically can’t.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Flash Memory vs. RAM by Pure Storage Blog Flash memory is a high-performance solution to traditional hard drives making data storage and retrieval faster for applications and users. Flash memory is non-volatile, so it does not lose data after a power outage. The post Flash Memory vs. RAM appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In a 2020 disaster recovery (DR) survey conducted by 451 Research , four out of 10 companies with more than 1,000 employees experienced significant outages during the prior two years. They’re less expensive than a synchronous hot site but more so than a backup system. And the price is about a third of CDP.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 30, 2022

To recognize its importance, you only need to look at the multibillion-dollar industry that has been built up around it or read the news to observe the near-daily outages of major businesses or ransoms paid to bad actors. The post Using Per Protection Group SafeMode with Pure Cloud Block Store appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 8, 2023

MSPs can implement robust backup and disaster recovery solutions that prevent data loss. 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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Online Computers

MAY 22, 2022

In this blog post, we will discuss five real-life cases where business continuity planning was put to the test. The attack also caused the COVID-19 vaccine portal to go offline and induced IT outages at five major hospitals, including Children’s Health Ireland. The 2021 ransomware attack on Ireland’s HSE.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and greater loss of data in the event of a disaster as compared to other strategies as shown in Figure 1.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. If you use SaaS, where your data is stored, and the backup arrangements are often very transparent.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Assistant Continuity Manager: The backup to the Business Continuity Manager. Business Continuity Manager: The individual with direct responsibility for the business continuity program. This could be a titled position or an assigned position. Administrative Assistant: The individual responsible for supporting the BCM team.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. But I am not clairvoyant, and even I could not have predicted two AWS outages in the time since then.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Backups , snapshots , and replication are often confused but are slightly different things with the same ultimate goal of protecting your data. Backups are for redundancy, snapshots are for fast retrieval, and replication is for minimizing downtime. . What is a Backup? Data Replication vs Data Backup. What is a Snapshot?

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

IT’s 4 Biggest Risks and How to Build Resilience against Them by Pure Storage Blog IT departments face risks and challenges on a daily basis—not all of which are necessarily within their ultimate control. Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Things will go wrong.

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