Data Domain vs StoreOnce: Dedupe Appliance or DIY Target?
For UK infrastructure leaders reviewing backup target refreshes in 2026, the marketing pitch remains seductive: Dell Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce deduplication appliances cite aggressive data reducti…
Backup Data Residency UK 2026: Sovereignty & CLOUD Act
Securing backup data residency in the UK requires navigating a sharp legal divide that physical data centre geography cannot bridge alone. While the European Commission formally adopted renewed UK ade…
Active Directory Disaster Recovery: The Plan You're Missing
When NotPetya tore through Maersk's global network, nearly every domain controller was destroyed — except one, in a branch office in Ghana, which survived and became the crucial fallback for rebuildin…
Cyber Insurance Backup Requirements in 2026: The UK Guide
UK cyber insurance underwriters in 2026 no longer treat data protection as a basic operational hygiene checkbox. Carriers increasingly treat resilient recovery architecture as a key underwriting gate …
Veeam Proxmox Support: Backups Surviving a VMware Exit
Migrating away from VMware ESXi without confirming backup compatibility leaves organisations vulnerable to unrecoverable workloads and stranded compliance chains. As of mid-2026, veeam proxmox support…
UK Backup Retention Policy Guide: Legal Periods & Architecture
Designing an audit-ready backup retention policy in the UK requires balancing strict statutory baselines—such as HMRC's 6 years plus current rule and the Limitation Act 1980—against the ICO's mandate …
Veeam Hardened Repository: The 2026 Case for Leaving Windows
Ransomware frequently targets backup infrastructure via compromised production identities in many documented incidents, so separation from the main domain is widely recommended in current guidance. Ve…
Kubernetes Storage On Premise: Architecture and CSI Options
Stateful container workloads have decisively outgrown the lab. According to the CNCF’s 2025 Annual Cloud Native Survey (published 20 January 2026), 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production.…
Synology vs Enterprise NAS: When UK Firms Must Upgrade
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, in analysis published in 2020, reported that the QSnatch campaign had infected 3,900 QNAP devices in the UK out of 62,000 worldwide and framed it as an ongoing…
Cloud Storage Costs vs On Premise: 2026 Repatriation Guide
Headline cloud storage rates remain superficially enticing in 2026, but the true financial tipping point is rarely determined by raw capacity alone *(rates vary by region and tier; figures below refle…
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