As organizations continue to embrace the cloud for its scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness, ensuring they maintain compliance with regulations and policies is of critical importance. Read more

At the top of this month, I had the pleasure of chatting with Formula 1 CTO, Pat Symonds, where we discussed how data drives innovation at F1, including what the organization’s data looks like and how F1 makes sure their tremendous data sprawl stays secure.   Read more

In terms of impact to the business, 45% of production data was encrypted or affected. And the numbers are getting even worse from earlier research that was done just nine months ago. Read more

I was lucky enough to get my first computer in 1988 as an eight-year-old. Karateka, Elite, Pacman and Tetris became my best friends... Read more

Just like with on-premises environments, your cloud-hosted data can fall victim to any number of data loss or outage scenarios, with cyberthreats like ransomware continuing to top the list. Ransomware attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, with backup repositories becoming the primary target. Our 2022 Ransomware Trends Report reveals that an astounding 94% of attacks targeted these repositories. Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another independent research project, the 2023 Ransomware Trends Report. What’s almost as bad as going through a cyberattack is talking about it to others, so Veeam contracted with a research firm to conduct blind interviews and surveys of 1,200 organizations who suffered one or more attacks in 2022. Read more

Unstructured data and file repositories are common in most enterprise environments. As organizations try to reduce licensing costs and maintenance overhead, Network Attached Storage (NAS) is still commonplace in many modern enterprises. The ability to store and host data directly on NAS without having to manage OS patches and other lifecycle operations is very attractive to many IT departments. Even though it isn’t suited for all workloads, unstructured data like Microsoft Office documents, JPGs, MP3s, etc. is one of the most common use cases for NAS backup. Read more

Data is a perpetually growing and essential force for every business or organization and having a plan to manage all that data is critical. Read more

One of the biggest challenges that corporate IT departments face is protecting all their workloads. Teams spend significant amounts of time architecting, deploying and configuring solutions for their hypervisor and cloud workloads. Physical workloads that typically consist of enterprise databases that run on Windows, Linux or Unix get their fair share of attention too. However, an often-overlooked gap are the end users themselves. Read more

It’s no secret that strong data security is one of the most critical requirements in today’s world. With networks constantly being targeted and assaulted through automated attacks, phishing expeditions or malicious insiders, your backups need to be secured. Without a trusted and secured backup, recovery becomes significantly more complicated, if not impossible. Fortunately, features like immutable backups can help strengthen your recovery plans. Read more