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Why an air-gap is so important How can you best secure your data in our world of large networks and clouds? The answer is simple: do not connect data with valuable information to the Internet or even a network. So…
Beware of software-based security! It may sound like an open door, but we don’t always realize it: virtual is synonymous with “not real” or “a reality created in memories of computers. Too often we think of “virtual” as reality, but…
Saving archive costs: here’s how to do it! Many companies use SAP software. Invoices, packing slips, business documents: it all runs through SAP. Similarly, SAP puts documents in the archive, and that archive obviously needs storage space. For example, a…
The ifs and buts of S3 storage A good repository for your digital archive is hugely important. We told you that in our previous blog. What is important is the realization that large players in the marketplace do not necessarily…
Thoughtful backup. Secure archive. Reliable storage. The first three of our series of guides on best practices for backup with e.g. Veeam Backup & Replication are available on our website available for download . Guide #1 describes daily incremental backup,…
2021: stay vigilant for viruses! The year 2020 will go down in the history books as “the year of the coronavirus,” and that is completely understandable and justified. Yet in our industry, we also noted the emergence of other viruses,…
Why you should or should not dedupe Deduplication is the technique of eliminating duplicate data in storage. Deduplication systems are widely used in backup storage; they readily calculate reachable rates as 20:1, which is partly true, but if you assume…
Note! Ransomware attacks on the data store layer! Ransomware represents for many businesses and organizations and outright threat. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a computer and/or data. It then demands a ransom from the user to free the computer and…
Limit the restoretime! It sounds logical and it is: the less data in the backup, the faster you can restore and thus the faster you are up and running again. Separation of active and archival data We talk about it…
Why offsite backup is really necessary Backup and archive data are best protected offsite, for the simple reason that these data cannot then be unauthorized damaged by ransomware, hackers or sabotage. Of course, data can also be accidentally corrupted, by…
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