Earlier this month, Google Cloud disclosed that it accidentally deleted the account of its customer UniSuper, a $125 billion Australian pension fund. According to a joint statement from Google Cloud and UniSuper, the deletion occurred due to an “inadvertent misconfiguration.” As a result, more than 600,000 pension fund users were unable to access their accounts for over a week. UniSuper had geographical redundancy built into its Google Cloud environment, according to the statement.

Over the next three blogs, I want to explain how we used machine learning to increase Cove Continuity boot-check accuracy to 99%. Cove Continuity offers the ability to restore source (protected) servers/workstations to virtual machines (VMs) in Hyper-V, ESXi, or Azure. After a VM is restored, Cove performs a boot-check test to prove that the system was properly restored.

The new partnership between Progress and Veeam represents a significant step forward in cybersecurity. It marks a considerable advancement in data protection by merging the Flowmon AI-powered threat detection capabilities with the robust backup solution of Veeam. This empowers organizations to more effectively defend their invaluable digital assets.

HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a law that regulates how healthcare organizations manage and protect personal medical data. From the perspective of IT professionals, HIPAA defines how you keep your managed clients’ identifiable information safe, secure, and, most importantly, private. HIPAA is comprised of five sections called titles.

Proper backups are universally acknowledged as essential, yet they grow increasingly tedious and prone to error as DevOps complexity escalates. While some managed database services offer automated backup solutions, the scope of your backup requirements is likely to expand as the business and products scale. There's a considerable chance you'll find yourself hosting your own databases or stateful services, a task that can seem daunting in its demand for precision and reliability.

Much has changed in the digital space, but one thing will remain important for organizations—safeguarding their entire digital environment. While data is the lifeblood of companies and businesses, protecting a digital environment goes beyond that. From confidential records to operating systems, applications to databases, the potential compromise of these components is a threat.