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Heathrow Power Outage: Unseen Lessons

Plan B Consulting

In todays bulletin, Charlie discusses Heathrow Airports recent power outage and gives advice on how we can learn from the event. Many showed quite a lack of understanding about backup power. The fire damaged both main and backup power systems. Over 1,000 flights were cancelled, and thousands of passengers stranded.

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World Backup Day Quotes from Experts for 2025

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Executive Editor Tim King compiled this roundup of World Backup Day quotes from experts for 2025, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. Note: World Backup Day quotes are listed in the order we received them.

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How to Set Up a Secure Isolated Recovery Environment (SIRE)

Pure Storage

How to Set Up a Secure Isolated Recovery Environment (SIRE) by Pure Storage Blog If youve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, theres one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a secure isolated recovery environment (SIRE). Start with snapshots, and plan only to go to backups if you cant get the historical data you need.

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Turning Setbacks into Strengths: How Spring Branch ISD Built Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam

Pure Storage

Turning Setbacks into Strengths: How Spring Branch ISD Built Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam by Pure Storage Blog Summary Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston experienced an unplanned outage. Theres nothing fun about dealing with an unplanned outage.

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Why Microsoft Azure Active Directory Backup Is Needed

Zerto

The Nightmare of No Backup Today’s CIOs, CISOs, and other IT leaders wear many hats. With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. Is Backup for Azure AD Necessary?

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The Crucial Role of Data Forensics in Post-cyberattack Recovery

Pure Storage

Automated tools, such as an immutable backup solution, can help you quickly collect evidence required for a thorough investigation. Backup integrity and reinfection risk: Restoring systems after an attack is tricky 63% of organizations risk reinfection because their backups contain malicious code.

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Murphy's Law and the lessons of the CrowdStrike outage

Acronis

These lessons learned from the CrowdStrike outage can help your business better defend itself against such incidents.

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