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Recoverability Is the New Resilience Metric
Why Boards Need Evidence, Not Confidence For years, resilience has been discussed in reassuring terms. Redundancy. Availability. Maturity models. Traffic lights on dashboards that glow green until the day they don’t. [...]
Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Why Data Protection Decisions Cannot Wait
Every organization believes it has more time than it does. In day-to-day operations, data protection rarely competes with urgent revenue, systems migrations, or staff shortages. Most leaders know they should modernize [...]
Traditional Backup vs. B4Restore DPaaS: Why the Old Model Can’t Keep Up
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, [...]
From “We Have Backups” to “We Can Prove Restore” – A CTO’s Note to the C-Suite
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 at the Crossroads: Compliance, Continuity, and the Next Wave of Growth
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 [...]
Securing IT-OT Convergence with Air-Gapped Recovery
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 [...]
Aligning Backup as a Service and Security Operations
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 [...]
NIS2 Drives Business Continuity as a Service Adoption
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. [...]
NIS2 Directive and the Role of Backup-as-a-Service in Ensuring Business Resilience
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 [...]
Data Protection and Backup-as-a-Service go together
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 [...]
