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The latest Immutable Backups coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Defense in Depth for Cloud Resilience: Why Immutable Recovery is Essential for Windows Security
Organizations across Mexico, the United States, and globally are increasingly recognizing that true cyber resilience is not a product you can buy off a shelf but an engineered outcome achieved...
Scality and Veeam bundle backup software with immutable storage in single appliance.
In a significant move to simplify enterprise data protection, Scality and Veeam have announced the ARTESCA Veeam Unified Backup Appliance, collapsing two historically separate stacks—backup...
Commvault & Pinecone Partnership: Enterprise Vector Data Backup Revolution for AI Resilience
The enterprise data protection landscape is undergoing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence transitions from experimental research to core business infrastructure. Commvault's groundbreaking...
Rubrik’s Agent Cloud with Copilot Studio Redefines M365 Data Resilience
Rubrik's strategic expansion into the Microsoft ecosystem represents a significant evolution in data protection, combining advanced AI capabilities with recovery-first security principles. The...
Akira Ransomware 2025: New BYOVD Attacks and Edge Exploits Threaten Windows Users
The Akira ransomware group has dramatically evolved its tactics throughout 2025, introducing sophisticated new attack vectors that specifically target Windows environments through Bring Your Own...
New LockBit 5.0 variant targets Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi in unified attacks.
The notorious LockBit ransomware has evolved into a more dangerous multi-platform threat with the emergence of LockBit 5.0, capable of targeting Windows systems, Linux servers, and VMware ESXi...
Veeam Ships First-Ever Software Appliance to Bypass Windows Licensing and Harden Backups
Veeam has shipped its first-ever software appliance—a pre-hardened, Linux-based backup platform that can be deployed on any commodity hardware, bypassing the need for Windows Server licensing and...
Veeam’s Software Appliance Delivers Instant Azure Recovery, Axes Windows Licensing for Backups
Veeam is betting that a software-only backup appliance running a hardened Linux Just Enough OS will finally untether enterprises from Windows licensing overhead and months-long configuration cycles....
Active Directory Disaster Recovery Is a Cybersecurity Emergency—Here’s the Identity-First Playbook
A single corrupted Active Directory forest can lock employees out of every app, revoke access to file shares, break DNS, and sever the sync between on-premises and cloud identities—all within...
Microsoft Account Lockout Nightmare: Why Cloud-Only Backup Is a Recipe for Disaster
Mike Kaganski, a LibreOffice developer, spent a week locked out of his Microsoft account after sending what seemed like an innocuous email about code bugs. The suspension cut off access to his files,...
Windows 11's Built-in Backup Won't Save Your PC: The Hybrid Strategy That Actually Works
The first time I tried to restore a Windows 11 system image using Microsoft’s legacy Backup and Restore tool, I learned a hard lesson: the image wouldn’t boot, and Microsoft’s own documentation...
Microsoft’s TPM 2.0 Mandate Is Non-Negotiable: Higher Education’s Multi-Million Ransomware Lesson
Microsoft has declared its TPM 2.0 hardware requirement for Windows 11 “non-negotiable,” closing the door on any hopes that the company might lower security standards to ease the transition from...