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Introduction For nearly three decades, traditional backup systems have formed the backbone of data protection. But as workloads have moved to hybrid and cloud environments, and as compliance expectations have tightened, [...]

Most organizations still talk about backup. Boards, regulators, and insurers increasingly ask for something different: evidence of restore. That shift sounds subtle; it isn’t. It moves us from a checkbox technology purchase to [...]

MSPs today operate at the intersection of rising regulatory obligations, intensifying cybercrime, and relentless economic pressure. At the same time, the market is reshaping under the weight of private equity and [...]

Working with enterprises and MSPs, I frequently meet OT environments built decades ago, now tightly connected to IT and business outcomes. The risk is two-sided: criminal ransomware and geopolitical probing of industrial [...]

Elevating Backup from a Compliance Task to a Strategic Business Asset The Heat Is On… We are still in the early days of 2025 and from our engagements with customers and [...]

As I was flying home from a business meeting in Marseille a couple of weeks back, I was reflecting on the conversations with both highly technical leadership staff and business executives. [...]

When a calendar year has ended, I usually reflect on the many insightful conversations and engagements we have had with customers and partners. This year is no different, and one topic [...]

As we are now well underway in 2024/Q4, I must – yet again – conclude that the cyber threat landscape is "the talk-of-the-town". Not many customer and partner conversations this year [...]

At B4Restore we are privileged in the sense that we collaborate closely with customers and partners across multiple industries. The benefits for us are legion as we are exposed to different [...]

In my conversations with both customers and partners, the central topic is often [people] – the precious staff we all rely on in terms of being able to do "our thing", [...]