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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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4 top disaster recovery packages compared

Network World

Whether the disaster is a flood, a power outage or human error, IT departments have the critical role of getting business systems working again. And that requires reliable disaster-recovery software. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story)

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Top DRaaS companies to watch

Network World

Forrester Research recently released its report naming Sungard AS, Bluelock, IBM and iland as the top disaster recovery-as-a-service companies. With enterprises expecting their network up at all times, backup and recovery are key to keeping things running smoothly with no downtime.

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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

This article aims to provide you with a practical framework to improve your enterprise data protection. On the secondary storage front, you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. But where do you start? That is the question.

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Respond to ransomware in three steps: secure, assess, recover

Network World

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Also, you have followed all best practices to ensure maximum data availability, so it’s likely your backups and disaster recovery sites were impacted as well.

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New HIPAA guidance addresses ransomware

Network World

Department of Human Services has released new guidance for health care organizations that focuses on the growing threat of ransomware, stresses the need for better education and regular backups, and confirms that a ransomware attack against plain-text health information is, in fact, a breach that must be disclosed.

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Why DRaaS is a better defense against ransomware

Network World

But, restoring these databases and apps from a traditional backup solution (appliance, cloud or tape) will take hours or even days which can cost a business tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here