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

These days, it’s not enough to say an application is protected. Security, risk, and compliance teams want to know where a backup lives, who can access it, whether it can be changed or deleted, how consistently policy is applied, and when recovery was last tested. Read more

Every backup vendor's feature list looks roughly the same. Immutable storage. Ransomware detection. Automated recovery. The phrases are nearly identical from one product page to the next, and none of them tell you which one would actually get your business running again after a bad week. Read more

An employee takes a call from a friendly voice claiming to be internal IT. The caller is following up on an issue and finishing it should only take a few minutes. The employee cannot recall opening a ticket, and with work waiting, they download the “help tool” as instructed, approve remote access to the computer, and get back to what they were doing. The whole thing is forgotten by lunch. Read more

Traditional software fails by producing the wrong answer. An AI agent fails by taking the wrong action. And, by the time anyone notices, the records are deleted, the permissions are revoked, and the change is live in production. Read more