Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Solutions Review’s Tim King compiled this roundup of 45 World Backup Day quotes from 32 experts for 2023, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. World Backup Day quotes have been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

Backup 119

Backup Disaster Recovery Application Outage 119

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.

Disaster Recovery 99

Disaster Recovery Backup Management Outage 99

Assurance IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Data Replication and Backup, what’s the difference? Data backup is more popular with 90% of businesses backing up their data. What is Data Backup? Also, there are a variety of data backup services available today that help businesses and organizations. The post Data Replication VS Backup. What’s The Difference?

Backup 91

Backup Disaster Recovery Outage Business Continuity 91

Pure Storage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Australian wildfires (2020): After losing their office to wildfires, an Australian company restored operations within 48 hours thanks to their offsite backup and recovery system.

Disaster Recovery 121

Disaster Recovery Failover Cyber Resilience Resilience 121

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this submission, Model9 ‘s Offer Baruch shares thoughts for decreasing cost and increasing the efficiency of mainframe backup and recovery. Mainframe backup and disaster recovery situations are about much more than full-blown disasters. Reducing Mainframe Backup Costs. Improving Recovery Efficiency.

Backup 98

Backup Disaster Recovery Strategic Banking 98

Pure Storage

JANUARY 8, 2025

These figures highlight the escalating financial risks associated with system outages, underscoring the importance of robust disaster recovery solutions like disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to mitigate potential losses. This setup minimizes the risk of prolonged downtime by providing a secure backup in the event of a regional issue.

Disaster Recovery 104

Disaster Recovery Mitigation Failover Resilience 104

Zerto

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Weve all been there: watching the dreaded spinning wheel during the climax of a video, stuck at an airport gate as flight delays ripple across the screens, or worse, during an emergency, facing system outages when we need them most. Heres why: Ransomware doesnt wait: Attacks are escalating, targeting backups, and spreading fast.

Disaster Recovery 77

Disaster Recovery Failover Vulnerability Backup 77

PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Benefit: Maintains cloud infrastructure consistency, minimizing the risk of configuration drift, which can lead to unexpected outages or security vulnerabilities. Automated Backup and Recovery Description: Regular backups are critical for business continuity. Automated backups ensure that data is always recoverable.

Vulnerability 64

Vulnerability Backup Outage Application 64

Synology

AUGUST 4, 2024

On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike’s attempt to update the “Falcon Sensor” for real-time threat detection and endpoint protection led to a system crash that affected 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices, causing widespread IT and operational disruptions worldwide.

Outage 98

Outage Malware Resilience Backup 98

Zerto

JULY 30, 2024

This caused a major outage in many sectors, including transportation, and CrowdStrike customers scrambled to roll back their systems or implement a workaround to restore systems to working order. Where Does the Responsibility Lie? Nor could they test all the possible system configurations even if they wanted to.

Outage 52

Outage Backup Disaster Recovery Failover 52

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

Outage 52

Outage Airlines Travel Backup 52

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

Outage 52

Outage Airlines Travel Backup 52

LAN Infotech

MARCH 20, 2025

Even a one-hour outage can lead to significant revenue loss and damage to the companys reputation. System outages or slow response times can lead to dissatisfaction, negative reviews and loss of business. Backup And Disaster Recovery: Having a hybrid backup plan is best. Customers expect seamless interactions.

Authentication 59

Authentication Strategic Cybersecurity Outage 59

Pure Storage

JANUARY 8, 2025

On-premises backup means placing compute resources in a data center-like environment that an organization or user builds and maintains themselves. Cloud services rely on the provider’s infrastructure, which means their service disruptions or outages can affect your business operations. What Is On-premises Storage?

Internet 52

Internet Backup Outage Outsourcing 52

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. The post An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

Outage 52

Outage Airlines Backup Capacity 52

Pure Storage

JANUARY 9, 2024

Eradicating Change Management Outages with Pure Professional Services by Pure Storage Blog Executives who invest in Pure Storage technologies don’t do so just for the advanced features—they’re also looking for the assurance of uninterrupted operations. What Are Change Management Outages?

Outage 52

Outage Change Management Management Mitigation 52

Zerto

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! Backups from January were restored to 3, but the Robocopy job sought Server 1. Beware false comforts; verify backups thoroughly.

