Backup & Recovery/Business Continuity

• Prepping For Disaster: How To Make Sure You’re Prepared For Whatever The Earth Throws At You

  Everyday we seem to read news of a disaster, natural or otherwise, affecting an area or the world. Wildfires and hurricanes in the US, tsunamis and earthquakes in Asia, and heat waves in Europe threaten the lives and livelihoods of people all over the world. Not to mention, the pandemic the world is still currently experiencing. From power outages to the complete loss of infrastructure, being prepared to be without has returned to the forefront of many people’s minds.

• As With Security, Data Backup Should Happen In Layers
• Work From Home May Mean Working From Personal Devices; Don’t Forget Backup And Security
• Cloud Storage vs. Cloud Backup
• What You Need To Know About Backup And Backup As A Service

BACKUP & RECOVERY/BUSINESS CONTINUITY SUPPLIER INSIGHTS

• Rapid Recovery Planning Guide

  The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the worldwide economy, an event unprecedented in modern times. The immediate future is uncertain, and yet we must plan and execute to keep our Solution Provider businesses moving ahead, and continue to serve our shareholders, business partners, customers and employees and their families as well as possible.

• Town Of Colonie Avoids More Than $400,000 In Ransom Due To Appliances And Backup

  The stories of ransomware attacks have unfortunately become more common, especially among municipalities. But, when the Town of Colonie, in the greater Albany, NY region, became the latest to fall prey to a ransomware attempt, the outcome was different than many others thanks to protection from Carbonite. 

• MSP Erases Time Spent On Manual Backup Reporting

  Spirit/21 is a managed service provider (MSP) with deep experience offering IT consulting, management, and digital transformation services to multi-national enterprises. With data backup and protection being one of the MSP’s core service offerings, they strive to ensure streamlined oversight over all internal and external customer environments to maintain high security standards.

• Carbonite Endpoint Encryption: An In-Depth Look At The Encryption Technology Behind Our Premium Endpoint Backup Solution

  As one of our core pillars, addressing the end-to-end security and privacy of data is a primary requirement of Carbonite Endpoint. By utilizing our automated key management and encryption technology in conjunction with our unique data deduplication, both efficiency of data deduplication and security of data can be accomplished. This document describes the end-to-end encryption process and encryption key life cycle management.

• Increase Revenue With Office 365 Backup

  Many IT service providers have moved, or are in the process of moving, their customers to Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 offers a variety of user benefits, including improved security, easier collaboration, increased mobility, and simplified pricing, among other things. It also offers benefits for service providers, such as ease of deployment and management, lower operating costs, and a foot in the door to other cloud services. 

• How MSPs Can Drastically Reduce Backup Storage Capacity Needs

  A major US hospital group’s internal data security and backup team was responsible for managing backups that fully complied with organization and HIPAA regulations while keeping overhead costs as low as possible. Working in a resource-constrained environment, the team knew they had to manage their backup volume and minimize infrastructure usage.