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When disaster strikes—whether it’s a natural catastrophe, a cyberattack, or a simple power outage—your job is to keep things up and running. But where do you even start? Do you need a backup solution, a disaster recovery (DR) solution, or a bit of both? In a recent article, Gartner analyst Michael Hoeck predicted that by 2028, 75% of enterprises will prioritize backing up their SaaS applications, a significant increase from just 15% in 2024.

Walk into any business today and you’ll find Microsoft 365 quietly running everything that matters. It’s the unseen infrastructure behind emails, meetings, documents, and decisions. From a five-person consultancy to...

The IT industry uses many overlapping terms that are often misunderstood. Cybersecurity, cyber protection, cyber resilience, cyber defense, cyber intelligence, cyber readiness — the list keeps growing, and so does the confusion. When these concepts are sometimes used interchangeably, organizations risk making the wrong decisions about how they protect systems, data and business operations. While these concepts are related, they are not the same.

When a cyberattack or natural disaster strikes, the challenge isn’t just restoring data quickly — it’s resuming business operations just as fast. That’s where the distinction between disaster recovery (DR) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) becomes critical for businesses. White paper A practical blueprint for cyber resilience to evolve from prevention to continuity.

Broadcom’s VMware acquisition brought massive pricing changes that caught most IT departments off guard. The company eliminated perpetual licenses, forcing everyone into subscription models while implementing steep VMware license cost increases and new minimum core requirements. These aren’t minor adjustments: Broadcom restructured the entire VMware license pricing model.

As an Acronis user, you understand the importance of safeguarding your digital life. Whether you're a photographer with an ever-growing library of high-resolution images, a videographer churning out terabytes of footage, a content creator managing countless projects or a power user with multiple virtual machines and a home lab, the need for ample, secure cloud storage is constant. You want one reliable place for all your data, without the hassle of juggling multiple tools and accounts.

Would you leave your wallet on the street and hope nobody will touch it? No, you would not. Then why would you risk living in 2026 without having a reliable and efficient computer antivirus protection? Do you know that cyberattacks have quadrupled since COVID-19 hit the world? Ransomware, malware, and phishing attacks are multiplying daily; they have become like a tsunami that destroys everything in its path.

In our increasingly digital world, your laptop is more than just a device — it’s a vault of memories, a workspace and a lifeline to your personal and professional life. Imagine losing years of photos, critical work documents, important research, critical data, or important documents in an instant. This nightmare scenario is precisely why laptop backup software isn’t just a luxury, it’s an absolute necessity.

When it comes to disaster recovery and backup plans, understanding the RPO and RTO is crucial as these two critical metrics help signal the level of your overall data security. In short, Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) play a critical role in determining how quickly and effectively an organization can bounce back from an IT disaster, safeguarding business continuity, and minimizing potential data and financial losses.

The global economy is shifting toward total automation. Almost every industry is moving from manual work to automatic or semi-automatic workflows that act proactively or respond on their own, deliver results faster and operate with minimal human intervention. MSPs should be at the center of this transformation. This is the beginning of the autonomous MSP era – service providers that deliver reliable, scalable operations with minimal manual work, very high productivity and consistent quality.