For IT teams today, backup management has become untenable. Data volume and infrastructure complexity continue to grow exponentially. New threats from bad actors come online every day. The financial and reputational costs of downtime keep going up. It is increasingly hard to find IT professionals, especially in cybersecurity. The list goes on.

Your cloud journey doesn't have to be an odyssey. Let's consider the current state of IT and infrastructure: what we refer to as Digital Transformation is simply the significant trend in recent years of businesses working to modernize their operations and leverage the power of new technologies.

By migrating enterprise workloads to the AWS Cloud, organizations across the globe are maximizing price-to-performance and reaping the benefits of modernization. With this program, Opti9 will show you how to save on third-party licensing costs and run your resources more efficiently. Our eBook, Reduce Licensing Costs and Modernize Enterprise Workloads, shares expert guidance on identifying your right-sized resources, exploring flexible licensing options, and reducing overall costs.

Before cloud computing achieved mainstream adoption across organizations worldwide, independent software vendors (ISVs) often required customers to purchase and manage commercial databases to run their applications. This practice imposes the high costs and restrictions of commercial database licensing on their customers, raising their total cost of ownership while hindering the customer's ability to deploy and consume applications in a way that best aligns with their needs.

The following guidelines will help senior stakeholders set strategy to secure modern applications, learning: Applications are the operational mechanism for how a modern enterprise conducts transactions and uses data. Whether internal or customer-facing, apps are critical for your successful business operations. That means securing apps should be a business priority.

In this comprehensive Q2-2023 report, we reflect on an intensified API threat landscape, underlining prevalent threat vectors, susceptible APIs, and new dimensions in the API security arena. With the inclusion of bug bounty analysis and our inaugural API Security Awards, this report provides granular insights into the current state of API security.

This 2022 recap report looks back at the deteriorating API threat landscape, the most prevalent types of threat vectors, the most vulnerable types of APIs, and much more to provide API security and DevOps teams the data-driven insights needed to improve API security in 2023. One of the main take-aways is that the API threat landscape is becoming ever more dangerous. We make this assessment based on the 2022 data, and specifically these four trends.

Your backups may be the most valuable assets your company owns, as they are the first line of defense in the face of threats - whether they're caused by mother nature or human nature. No matter what the disruption, the survival of your organization relies on your confidence in knowing your backups are readily available, sound, and most importantly, recoverable. Because without a recovery plan, your backups are essentially ineffectual.