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How effective data backup strategies can combat cyber threats?

Dataconomy

Undoubtedly, emphasizing the significance of dependable backups is crucial; they safeguard irreplaceable data and mitigate substantial downtime stemming from cyber threats or unforeseen calamities. Yet, maintaining recent backups enables data restoration, thwarting extortion attempts. Cybersecurity breaches. System malfunctions.

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Biggest pain in backup is lack of storage capacity, survey finds

Computer Weekly

Ever-growing need for more storage is the biggest problem for backup, followed by administration overheads, poor performance, scalability and multi-supplier complexity

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Storage the favourite use case for public cloud customers

Computer Weekly

Despite lingering trust issues, storage and backup are key use cases in the public cloud, says Barracuda survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure is Europe’s favourite cloud provider

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World Backup Day on March 31 Seeks to Protect Data Before It's Gone

SecureWorld News

However, data is as vulnerable as it is valuable, and World Backup Day on Friday, March 31st, is a welcome reminder of the need to have a well thought out data protection strategy in place. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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Mainframe data: hybrid cloud object store vs. tape

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2019, half of enterprises surveyed said their number of mainframe workloads had grown; in 2023, 62% said the same 1. Meanwhile, enterprises are rapidly moving away from tape and other on-premises storage in favor of cloud object stores. Simplification of the environment: Legacy storage systems are complex and often siloed.

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The Toll of Ransomware is Growing

CTOvision

A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute and Carbonite found that 50% of all small and mid-sized businesses have been victims of ransomware and 48% of those businesses paid a ransom. A startling statistic is that just 13% of surveyed companies said they had high levels of preparedness to prevent ransomware.

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The Race to Data-first Modernization Is On

CIO Business Intelligence

According to the results of a recent survey of 750 IT professionals from analyst firm ESG, 93% of IT decision-makers see storage and data management complexity impeding digital transformation. However, only 13% of surveyed organizations could be considered data-first leaders. Let’s look at some real numbers. How much complexity?

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