Disaster Recovery
The latest Disaster Recovery coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Identity Safety Net: Microsoft Entra’s Built-In Backup Tool Reaches GA with 7-Day Restore Window
Microsoft has officially released its Entra Backup and Recovery tool to general availability, giving identity administrators a native, cloud-based way to protect user accounts, groups, and other...
S&P Global’s Capital IQ Slashes Disaster Recovery to 15 Minutes Using AWS, NetApp, and Windows Clustering
S&P Global Market Intelligence has engineered a cross-region disaster recovery setup for its Capital IQ platform that can bring up a read-only instance in a secondary AWS region in as little as...
USB Malware Can Cross Your Air Gap: Here’s How to Test Your OT System’s Resilience Before It’s Too Late
Operators of industrial control systems got a jolt this week after independent tests confirmed that a new breed of USB-borne malware can silently bridge the so-called air gaps that are supposed to...
Why the Next Big Cloud Outage Is Just Around the Corner—and How to Survive It
The past year has hammered home an uncomfortable truth: cloud outages are a matter of when, not if. From Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure to AWS, even the most robust hyperscalers have stumbled,...
Live Disaster Recovery Test: Acronis Achieves 35-Second Failover, Comet and MSP360 Lag Behind
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud restored a Windows Server 2022 virtual machine in 35 seconds during a simulated ransomware attack, dramatically outpacing Comet Backup and MSP360 Managed Backup in...
When Data Centers Become Battlefields: How War Is Reshaping Cloud and AI Infrastructure
A Russian cruise missile slammed into a telecom building in northern Ukraine in March 2022, knocking out internet service for a large swath of the country. The attack wasn't an accident. It was a...
Server Backup Showdown 2026: Datto SIRIS, Unitrends, and Veeam Lead the Pack
When a ransomware attack encrypts your production servers at 3 a.m., the difference between a minor inconvenience and a career-ending disaster often boils down to one question: did you pick the right...
Canberra Uni Cuts Data Centre Footprint by 70% in Nutanix Hyperconverged Switch
At the recent Nutanix .NEXT conference in Chicago, the University of Canberra detailed how its multi-year migration from legacy three-tier architecture to Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)...
Datto SIRIS Tops 2026 Server Backup Rankings for Ransomware Recovery
{ "title": "Best Server Backup Software 2026: Ransomware Recovery and Verified Restores", "content": "Datto SIRIS tops Kaseya’s 2026 server backup software ranking for the third consecutive...
Backup Contracts May Silently Exclude Legacy Windows Server
Droplet, a provider of cloud-based business continuity solutions, has issued a stark warning to organizations still running Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2: their backup...
Microsoft's Azure IaaS Resilience Strategy: Why Mission-Critical Workloads Demand Built-In Continuity
Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it approaches system resilience. The company's latest technical documentation and architectural...
2025 IT Disasters: CIO Resilience Playbook for Cloud Outages & Windows Security
The calendar year 2025 closed with a blunt reminder for IT leaders: it was as much about spectacular innovation as it was about spectacular failures. From multi-hour hyperscaler outages that left...