Category: Disaster Recovery
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The Cost of Convenience: Why Easy Data Decisions Get Expensive Fast
Convenience-first IT decisions often hide serious data risks. Learn why cloud platforms do not eliminate responsibility and how resilient backup strategies prevent costly failures.
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Why Hybrid Backup Wins: Building Real Resilience in a World of Constant Risk
Hybrid backup reduces risk by eliminating single points of failure. Learn why combining on-prem and cloud backups creates more resilient, verifiable data protection for modern businesses.
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Beyond the Buzzword: What Data Resilience Really Means in 2026
Data resilience goes beyond backups. Learn what it really means in 2026, why it matters for business continuity, and how organizations reduce risk, downtime, and data loss.
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DRaaS: Reliable Disaster Recovery with low RPO and RTO, the Easy Way
All businesses need to have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Everyone knows storms can damage buildings (including the server room), cyberattacks can evade security measures, and people make mistakes that lead to data loss. The question becomes, how can a business recover its data and keep operations running? Unfortunately, some business leaders’ DR plan isn’t…
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We asked almost 500 IT professionals for their most challenging Backup and Disaster Recovery Questions
THREE BIG BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY THEMES EMERGED – AND WE’VE GOT ANSWERS! This blog post has been updated in May 2022 to provide greater information by expanding upon previous answers and include a reference to our 30-day, risk-free Veeam trial offer for you. In November 2020, Virtual Systems cohosted a live event with Veeam…
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Meet Our Client: LBM Advantage
Business Continuity Is a High-Stakes Strategy A business continuity strategy enables an enterprise or organization to keep essential operations running if a natural disaster, a network outage, or even a global pandemic occurs. This blog is part of our series spotlighting our clients and unpacking how disaster recovery cloud solutions help organizations reach their business…
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Take a Big-Picture Perspective When Planning for Business Continuity
A business continuity plan has always been essential for successful companies. Bottom line: Businesses need to stay open to keep customers happy and maintain a revenue stream. As companies transitioned from legacy to digital processes, planning for business continuity shifted. Companies went from archived paper copies to prioritizing access to data and systems when servers…
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6 Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery Trends to Watch in 2022
Everyone who’s done work on a computer has made this mistake at least once: you spend hours working on a project, and then your computer’s hardware fails or a file becomes corrupted. Your work disappears in a split second. The pain is almost tangible. Now, imagine every business’ worst-case scenario when it comes to cybersecurity.…
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Hyper-V: How to Back up Virtual Machines
Fact: most workloads run on virtual servers. Spiceworks’ 2020 State of Virtualization Technology report states that 92 percent of businesses have transitioned to virtual servers. Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a popular choice for virtualizing workloads, but VMWare is the overall leader in the hypervisor space. Based on total market-share, many backup and disaster recovery (BDR) service…
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Your Essential Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
You can operate your business without a comprehensive disaster plan, but it’s a dangerous option. In our data-driven, work from anywhere world, security breaches are on the rise. And if you’re not prepared for downtime, either due to a hardware failure, malicious act, or natural disaster, you could lose money, trust, and even your business.…
