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An Ultimate Guide to Rapid Ransomware Recovery and Cyber Resiliency
Learn how to rapidly recover from ransomware attacks and build cyber resiliency for your organization.
Data Encryption in the Cloud
Learn the basics of encryption, the prerequisites of data confidentiality, key management, and data encryption in the top tier public clouds.
What is GraphQL?
The Difference Between Backup and Replication
Data replication and backup are different, but complementary, core components of effective disaster recovery.
What is Continuous Data Protection?
In the event of software failure or data corruption, continuous data protection can be your lifeline. Learn the benefits and how it works.
The Importance of Data Backup and Recovery
With data backup and recovery, your business can survive data loss from unexpected disasters. Learn the basics here.
What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
Cloud-based solutions simplify backup and replication processes for accelerated IT recovery times and greater business continuity.
The Difference Between RTO & RPO
Being smart about RTO and RPO in your business continuity/disaster recovery plan helps you swiftly regain critical data and minimize business losses.
How to Back Up Virtual Machines
VM backup and recovery requires an open, flexible, easy-to-use solution that maximizes automation. Learn how Rubrik does it.
What Is Cloud Data Management?
Cloud data management enables data protection and governance across multiple clouds and on-premises infrastructure, from one software platform.
How to Backup Oracle Databases
Recovery Management (RMAN) limitations pose potential Oracle database backup and recovery challenges. Learn how Rubrik optimizes RMAN implementation.
What is GraphQL?
An open-source data query language for APIs, GraphQL helps free up product developers to focus on what they do best. Find out how.
What is a Snapshot Backup?
There can be confusion around the difference between snapshot backups and full backups. Here’s what you need to know.
Data Backup Automation and Why It Matters
Data backup automation helps keep the process reliable and easy to manage, which is especially relevant to backup testing and validation.
What’s the Difference Between Failover and Failback?
How do failover and failback differ? Think of them as complementary elements of a robust disaster recovery framework.
What is a Data Replication?
Minimize downtime and keep your company moving forward by recovering files and databases instantly.
How to Perform Database Backups
Practical insights and best practices for database backup, a critical task that can be challenging without the right processes and toolset.
How to Maintain HIPAA Compliance
Maintaining HIPAA compliance protects personally identifiable health information (pii) and your company. Learn more.
How to Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is critical for security and regulatory compliance, with effects on backup processes as well.
Test Your DR Plan without Impacting Production
With data backup and recovery, your business can survive data loss from unexpected disasters. Learn the basics here.
What is Immutable Data Backup?
Ransomware attacks present a real risk to your data. Be ready for them. Deploy immutable backups to protect your digital integrity.
How to Protect Apps Built on NoSQL Databases
NoSQL databases offer scalability and availability, but these qualities make NoSQL hard to back up. New backup technologies are solving the problem.
How to Protect Microsoft 365 Data
Follow these tips to help protect your data at work. A Microsoft 365 backup and recovery solution protects your data from the unforeseen.
Challenges of Traditional NAS Backup
Protecting data in NAS environments is more challenging than ever. Here’s why—and what you can do about it.
What is Data Classification?
You can’t protect what you don’t understand. Make data protection more effective and targeted with data classification.
What is Cloud Archival?
Should you store data archives on-premises or in the cloud? For many, the answer lies somewhere in between.
What Is Configuration Management?
Configuration management tools monitor and update all the components in your system to ensure data is secure and systems work properly.
What is Cloud-native Backup and Recovery?
Be ready when disaster strikes your cloud resources and applications. Choosing the right cloud-native backup and recovery strategy can make all the difference.
What is Subscription-based Backup?
Subscription-based backup gives you evergreen technology at a predictable monthly cost.
How to Back Up MongoDB Databases
NoSQL databases need a powerful backup and recovery solution designed for application developers. Learn what it takes here.
How to Back Up Cassandra Databases
Get a database backup and recovery solution built to meet the requirements of unstructured data and modern, cloud-native applications.
How to Backup Microsoft SQL Databases
How to backup SQL database? Understand the types of Microsoft SQL Server backups and what mistakes to avoid in managing them.
