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In order to select an appropriate backup solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. How many copies of the data and where do you want to store it? Do you want to do the recommended 3-2-1 backup solution so 3 copies of the data.
To help organisations secure and protect their important business data, Proact, Europe's leading independent data centre and cloud services provider, has launched BaaS-O365 - a new backup and recovery service for customers using Microsoft Office 365. BaaS-O365 is a new managed service from Proact that provides complete backup and recovery for Office 365 Business/Enterprise data, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
Veeam Software, the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced the general availability of NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, an enterprise-ready cloud backup and recovery solution. With NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, Veeam extends its broad platform support with a comprehensive, enterprise-ready solution for added backup and recovery controls of Azure apps and data hosted on Azure virtual machines.
In a move calculated to make a dent in the data protection landscape, leading data management solutions vendor, Parablu, announced the launch of their SaaS backup solution - BluVault for Microsoft Office 365. Parablu's BluVault for Office 365 enables secure cloud backup and recovery and lets enterprises create a redundant copy of their SaaS data assets.
BackUp Maker from ASCOMP backs up personal or business data automatically, while it also impresses with its intuitive functionality. BackUp Maker enables data backup for Windows that's so simple users do not need prior data-backup expertise.
The question now becomes, is backup alone enough, or is full disaster recovery required to mitigate the effect of ransomware? By 'disaster recovery', we mean the full gamut of backing up data, recovering that data, and business restitution without loss of business continuity. A good backup system will allow rapid if not immediate recovery minimizing the loss of data to an annoyance rather than a disaster.
"Data protection can come into play in a wide array of important ways - including data security and encryption, data recovery, email protection and data archiving. It also provides the ability to recover quickly from a disaster, protection from and mitigation of ransomware, and physical device protection. Plus, it can prevent user error," said Reeder. Top executives in education see data backup and data recovery as the most important aspects of data protection.
A regular and reliable backup process will protect you from unexpected data loss of any sort, including cases - as many people will have experienced when coronavirus lockdowns started and they couldn't get back into the office - where your data isn't lost, but you can't get at it anyway. If ransomware strikes your entire network, or a power surge takes out your laptop where you keep your backup drive plugged in all the time, then you no longer have a backup.
A vulnerability addressed recently in the WPvivid Backup Plugin could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website, web security company WebARX reveals. WPvivid Backup Plugin is a free and open-source plugin that allows users to easily backup, migrate, and restore their WordPress installations to new hosts, or send backups to remote storage.
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