Delete a security group in Entra ID and it is gone. Permanently. No recycle bin, no thirty day window, no support ticket that brings it back. Microsoft 365 groups are recoverable for thirty days. Security groups and distribution groups are…
For the best part of two decades, picking a hypervisor was the easy bit. VMware was the default, and every backup and replication vendor built their integration around it first. VADP, journal-based CDP, tag-driven job scoping… The whole ecosystem grew…
A few weeks back, buried in the filings of a £100 million High Court case between Tesco and Broadcom, there was a sentence that deserves more attention than it got. Tesco confirmed it is migrating roughly 40,000 servers off VMware….
I’m a technologist by trade, but the business side of the MSP space has always interested me. I’ve been listening to Dave Sobel’s Business of Tech podcast for a while now, and yesterday’s episode, a repost from a sister publication,…
I had a client reach out last week asking for an RTO on their M365 backups. For years the concern around M365 data protection was all about coverage, storage efficiency and immutability. but this was the first time I was…
Immutable storage has become one of the defining technologies in modern backup strategy. And for good reason: if backup data cannot be altered or deleted, ransomware attackers lose one of their most effective tactics. But there’s a growing problem in…
For years, SaaS backup strategies were built on a simple assumption: if your data is stored in the EU, you’re compliant. That assumption no longer holds. In 2026, EU regulators and enterprises are converging on a more demanding reality—data sovereignty…
Most organisations think ransomware is just another disaster scenario. It isn’t. Disaster recovery vs ransomware Disaster recovery (DR) is designed for availability failures: The assumption is: your data is intact but unavailable.So the response is speed: Ransomware is a security…
Veeam released their latest Data Trust and Resilience Report this week and there’s some very interesting stats that will make for some uncomfortable reading. You can get your copy here. There’s a lot in the report, with some very vaulable…
For years, organisations have trusted platforms like Veeam Software to deliver reliable backup and fast recovery. And from an operational standpoint, that trust is well placed. But modern ransomware isn’t targeting your ability to restore infrastructure—it’s targeting your ability to…