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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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The New Cyber Protection Space = Data Protection + Cybersecurity

What Is Cyber Protection?

Cyber Protection is an IT industry solution category that merges the existing spaces of data protection and cybersecurity, with an objective of securing the safety and resiliency of application and business data, whether in flight or in storage, across hybrid cloud and distributed device environments against a globally connected attack surface.

Dev and Ops. Containers and Cloud Computing

Some things just go great together. We’re on the cusp of another great combination, as the tectonic forces of market dynamics and modern threats are fusing together two well-established information technology sectors: data protection and cybersecurity -- into a bigger, broader category of solutions for Cyber Protection.

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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.