Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Data Privacy Day, observed each year on January 28, should serve as an important reminder that safeguarding sensitive information is no longer optional. Unfortunately, some consumers and organizations could use the reminder. Data privacy isn’t just a practice for fending off cyberattacks, although that element is important. It is also a critical part of building trust, meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining business continuity.

VMware offers a wide range of products, and understanding their different use cases may be overwhelming. In this blog post, we cover the differences between three commonly used technologies in VMware environments: It’s important to note that any ESXi vs. vSphere vs. vCenter comparison should start with a caveat: these technologies are complementary rather than substitutes for one another. NAKIVO for VMware vSphere Backup Complete data protection for VMware vSphere VMs and instant recovery options.

Your Azure SQL database contains business-critical data that drives operations, analytics, and customer experiences. Losing this data, even temporarily, can impede revenue, damage customer relationships, and create compliance problems. Learning how to back up an Azure SQL database is essential for business continuity.

Picture this: A ransomware alert fires. Your technician opens the EDR console, checks the backup dashboard, logs in to the email security portal, verifies patch status in the RMM tool and correlates alerts across multiple vendor platforms. By the time they track down the root cause, the infection has already spread. This is more than a technical headache; it’s a profitability crisis.

When disaster strikes—whether it’s a natural catastrophe, a cyberattack, or a simple power outage—your job is to keep things up and running. But where do you even start? Do you need a backup solution, a disaster recovery (DR) solution, or a bit of both? In a recent article, Gartner analyst Michael Hoeck predicted that by 2028, 75% of enterprises will prioritize backing up their SaaS applications, a significant increase from just 15% in 2024.

Walk into any business today and you’ll find Microsoft 365 quietly running everything that matters. It’s the unseen infrastructure behind emails, meetings, documents, and decisions. From a five-person consultancy to...

The IT industry uses many overlapping terms that are often misunderstood. Cybersecurity, cyber protection, cyber resilience, cyber defense, cyber intelligence, cyber readiness — the list keeps growing, and so does the confusion. When these concepts are sometimes used interchangeably, organizations risk making the wrong decisions about how they protect systems, data and business operations. While these concepts are related, they are not the same.

When a cyberattack or natural disaster strikes, the challenge isn’t just restoring data quickly — it’s resuming business operations just as fast. That’s where the distinction between disaster recovery (DR) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) becomes critical for businesses. White paper A practical blueprint for cyber resilience to evolve from prevention to continuity.

Broadcom’s VMware acquisition brought massive pricing changes that caught most IT departments off guard. The company eliminated perpetual licenses, forcing everyone into subscription models while implementing steep VMware license cost increases and new minimum core requirements. These aren’t minor adjustments: Broadcom restructured the entire VMware license pricing model.