For the sixth spotlight blog into key areas of the 2024 Data Protection Trends report, let's look at some new insights related to business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR). Read more

Recovery objectives are the foundational metric for building your disaster recovery strategy. Applying a quantifiable metric to the disruption that is tolerable to your business can help guide your evaluation of backup and recovery solutions to consider. Building your backup and recovery strategy based on your recovery objectives can provide you with confidence that when disaster hits, you are ready to recover with minimal data loss and impact on business processes and protect your business’s brand. Read more

Zero Trust is a model that requires all users, devices, and applications to be continuously authenticated, whether inside the organization's perimeter or in a location on the other side of the globe. Read more

You know the feeling — that knot in your stomach when faced with a potential data loss event. As an IT professional tasked with keeping operations running smoothly, any amount of downtime is unacceptable. But what if recovering from data loss didn't have to be a time-consuming, stressful ordeal? Read more

It’s small, green, designed to protect and perform, and you may have seen it roaming around with the Veeam Team at recent events — it’s the Recovery Rover. Read more

It’s no secret that as time has passed, the data landscape we all live in has grown exponentially, and with each day that goes by, protecting your business-critical data from ransomware has become an increasingly complex process. Read more

Imagine the following scenario. You are working on your notebook, Windows updates were installed and you are asked to reboot your notebook. A reboot doesn’t take too long, so why not do it right now? After the restart, your computer gets stuck in a blue screen. Your Windows log on screen does not appear, so you are locked out of your data and applications. This situation can occur not only on your workstation, but also on any of your physical servers. You need to gain access again to your machine. Read more

Modern data protection challenges demand an assessment of recovery strategies and the maintenance of compliance with those strategies. This could be for regulatory reasons or simply to offer assurance that the business can bounce back quickly in the event of an outage.  If we want to meet recovery objectives in the face of modern challenges such as ransomware, then recovery at scale and in parallel becomes a critical component. Recovering individual VM’s, files or application items is all well and good for ‘everyday’ disasters (like recovering that critical email) but when infrastructure becomes unavailable the impact can be felt broadly.    Read more

While most enterprise IT shops have a cybersecurity strategy that includes a backup policy, many have focused more on prevention than recovery, understandably. After all, the attack that fails does the least amount of damage. However, sooner than later, you may suffer a cyber incident that puts your business data and operations at risk — and an airtight cyber incident recovery solution can minimize the damage. Read more

Business continuity, simply put, is enabling your business to continue operating at an acceptable level in the event of an incident - large or small. Continuity for your business means being proactive, ready for inevitable disruption and able to react to resume critical services.   Read more