Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at four ways your organization can benefit from having a strong data backup and recovery system. The value of data in today’s market cannot be highlighted enough. With so much emphasis given to data, it is only sensible to ensure that we put measures in place to ensure this data is protected from prying eyes and is safe from being lost.

As the digital age advances, safeguarding your data becomes more crucial for all businesses than before. But what happens when that data is suddenly lost, whether due to a hardware failure, theft, or malware attack? The consequences can result in heavy loss. That’s why World Backup Day, observed on March 31st, serves as a timely reminder to protect your valuable business data.

In view of the constantly emerging threats, more and more companies are understanding that they need to level up their responses to risks and adopt more strategic compliance operations, leaving checkbox compliance behind. According to the 2024 IT Risk and Comliance Benchmark Report, the number of companies that have started paying more attention to security risks and tied them to compliance activities has risen by 80%.

GitHub Actions and the GitHub GraphQL API are powerful tools for automating and optimizing workflows. GitHub Actions, released in 2018 brings CI/CD directly into the GitHub ecosystem and automates general project management using YAML files. Whereas, a 2-year earlier-released GraphQL API provides a more efficient way to fetch and manipulate data.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are increasingly relying on Kubernetes and cloud environments to drive agility, scalability, and innovation. However, this shift has introduced complex challenges in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, especially when managing resources across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.