business continuity planning

Business Continuity Planning: How Mid-Market IT Leaders Can Build Resilience and Recover with Confidence

ByAmar Patel

Why Business Continuity Planning Matters For IT leaders at mid-sized companies, business continuity planning has become essential. In today’s always-on business environment, downtime doesn’t just disrupt operations. It threatens revenue, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation. Research from Gartner estimates the average cost of IT downtime at over $5,600 per minute. For companies with limited resources,…

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Achieving 3-2-1 with Veeam

ByAmar Patel

Enterprises of all sizes are radically transforming themselves. They’re moving toward fully digitized operational models. It’s having a profound effect on backup infrastructure and processes. In the old days, backup was done once a day onto tape, which was then physically transported to an offsite facility somewhere. As a result, IT pros often measured recovery…

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Protecting Data Beyond the Firewall in SaaS

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Data and applications no longer live exclusively inside the firewall. With so much of the workforce remote during the pandemic, organizations ramped up their transition to the cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS). And for SMBs, SaaS has been a particularly important initiative. According to the IDG 2020 Cloud Computing Survey, IT management expects to “reduce their…

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If You’re Not Testing Your Data Backup and Recovery Services…

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When it comes to data protection, completing the backup and replication process isn’t enough, you need to be testing your data backup and recovery services. Backing up at frequent intervals throughout the day isn’t enough. Storing the backups safely isn’t enough. It’s all for naught unless you test your backups, because, without regular testing, all of…

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How to Manage Data: Disaster Recovery as a Service vs BaaS & IaaS

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve introduced you to – and educated you on – three of the most common services offered around disaster recovery. You may find that more than one service could be used to meet your needs. But are you supposed to choose just one? Would that even work for you? This…

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World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline & Veeam Cloud Connect

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World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. Only a year earlier, Google, Microsoft and Amazon launched their cloud services. It was a time when most IT functions were still overseen by technology generalists, including the now mission-critical task of backing up data. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to…

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Wondering about Testing your Backups? Rick Vanover from Veeam can Help

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Insights on DRAAS Testing Enterprise data is at risk from so many sources, from cyber crimes to natural disasters. So, one would think the importance of backup testing would be obvious to all.  Unfortunately, many organizations are still lagging in this critical function. It all but ensures that when data systems go down the damage…

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Veeam Data Protection: Remote Cloud Backup for Remote Work

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According to a recent survey by Owl Labs, nearly 70% of full time employees in the U.S. now work from home. Further, 84% feel that after COVID-19, the ability to continue doing so will make them happier, many adding they’d take a pay cut to work remotely. Further, in a survey of middle-market companies conducted…

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DRaaS vs BaaS: Why Your Company Might Want Both

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If you don’t know Jason Buffington, vice president of solutions strategy for Veeam, you really should. He’s a former analyst with ESG, where he did a ton of work around backup and disaster recovery (DR), and he’s all over LinkedIn, Twitter, the Veeam blog and other platforms giving advice to IT about how to ensure…

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Do Cloud Backup Services Meet 3-2-1 Compliance?

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Cloud backup services like Veeam, have a lot going for them as backup and disaster recovery (DR) targets. In fact, some in the backup community say that using only a cloud backup solution is enough to meet the 3-2-1 rule (three copies of the data in two different media with one offsite). There is a healthy debate about if…

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How Cloud Backup Solutions and Correct Media Can Help with 3-2-1

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With the 3-2-1 rule, the middle part of the maxim says that an organization needs to have copies of its data on at least two different kinds of media. If you want to be technical about it, you could make two backup copies of all data on tape, ship one copy off to a storage…