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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.   

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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.

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NAKIVO Announces v9.0 to Include VM Backup for Windows Server

In the dynamic world of cloud-native applications, the security and accessibility of data is more important than ever. NAKIVO is an organization dedicated to virtual machine backup and recovery solutions for environments such as VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2 environments. NAKIVO has recently released v9.0 of its Backup and Replication solution to include VM backup for Windows Server. It’s a significant release, and as such, it introduces a major feature, along with various improvements and fixes. With this release, NAKIVO Backup and Replication now offers a complete data protection feature set for virtualized environments, including local and offsite VM Backup and Replication, support for live applications and databases, instant granular recovery, network acceleration, global data deduplication, Web UI, AES-256 encryption, advanced reporting, and cloud support.

Evolution of VM Backup Solutions

In earlier days, taking a backup of data from a virtualized environment was not an easy task. Backup solutions used by corporations in the past were unreliable, very expensive, and very time-consuming. With the advent of virtualization technology, backups became even more complicated.

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Hacks to Secure Your Data in Cloud

For the digital era, the cloud has proved to be a huge blessing. It enables storing large amounts of information — photos, videos, music, messages, etc. with a limited budget. With the dawn of the Internet, backing up data became much easier by storing it on the server rather than a hard drive. Also, data can be accessed using Internet-enabled devices. It is fascinating to know that the birth of the Internet has made it possible to squirrel away a huge amount of data without buying extra storage devices like memory sticks or hard drives. Recently, with technological advancements, we have seen Google Docs and Gmail taking the place of Microsoft Word and Outlook Express. But, the raised concerned is data security in the cloud. Have you ever asked yourself the question: is your data secure on the Internet?

We have seen too many cases of data hacking in the past. In 2011, Sony’s PlayStation Network carried all the news channels by storm for its news of data hacking. A huge amount of user information was compromised. Also, in September 2018, we came across news of Facebook security breach exposing more than 50 million user accounts. This was the largest breach in the last 14 years of the company’s history, affecting millions of lives by compromising their personal information.