Incident Review: Google Cloud Outage

Outages on the Internet always catch you by surprise, whether you are the end user or the Head of Site Reliability trying to keep a clear mind while you execute your incident playbook.

As people in charge of ensuring reliable services for our customers, our normal experience of outages involves surfing a deluge of fire alarms and crisis calls as we work to solve the problem as quickly as we can. We often forget, therefore, what an outage means to the end user.

3 Quick Ways to Export Office 365 Mailbox to PST Effortlessly

A user working in an organization will send and receive a large number of emails during the day. These emails include the most important information that must be extracted for formal purposes. As a result, it should be stored in a personal folder that allows for simple access to the data in the event of a poor internet connection or slow server connectivity. As a result, it is critical to export mailboxes from Office 365 to PST files so that the data can be used as a backup in the event of a future problem. You can do it either manually or automatically.          

Nowadays, Office 365 expands itself in every business organization via its various plans for every type of requirement. For all the business types either, large or small. Microsoft Office 365 has plans for each business requirement. Microsoft Office 365 provides the plan structure as Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, and also provides Microsoft 365 Apps.  

Pros and Cons of Cloud Backup and Recovery

Cloud backup and recovery help businesses prevent data loss and downtime. For SMBs, downtime costs an average of $8000. It costs more for medium-sized and larger organizations. With the threat of ransomware roaming about, cloud backups can’t be an afterthought anymore.

Data protection used to be farther down the priority and budget-allocation list. Today, organizations cannot afford to risk downtime, data loss, and data breaches. Cloud backup and recovery is a popular means of data protection. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at the advantages and disadvantages of cloud backups.   

Top 5 Security Practices for AWS Backup

Make a backup of your backup's backup.

Cloud storage has become increasingly popular in recent years. Many companies choose to migrate their workload to the cloud, attracted by the low costs and high-availability. Although the cloud presents many benefits, most companies are concerned about the security of the data stored within. An effective backup service can help organizations protect their data while benefiting from cloud services.

4 Ways to Cut Costs When Backing up VMs in The Cloud

Data is a valuable asset for any organization. That’s the reason VMs (virtual machines) came to be. Users could perform tasks on a virtualized system that protects and secures data. But, VMs are expensive and that led to the rise of containers. However, VMs can’t be completely eradicated. Various enterprises depend on VMs in one way or another. Huge volumes of critical data are hosted on VMs, so it’s important to back them up because there’s an imminent threat of data loss. Traditionally, enterprises back up their VMs and store these backups in offsite data centers. This is done to have a copy of the data in case the primary data center is affected by a natural calamity or technical failure.

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Cloud Migration Best Practices: How to Move Your Project to Kubernetes

Moving your app or web services to the cloud is more of a must than an option these days. The cloud infrastructure we have today is not only more capable and more stable, but also more scalable. By moving to the cloud, you gain a lot of benefits while also significantly reducing operational stress and costs.

A more popular option now is to move to a container-based cloud environment, with Kubernetes being the most popular method to do so — and the most scalable in the long run. There are three approaches you can take and certain best practices to follow, which we are going to look into in this article.