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disaster recovery (DR)

Australia's Channel 9 hit by cyber attack during live broadcast
The headquarters for Australia's Channel 9 TV station
cyber attacks

Australia's Channel 9 hit by cyber attack during live broadcast

A separate IT outage at Australia's Parliament House sparks fears of a coordinated attack
29 Mar 2021
Best data recovery tools 2021: Restore your lost files
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data recovery

Best data recovery tools 2021: Restore your lost files

Deleted partitions and corrupted disks don’t need to mean irretrievable folders
18 Mar 2021
OVH data centre fire shows backups should be standard, founder says
The SGB2 facility in Strasbourg damaged by fire
data centres

OVH data centre fire shows backups should be standard, founder says

Octave Klaba suggests many customers incorrectly assumed backups were a default part of their contract
18 Mar 2021
Investigation underway into cause of OVH data centre fire
Fire damage caused to OVH's SGB2 data centre
data centres

Investigation underway into cause of OVH data centre fire

French firm urges customers across Europe to trigger disaster recovery plans
11 Mar 2021
What is cloud-to-cloud backup?
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cloud backup

What is cloud-to-cloud backup?

C2C backup is growing in popularity, so what is it, and how can it help your business if the worst happens?
1 Mar 2021
What is DNS?
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Domain Name System (DNS)

What is DNS?

We explain what DNS is, how it works, and how outages can be avoided
12 Jan 2021
Google buys Actifio to bring disaster recovery to Google Cloud
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disaster recovery (DR)

Google buys Actifio to bring disaster recovery to Google Cloud

Google says the deal will help enterprises to manage business-critical workloads
3 Dec 2020
Why you need to include the cloud in your disaster recovery plan
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disaster recovery (DR)

Why you need to include the cloud in your disaster recovery plan

Preserving data for business success
17 Nov 2020
Up to 350,000 people affected by Capcom ransomware attack
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ransomware

Up to 350,000 people affected by Capcom ransomware attack

Update following the initial disclosure suggests personal information and sensitive corporate material was compromised
16 Nov 2020
Email archiving systems: The forgotten element of cyber security
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cyber security

Email archiving systems: The forgotten element of cyber security

With cyber criminals ready to pounce on overlooked systems, there's no time to lose
11 Nov 2020
Twitter pins global outage on unscheduled 'system change'
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social media

Twitter pins global outage on unscheduled 'system change'

The brief outage heavily disrupted several of the firm's APIs including Enterprise Search and its Engagement API
16 Oct 2020
Microsoft suffers second global outage in a week
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Microsoft Office

Microsoft suffers second global outage in a week

Tech giant has rolled back another update after it caused further instability with Microsoft 365 services
1 Oct 2020
Reducing downtime for SAP HANA
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Whitepaper

Reducing downtime for SAP HANA

Automating high availability and disaster recovery with Red Hat
27 Aug 2020
Keep your data available with snapshot technology
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Whitepaper

Keep your data available with snapshot technology

Synology’s solution to your data protection problem
24 Jul 2020
Introducing VMDR: Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response
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Whitepaper

Introducing VMDR: Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response

The all-in-one vulnerability management service
21 Jul 2020
The essential guide to cloud-based backup and disaster recovery
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cloud backup

The essential guide to cloud-based backup and disaster recovery

Support business continuity by building a holistic emergency plan
2 Mar 2020
MPs blast ‘unacceptable’ rise in online banking failures
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IT infrastructure

MPs blast ‘unacceptable’ rise in online banking failures

Select committee also brandishes third-party cloud providers as a "source of systemic risk"
28 Oct 2019
British Airways flights disrupted by major IT outage
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disaster recovery (DR)

British Airways flights disrupted by major IT outage

Close to 300 flights have been cancelled or delayed
7 Aug 2019
What Sheryl Crow can teach us about data protection
Sheryl Crow
backup

What Sheryl Crow can teach us about data protection

The country singer’s experience offers a cautionary tale for IT admins
28 Jun 2019
The IT Pro guide to disaster recovery
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disaster recovery (DR)

The IT Pro guide to disaster recovery

What will you do when disaster strikes?
12 Jun 2019
Why cloud should be part of your disaster recovery strategy
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disaster recovery (DR)

Why cloud should be part of your disaster recovery strategy

Cloud-based solutions can help support businesses of all sizes through unplanned downtime
7 Jun 2019
British Airways sues data centre supplier for 2017 outage
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data centres

British Airways sues data centre supplier for 2017 outage

The filing claims US outsourcing company CBRE was to blame for the network fault
22 Nov 2018
Failed NHS IT system will cost £7m to stabilise
Clinician's computer meltdown
IT infrastructure

Failed NHS IT system will cost £7m to stabilise

Lorenzo failure saw NHS Trust declare a ‘serious incident’ after 14,600 patient discharge summaries were not sent to GPs
19 Sep 2018
ICO website knocked offline for more than 24 hours
Information Commissioner

ICO website knocked offline for more than 24 hours

The outage was caused by an “unprecedented electrical surge” that damaged its host’s circuits
23 Aug 2018