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When a production system crashes, failover redirects traffic to a standby environment. That part most teams understand. The trickier question is: How do you move operations back to the original system once it’s restored? That’s failback, and it’s where many disaster recovery plans fall apart. Understanding failover vs. failback directly affects how quickly you recover from outages and whether you introduce data inconsistencies during the return to normal.

As cyberattacks on industrial systems escalate and supply chains grow more complex, cyber resilience for operational technology (OT) isn’t optional — it’s a business imperative. But with budgets under pressure and resources stretched thin, many manufacturers are left pondering a difficult question: How can we strengthen OT defenses without incurring downtime or breaking the bank? Virtual conference OT resilience.

The first time I helped support a control server recovery at a packaging facility, someone asked "How long will this take?" We did not have a good answer. The backup existed. The process to restore it safely in a live production environment did not. We had carried IT assumptions into an OT problem, and it cost the plant an entire shift. IT/OT convergence created a gap that most backup vendors were not built to close. Production systems need continuous uptime.

I’ve spoken to enough business owners over the years to notice a pattern. Nobody thinks about backups on a normal day. But the moment something breaks – during a war,...

Every year on March 31st, World Backup Day rolls around with a simple but important message: Backup your data. It sounds almost too basic, right? I mean we all know in our minds that we should be doing that, and in a world of AI, zero-day exploits and nation-state threats, backing up data can feel like a cybersecurity 101 task.

World Backup Day is a helpful reminder that reliable backups are essential for maintaining the availability and confidentiality of data. With the amount of global data created expected to reach 230-240 zettabytes in 2026, protecting both business and personal data is critical. This year, World Backup Day is even more meaningful as it also marks Acronis’ 23rd birthday.

Amazon S3 is reliable cloud storage provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Files are stored as objects in Amazon S3 buckets. This storage is widely used to store data backups due to the high reliability of Amazon S3. Unlike Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), where redundant data is stored in one availability zone, in Amazon S3, redundant data is distributed across multiple availability zones.

Service providers are entering a major infrastructure transition period. The global IaaS market is about $170 billion and growing at roughly 22% year over year. At the same time, VMware disruption is pushing 50%–75% of customers to evaluate alternatives, more than $30 billion of infrastructure spend is already flowing outside the major hyperscalers and sovereign Cloud demand is rising fast.

In the previous posts, we took a look at setting up VMkernel networks, including storage and vMotion. Now, we discuss configuring ESXi networks for the VMs themselves. VM networks provide connectivity of the VMs to the production network. Let’s walk through how these are configured. NAKIVO for VMware vSphere Backup Complete data protection for VMware vSphere VMs and instant recovery options. Secure backup targets onsite, offsite and in the cloud. Anti-ransomware features. DISCOVER SOLUTION.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how organizations operate, but it’s also reshaping one of the most complex areas of IT: compliance. What was once a structured, checklist-driven process is now one that is continuous and fast-moving and that introduces new risks, dependencies and expectations. As AI adoption accelerates, so does the pressure on both managed service providers(MSPs) and IT professionals to interpret and comply with evolving regulations.