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…
Data Sovereignty After NIS2 and DORA: What Backup Teams Need to Know For years, backup strategy was primarily driven by cost, recovery speed, and storage efficiency. Today, that’s no longer enough. Across Europe, regulations like the EU’s NIS2 Directive and…
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…
There’s a growing trend in the enterprise backup market where vendors are introducing “backup acceleration appliances.” When you strip away the marketing, most of these are essentially very fast NVMe landing zones that sit in front of slower backup storage….
A recent discussion on the Veeam R&D forums highlighted something that is going to become increasingly common in enterprise infrastructure: AI features that require your infrastructure data to be sent somewhere else for processing. The thread in question discussed Veeam…
For years, organisations have invested in disaster recovery (DR) capabilities to protect against outages, hardware failures, and natural disasters. These scenarios are well understood: systems fail, recovery plans are executed, and services are restored as quickly as possible. But ransomware…