If you run IT for a small business, backup is one line on a list that also includes password resets, patching, a laptop for the person starting Monday, and whatever the security dashboard flagged overnight. It's easy to postpone, because nothing visibly breaks when you postpone it. Until something does. If that list sounds familiar, I know the feeling. Read more

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1, part of Veeam Data Platform Premium Edition, is here with quality-of-life improvements that make data orchestration simpler and more flexible. Read more

You know your backups are immutable. You know retention is enforced. You know your DR plan works because you’ve tested it. But when an auditor, insurer, or regulator asks you to prove it, “knowing” and “showing” turn out to be very different problems. Read more

Salesforce budgets are under pressure from a new direction. Teams are shifting spend toward Agentforce and other AI initiatives, and that often means less money left over for the storage and resilience work that keeps Salesforce running well. Read more

Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 introduced Direct to Amazon S3 Glacier for VM-based GFS backups, letting Grandfather-Father-Son restore points move straight from a Performance Tier repository to Glacier-class storage without a Capacity Tier in between. Read more

On June 23, the White House released President Trump's America First Resilience Strategy, built around a goal stated plainly: No adversary or hazard should be able to hold America or our core interests at risk. Along the way, the strategy asks for something more specific. It wants disciplined commitments that produce measurable resilience. Read more

Backup software hidden costs are the licensing, storage, support, and recovery expenses that don’t appear in the initial quote but grow as your hardware, data, and contracts change. For a small business with a lean IT team, or no dedicated IT team at all, hidden costs tend to surface at the worst moment: a renewal invoice that jumped, a storage bill that doubled, or a restore that came with a fee nobody budgeted for. Read more

Offsite, air-gapped, immutable, and recoverable are four different properties. Most backup strategies in Asia Pacific deliver one of them but assume they have all four. Read more

If you've been managing IT infrastructure for a federal agency for any length of time, you know the U.S. Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL). Read more

If you run backups at a small company, you're probably the only person who does. No security team to escalate to, no second admin to catch what the console doesn't surface, and no budget for discovering mid-incident that a control you assumed you had sits two tiers up. Read more