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Server Backup Best Practices: Five Ways to Keep Your Data Safe

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In today’s digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on the integrity and availability of their data. The backup of your servers is no longer optional; it's essential for business continuity and data protection. Whether you're running a small business, managing data for a larger orga …

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How to Showcase the Value of Managed Backup to Your Customers

Value of Managed Backup

Subscription-based managed backup services provide more long-term value than a perpetual license. They give your customers lower upfront costs, cloud access, continual updates to the latest software, and comprehensive support. And they give you an extra boost of recurring revenue. In …

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Hybrid Backup Delivers Secure Local and Cloud Backups All in One Job

Hybrid Backup

Maintaining multiple backups in separate locations is crucial to ensuring your data is secure and recoverable in the event of a breach or loss. But continuously managing and maintaining multiple backups can be a cumbersome task—especially for managed service providers that need to han …

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Maximize Storage, Minimize Risk: Data Retention Best Practices

Maximize Storage, Minimize Risk: Data Retention Best Practices

The amount of data stored globally is doubling every four years1, with no signs of slowing down. However, 52% of this data has no business, legal, or regulatory value, meaning it’s useless and not critical to business operations.2 The problem is that this "useless" data, along with it …

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Top 3 Data Loss Causes—and 9 Ways to Prevent Them

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Don't suffer when data loss can be prevented. Whether you work for yourself or run a small or medium business, your data is fundamental to keeping everything operating smoothly. Data loss can have a big impact—particularly if you work in an industry where you hold sensitive client inf …

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Essential Guide to NAS as Backup Storage for SMBs

NAS Storage as Backup Medium

81% of businesses use some form of storage array (e.g., SAN, NAS). Source: Spiceworks NAS, or Network Attached Storage, is popular among small and medium-sized businesses. They are convenient to integrate into existing network environments, secure, easy to use, and generally affordabl …

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5 Helpful Tactics for Better Backup (and Restore)

5 Tactics for Better Backup

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, data is at the heart of everything we do. With all the digital data that organizations rely on for their day-to-day operations, it's even more important to make sure nothing happens to it (or, if something does happen, that you can at least rec …

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What Do You Mean OneDrive Isn’t Backup?

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For years now, more and more people have been using "the cloud" to store their files, whether it's Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure cloud services, or any of the other file syncing services out there. Note that I say “file syncing services”, not cloud b …

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Demystifying HIPAA Compliance for Medical Practices and Dentists

As a healthcare professional, you understand the critical role that data plays in your practice. From patient records and Protected Health Information (PHI) to appointment schedules, your data is the lifeblood of your business. And if something happens to that data - a file is lost, o …

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How Ransomware Has Changed the Way We Think About Backup

Ransomware and AI

Backup used to be a way to get your data back when a hard drive failed or a system outlived its purpose. That is, in most cases, you could restore data from a backup made a day or two earlier with little or no data loss. This led to backup strategies that, for example, set retention t …

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