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The Pros and Cons of All Backup Storage Targets Explained

The Pros and Cons of All Backup Storage Targets Explained

The days of tape-only solutions have come to an end. Other media have caught up to it in cost, capacity, convenience, and reliability. You now have a variety of storage options. Backup applications that can only operate with tape have little value in modern business...

The Foolproof Method of Maintaining your Backup System

The Foolproof Method of Maintaining your Backup System

As you might expect, setting up backup is just the beginning. You will need to keep it running into perpetuity. Similarly, you cannot simply assume that everything will work. You need to keep constant vigilance over the backup system, its media, and everything that it...

Monthly Threat Report November 2023: Holiday Email Threat Increases and More Zero-Days

Monthly Threat Report November 2023: Holiday Email Threat Increases and More Zero-Days

This month’s report highlights a slight increase in spam messages, a higher brand impersonation attempts in shipping and finance, ongoing security developments at Microsoft, a significant vulnerability in Citrix NetScalers, and legal actions against SolarWinds and their CISO for fraud and security lapses related to the 2020 SunBurst incident.
How to Get the Absolute Most Out of Your Backup Software

How to Get the Absolute Most Out of Your Backup Software

In the past, we could not capture a consistent backup. Operations would simply read files on disk in order as quickly as possible. But, if a file changed after the backup copied it but before the job completed, then the backup’s contents were inconsistent. If another...

The new Backup Bible