Outage 110

Outage Disaster Recovery Airlines Cyber Resilience 110

PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

Outage 52

Outage Alert Resilience Failover 52

PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

Outage 52

Outage Alert Resilience Failover 52

Pure Storage

MARCH 3, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at the various options you have to perform data backups and how to best back up your data to keep it safe in the event of cyberattacks, downtime, system failures, or anything else. Full Backups A full backup is the most common type of backup.

Backup 52

Backup Outage Architecture Business Continuity 52

Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage. Even the largest public clouds experience outages as seen in recent news events. Your Data is Your Responsibility.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Outage Backup Application 98

Acronis

MAY 10, 2023

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

Backup 52

Backup Malware Outage Application 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. If they understand this then they can make appropriate investment in backup and disaster recovery and have a good understanding of the impact if the systems are lost. The post Computer says no!

Outage 52

Outage Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Education 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. If they understand this then they can make appropriate investment in backup and disaster recovery and have a good understanding of the impact if the systems are lost. The post Computer says no!

Outage 52

Outage Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Education 52

Zerto

JANUARY 23, 2025

They refer to data loss and recovery time for data and applications in the event of a disasterwhether on-premises or an outage in a region hosting cloud resources. RPO is often determined by the data protection solution used, such as backups, storage replication, or continuous data replication. Ensuring frequent backups with low RPOs.

Disaster Recovery 54

Disaster Recovery Failover Backup Data Recovery 54

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Legacy data protection solutions found in the market today were designed with yesteryear’s technology and are focused largely on backups versus recovery. Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. Similarly, Cohesity’s DataLock is a time-bound, WORM lock on the immutable backup snapshot to prevent expiration or deletion.

Backup 105

Backup Outage Capacity Architecture 105

Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Having a robust data protection and recovery strategy based on backup and recovery is the first step toward ensuring IT resilience. An effective IT resilience strategy focuses on delivering an ‘always-on’ customer experience regardless of unplanned outages and changes to IT infrastructure.

Resilience 98

Resilience Cyber Resilience Outage Failover 98

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?

Backup 52

Backup Publishing Outage Application 52

Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Pure Storage all-flash storage arrays paired with Commvault backup and recovery software provide high-speed data transfer rates, low latency, and uncompromised recovery outcomes across the broadest set of workloads in the industry. FlashBlade//E has the ability to create SafeMode™ Snapshots of the backup data.

Sports 116

Sports Backup Resilience Application 116

Zerto

JANUARY 10, 2024

What is the Native Google Workspace Backup Solution? Filling Native Google Workspace Data Protection Gaps with the Cloud Common myths exist when discussing online Google Workspace backup solutions. While this platform is secure, it’s a mistake to think it doesn’t need backup—it does, just like any other data storage solution.

Backup 52

Backup Outage Application Vulnerability 52

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. Increasing your backup frequency is a critical way to lower your RPOs and RTOs. Over-Reliance on On-Prem Backup .

Data Recovery 98

Data Recovery Disaster Recovery Backup Outage 98

Pure Storage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This eliminates the complicated and time-consuming process of planning and executing multiple workload outages while data is moved and then cut over to the new array. This will present a system stability problem in an unexpected component outage because critical data will be lost.

Architecture 119

Architecture Outage Airlines Activation 119

OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 31, 2022

World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage. Backup has seen great advancement – even the standard 3-2-1 rule has added a digit or two. But those times are long gone.

Backup 52

Backup Disaster Recovery Failover Outsourcing 52

Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, Zerto established its leadership in the Kubernetes data protection space with the release of Zerto for Kubernetes, bringing continuous data protection for backup and disaster recovery (DR) to a native Kubernetes (K8s) experience. . This includes human errors, outages, but most importantly: ransomware. .

Resilience 98

Resilience Disaster Recovery Backup Application 98

BCP Builder

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These could range from natural disasters like floods and earthquakes to more specific risks like power outages, data breaches, or supply chain issues. Recovery plans often include backup solutions for IT systems, alternative work locations, and communication plans.

Continuity Planning 52

Continuity Planning Business Continuity BCP Publishing 52

PagerDuty

MARCH 6, 2025

You need a robust backup plan and multiple channels of communication and response. Effective failover methods must include independent, automated channels (online and offline) for both notifications and critical data access, and a distributed system architecture, integrated with backup systems and tools.

Failover 49

Failover Management Alert Backup 49

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.

Disaster Recovery 94

Disaster Recovery Backup Internet Outage 94