Why do people trust a company or a third party when it comes to customers’ data storage? What identifies a company as a trusted or untrusted one? How can a company that deals with confidential data show that it is reliable and worth customers’ attention without pronouncing a word? The answer is SOC 2.
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Xopero ONE v. 1.2.5 – VMware Test Restore Plan and more
Xopero ONE Backup & Recovery version 1.2.5 is already available and includes a whole series of ground-breaking features and improvements. Let’s take a look at the most remarkable ones:
Read moreMicrosoft Shared Responsibility Model – understanding your role
In a traditional on-premises data center, the organization that owns it is responsible for managing security incidents, including the mitigation and remediation of any dangerous incident. On the other hand, if the company uses Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings (Azure, AWS) security for infrastructure is the provider’s responsibility. In the Software-as-a-Service model, specifically in Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and making sure data is available and accessible while users are responsible for protecting their Microsoft 365 data. It means the user is responsible for restoring lost, stolen, deleted, or compromised data and it should be quite logical and obvious. In the end, it’s the user’s data, right?
Read moreXopero ONE v. 1.2.0 – replication, Wasabi and Backblaze B2 storage support
Xopero ONE Backup & Recovery version 1.2.0 is already available and includes a whole series of ground-breaking features and improvements. Let’s take a look at the most remarkable ones:
Read moreHow to use VMware vSphere automation with PowerCLI – first steps
The scale of a virtualized environment might vary greatly. As a system administrator, you probably know that it’s critical to set it up consistently and automate as many processes as possible – no matter the actual size.
If you’re using VMware ESX / ESXi hypervisors with vCenter as your management software, you already have a lot of automated options at your disposal to help you keep your infrastructure running smoothly. In this article, we will talk about VMware vSphere PowerCLI, which is an automation tool for Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell command-line tool.
Read moreRunning Kubernetes on VMware vSphere
If you work in the IT industry, you’ve probably heard the term “Kubernetes,” which is typically used in association with containers technology. Containers may be really beneficial when it comes to developing apps. Kubernetes was intended to address many of the issues that come with deploying applications, most notably by automating and orchestrating deployments and availability. In this article, we will take a closer look at how Kubernetes works with VMware.
Read moreIntro to the virtualization: types, benefits, and disadvantages you should consider
Virtual machines stormed the IT world, bringing new ways of running IT environments. In a world where the amount of data gathered, transformed, and stored skyrocketed, there sprouted a need for more powerful hardware or optimization of usage of the existing one. And there the VMs are a great solution. In this article, we will discuss the types of virtualization. We will also take a closer look at the benefits and downsides of virtualization and virtualizing your infrastructure.
Read more3-2-1 backup rule – how to protect your business against data loss and downtimes
What exactly does the 3-2-1 backup rule mean? And why do so many security specialists emphasize incorporating the rule into a data protection strategy? Does fulfilling three basic requirements could eliminate the consequences of business downtime due to outages, cyber-attacks, or natural disasters?
Read moreHow does granular recovery work and what do you need to know about it
In the modern office environment, every person working on projects generates huge amounts of data. Emails, datasheets, presentations, databases, documents, and many many more. Protecting this information is very important from the business standpoint, so usually, organizations tend to use backups as the mean of protecting their data. But backup is only one part of the equation. What would you do if somehow you lose that data? Well, you probably want to quickly and easily recover it. Then you should think about setting up a granular recovery (alt. granular restore) plan which is also the main topic of this article.
Read moreHow to recover deleted emails in Office 365
While working in the office environment there is a need for employees to communicate with each other, and the most common way to communicate is via email. When users want to send each other important information via email it’s stored in their mailboxes, but there is always a possibility that an email gets lost, or gets deleted. But if you have a proper backup of your Office 365 emails that Xopero Software provides, you will have no problem if you want to recover deleted emails in Office 365. In this article, we will take a look at how to do it with Xopero ONE
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