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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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

A Spotlight on Critical Infrastructure The pipeline disruption of 2021 taught us a valuable lesson: Taking out one critical infrastructure provider can have a devastating ripple effect. Deploying a clean energy infrastructure to build in another layer of resilience from increasing energy costs and outages.

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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. How Can You Avoid Being a Ransomware Victim?

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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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IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. The outage was caused by a bad security update rolled out by CrowdStrike. Without question, this is one of the most expensive IT outages to date, with significant global impact. million Windows devices.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

September 8, 2021 : Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Earlier, we were able to restore from the backup but wanted to improve availability further. Production outages are scary for everyone, but with the right system monitoring solution, they can be made less stressful. See details.

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

Data from ESG research shared during Pure//Accelerate® Digital 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. The Cost to Recover Could Be More than the Ransom.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

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Swan Island Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You’ve undoubtedly read about or experienced the Delta outage this week; you might be sitting in an airport reading this right now! Corporations are not putting the kind of thought, effort and money into backup systems to help when these kind of events transpire. Corporate Security Predictions and Trends 2021. Share on linkedin.

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OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 17, 2022

According to the 2022 Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends Report , 76% of organizations were attacked by ransomware in 2021, more than half (51%) suffered ransomware-related outages and more than a third of data (36%) was unrecoverable after a successful attack. Strong Backup and Disaster Recovery Plans Are Essential.

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OffsiteDataSync

JUNE 29, 2021

According to the IDG 2020 Cloud Computing Survey , IT management expects to “reduce their use of commercially licensed software (65% currently, down to 50%) in favor of software as a service (SaaS) applications (up from 24% to 36%)” by the end of 2021. It stands to reason. That data is critical. It needs to be protected.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 26, 2023

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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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. Further, the Veeam Data Protection Report 2021 puts the hourly cost of downtime at $84,650, with a typical event lasting around 79 minutes.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

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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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

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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Zerto

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With Zerto and IBM Cloud working together, organizations are able to manage all of their IBM Cloud backup and recovery data directly in the cloud or a VMware environment, all while having access to the Zerto platform’s industry-leading recovery in case of a ransomware attack or outage.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With Zerto and IBM Cloud working together, organizations are able to manage all of their IBM Cloud backup and recovery data directly in the cloud or a VMware environment, all while having access to the Zerto platform’s industry-leading recovery in case of a ransomware attack or outage.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 forced the shutdown of a major U.S. Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. Backup solutions regularly back up critical data and store it securely, ensuring rapid recovery without succumbing to extortion demands.

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Online Computers

MAY 22, 2022

The 2021 ransomware attack on Ireland’s HSE. 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. They quickly moved their client servers to a remote data center, where continual backups were already stored.

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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. Downtime is enormously expensive.

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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. Downtime is enormously expensive.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 9, 2023

Around the world, demand for disaster recovery solutions was worth about $8 billion in 2021. Having backups of your data can protect you from this threat. An unfortunate power outage or system shortage could cause catastrophic consequences. However, part of your disaster recovery plan will involve making backups of your data.

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Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This led, over several days, to massive website outages that affected some of the internet’s most prominent sites, including Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit and others. The response to Mirai from both the U.S. and Europe was a call for a basic level of security in all IoT devices. The response in the U.S.

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