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Background: Immutable Storage
The rise of cyber attacks demands stronger protection of data and backups. This is why immutable storage is becoming increasingly popular. But immutability is nothing new at all. For those who remember, it was already possible to prevent overwriting of audio cassettes by breaking out a tab on the top. What is new about immutability is its use in the area of object storage, where data is write-protected for a certain period of time by so-called object locking. However, automatic snapshots, WORM sealing and Air Gap are also methods of storing data “immutably” and thus protecting it from unintentional or unauthorized deletion or manipulation. So what matters?
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BackgroundVersion: 2022-08
Background: Immutable Storage
The rise of cyber attacks demands stronger protection of data and backups. This is why immutable storage is becoming increasingly popular. But immutability is nothing new at all. For those who remember, it was already possible to prevent overwriting of audio cassettes by breaking out a tab on the top. What is new about immutability is its use in the area of object storage, where data is write-protected for a certain period of time by so-called object locking. However, automatic snapshots, WORM sealing and Air Gap are also methods of storing data “immutably” and thus protecting it from unintentional or unauthorized deletion or manipulation. So what matters?
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YoutubeVersion: 2020-06
Veeam & FAST LTA: The Backup Webinar
Benedikt Däumling (Veeam) and René Weber (FAST LTA) are explaining the basics of a Veeam Backup & Replication setup utilizing FAST LTA Silent Bricks as backup storage.
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Background4/25/2022
Sustainable IT - Long-Term & Energy-Efficient Archiving of Data
Data archiving is exposed to special requirements as „long-term storage“. Compared to the usual investment periods of three years, energy consumption and maintenance take on a higher priority in the archive. IT components and providers must also withstand critical selection. We take a close look at the individual aspects and compare technologies.
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Background4/25/2022
Backup-to-Disk: The core element of modern data protection
Various technologies used for data backup have already been declared „dead“ several times. In addition to the perennial favorite – tape – hard disks have also been repeatedly slammed. Flash storage would replace everything, and disk backups would be a thing of the past.The reality is different: Disk backups are gaining in importance. In fact, they are helping to reduce the cost and effort of flash storage and „last line of defense“ technologies.
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Fact Check1/25/2022
Fact check: When did backup become so complicated?
A backup serves to protect against data loss. If an original is lost, you still have a copy as a safeguard, as a "backup". Data protection could be as simple as that in a world without RTO and RPO, ransomware and natural disasters. But today, an IT administrator has to think much more about what a secure, reliable and affordable backup strategy looks like...
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Background10/8/2021
Protecting backups from ransomware
In 2020, the cost of ransomware attacks was more than $20 billion - over twice as much as just two years earlier. The average cost due to downtime is $283,000 - per victim. While ransomware attacks used to be rather broad and without a defined target, there are now much more precise attacks where the ransomware attack is sometimes even only a part of the attack. In this paper you will learn how current ransomware mutations also attack backups and what countermeasures you can take to protect against data loss.
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