We’re excited to announce that Gartner positioned us as a “Visionary” in their 2016 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). With a lot of vendors competing in the space, we’re thrilled to be ranked high in both our “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute”. You can get your complimentary DRaaS Gartner report […]
Ransomware is on the rise and here to stay. It’s why organizations are scrambling to develop plans and adopt solutions to protect their company from this threat. Are current backup and recovery best practices good enough? Gartner recently issued their guidance on how organizations can protect themselves against ransomware. (Source: Gartner, Use These Five Backup and […]
While our enterprise cloud backup solution continues to help companies defeat ransomware, we’re excited to strengthen our platform with a new anomaly detection feature that will alert users and admins that something unusual is happening on their machines before the ransom is initiated. It’s an early warning system that enables companies to quickly isolate a ransomware […]
Another day. More Ransomware attacks. The number one cyber security threat is growing and your company needs the best enterprise cloud backup defense. To help companies protect their data and avoid paying a ransom, we are excited to announce our free 60 day cloud backup trial, which includes: Complete Environment Protection: Servers, PCs, Macs, and mobile […]
You know the basics (i.e. email security, anti-virus, anti-malware), but as more companies continue to discover, this isn’t enough. The reality is that employees will accidentally click on phishing emails, software will not be updated, and attacks will get more sophisticated. In an ever-changing ransomware landscape, how does IT stay two steps ahead of cybercriminals? […]
Michael Coppola, President of CJIS solutions is at the forefront of protecting his customers (mostly law enforcement agencies) from ransomware. Recently, a customer called in a panic indicating that their primary police files had fallen victim to the crypto virus. The files were appended with an “.exx” extension and a ransom text file in each […]
Ransomware attacks are increasing, and so is the price to get your data back and systems running. The FBI recently reported, that ransomware attacks have surged and victims have paid “more than $209 million in ransom payments” in the first three months of this year, compared with $25 million in all of 2015. And while […]
Helping mid-size companies identify key disaster recovery trends and actionable best practices are why we sponsor ActualTech Media’s annual Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Attitudes & Adoption report. We’re excited to share the 2016 report that reveals many surprising insights and alarming results from 274 IT decision makers at companies with 100-5,000 employees. Overall, […]
Uh oh, experts say it could be a messy 2016 hurricane season. The potential movement of a ‘cold blob’ of water in the North Atlantic Ocean could affect the intensity and number of hurricanes this season. So, What Is A “Cold Blob”? The cold blob refers to a large area of colder-than-normal sea-surface temperatures, located […]
With the average cost per hour of downtime for a mid-size business hitting $74,000, every organization should be participating in World Backup Day. In this competitive business landscape, can any company afford downtime? Started in 2011 by a “bunch of reddit users”, March 31st has become an important awareness day for both consumers and businesses. With […]
Have you heard the story about how blind-luck saved Toy Story 2? Greg Brandeau, former SVP of Technology at Pixar remembers the day well and shares his experience of finding out that their backup system failed and that they didn’t have a copy of the film on any server. His cautionary tale reminds us all […]
Disaster recovery has a come a long way. For the first time, new cloud-backed disaster recovery a service (DRaaS) solutions are making it possible for mid-size companies to afford enterprise-grade failover. But there is one legacy defect that very few Disaster Recovery vendors have modernized and it’s costing you thousands of dollars in upfront and […]