These backup tips don’t need a big project. Five small settings changes that meaningfully improve your protection, each taking under a minute. Not every backup improvement requires a big project or a dedicated afternoon. Here are five genuinely useful settings changes, each taking under a…
Vendor risk assessment matters because the privacy of your customers’ data is only as good as the riskiest vendor in your supply chain. A breakdown of how vendor risk impacts your customers through the backup service provider channel, and what you should ask for from…
IoT backup is different: smart sensors, edge computing devices, and IoT hardware create data that traditional backup approaches weren’t built for.. A practical look at this emerging space and where to start. IoT and edge computing devices — smart sensors, industrial monitoring hardware, edge gateways…
M&A backup due diligence puts unusual demands on data infrastructure. Here’s what backup and compliance teams should think through in advance, including what due diligence teams actually ask for and a pre-M&A readiness checklist. M&A Backup Due Diligence Looks Closer Than Most Expect Mergers and…
A free backup tier is genuinely useful and also comes with tradeoffs that only become visible when you actually need to rely on it. Here’s what to know upfront, not mid-crisis. Free storage tiers are a genuinely good option for plenty of people but “free”…
A backup SLA promising “99.9% uptime” sounds like an incredible achievement until you find out what it means. Everything about how to assess SLAs from backup service providers is explained here. The gap between 99.9% and 99.99% seems negligible on paper – just one more…
Design file backup is easy to overlook because design tools increasingly live in the cloud, which creates a false sense that backup is automatically handled.. Here’s what’s actually covered on each major tool, and a simple monthly habit to close the gap. Design tools have…
Backup for growing teams has to change: the setup that worked at 5 people breaks down somewhere around 15-20. Here’s how to scale it deliberately, with a checklist at each size threshold. Having helped over 500 businesses design their backup strategy, we’ve seen this pattern…
Backup provider security matters because trusting a third party with your data means trusting their security. A look at general patterns in this category, the questions this should prompt, and how encryption architecture changes the risk calculus. Handing a backup provider your data means trusting…
Backup vs archive: “I archived it” and “I backed it up” get used interchangeably — but they solve genuinely different problems.. Here’s the actual distinction, and a simple test to know which one you need. “I archived it” and “I backed it up” get used…