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Ransomware: It’s coming for your backup servers

Network World

Backup and recovery systems are at risk for two types of ransomware attacks: encryption and exfiltration – and most on-premises backup servers are wide open to both. This makes backup systems themselves the primary target of some ransomware groups, and warrants special attention. To read this article in full, please click here

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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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Make sure your laptop backups can handle ransomware

Network World

With increasingly mobile workforces, it’s important to effectively backup corporate data that resides on laptops, which requires a unique set of features not found in traditional backup systems used for desktops attached to corporate LANs. Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster.

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Juniper software triggers network response to threats

Network World

Juniper Networks continues to grow its enterprise cloud- security family with a new product that promises to protect application workloads in any cloud or on-premises environment. Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster. To read this article in full, please click here

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Ransomware: How to make sure backups are ready for a real attack

Network World

The best way to avoid paying ransom to attackers who have infected your systems with ransomware is to have those systems adequately backed up so you can wipe them and restore them from safe backups. Here are several options for making sure those backups are up to the task.

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The role of autonomous networks in cutting costs and carbon emissions

TM Forum

The ability of autonomous networks (AN) to slash CSPs’ energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly apparent, with a recent pilot by China Mobile saving 475 million kWh of electricity and reducing carbon emissions by 373,000 tons over the past year. A single site can save about 35,000 kWh of electricity per year.

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Operational drivers of autonomous networks

TM Forum

A recent TM Forum survey showed that one of the five main drivers of autonomous networks is reducing costs through operational transformation. Autonomous networks: business and operational drivers. explores the impact of network automation on operations. Autonomous networks: business and operational drivers. external_url.

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