How to Accelerate Recovery from Downtime
Is downtime costing your organization too much? Here are four ways to avoid the negative effects and speed up downtime recovery.
How to Backup to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Protecting and managing data on AWS doesn’t have to be a challenge. Find out how you can eliminate complexity.
How to Backup to Microsoft Azure
Are you sufficiently protecting and managing your data on Azure? Find out how you can make it easier than ever.
How to Backup to Google Cloud Platform
Ensure powerful data protection and management capabilities for your workloads on Google Cloud Platform.
What is disk2vhd?
How to Achieve GDPR Compliance
Evaluate your company’s level of GDPR compliance by conducting a system and processes audit.
Zero Trust Data Security
As ransomware threatens data, Zero Trust architecture make it harder for attackers to access, encrypt or steal critical digital assets.
What Is Ransomware?
Ransomware is malware that encrypts a user or organization’s critical data so that they cannot access files, databases, or applications.
Data Backup and Recovery
Having the appropriate data backup and recovery software in place, however, can mean less trouble in the event of an operational failure, ransomware attack, or data corruption.
Rubrik vs Cohesity
Rubrik offers the leading secure primary backup solution in the industry with high quality, value, and customer satisfaction. Here’s a competitive breakdown of how Cohesity falls short against Rubrik’s native capabilities.
Rubrik vs Veeam
Rubrik offers the leading secure primary backup solution in the industry with high quality, value, and customer satisfaction. Here’s a competitive breakdown of how Veeam falls short against Rubrik’s native capabilities.
What is an Air Gap and Why is It Important?
To understand why air gaps are still important, it’s worth taking a moment to define the concept and explore what’s working well with them and what isn’t.
Rubrik - Kubernetes disaster recovery
In this guide we will teach you everything you need to know about K8 disaster recovery so your team has a plan in place before disaster strikes.
What is Data Exfiltration? 2023 Prevention Guide
Data exfiltration is an unauthorized transfer of information—typically sensitive data—from one system to another. It’s one of the most common cybercrimes and is bad news for your company and your clients.
Recovery Point Objective
Building a plan for data protection and recovery starts with knowing exactly how much data your business can withstand losing without sustaining significant damage.
Recovery Time Objective
From natural disasters to ransomware, every organization faces the potential for unexpected downtime of their web-based systems. Preparation is key to ensuring your business can withstand a significant disruption, and determining your Recovery Time Objectives is where it all starts.
Enterprise Backup Solutions
The cost of data loss is high—what exactly is an enterprise backup solution and how is it critical to how your business handles and secures its data?
Business Continuity and Cybersecurity
Now more than ever, business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans rely heavily on adaptive cybersecurity protocols. Learn more here.
How to Recover from Ransomware
Protect against ransomware attacks with a robust ransomware recovery plan to minimize disruption and maintain business continuity.
Rubrik vs Commvault
When it comes to Zero Trust Data Security, there's a huge difference between built-in versus bolted-on. See how Rubrik and Commvault compare.
What is Data Management as a Service (DMaaS)?
Find out how Data Management as a System (DMaas) can assist your enterprise store, manage, and secure your most critical data.
Understanding the 3 2 1 Backup Rule
Get an understanding of the 3 2 1 data backup rule and how you can use it to protect your company from data loss
How Should Your Company Handle a Ransomware Attack?
Find out how what ransomware is and how your company can take steps to handle to threat of a ransomware attack tomorrow
What is a distributed file system (DFS)?
Find out if a distributed file system is right for your business
Data Compliance for Your Business
What is data compliance and how can you make sure your company avoids data compliance risk
Rubrik vs Veritas
See how Rubrik and Veritas compare, and why organizations choose the leading Zero Trust Data Security solution.
Everything You Need to Know About Vishing
Find out what you need to know about vishing and how to protect yourself and your organization.
Ransomware vs Phishing
What’s the difference between ransomware and phishing and how are they related? Find out the nuances and how to protect your organization.
Malware Types: Ransomware and Spyware
Discover the differences between malware, ransomware, and spyware, how they infiltrate systems, and the threats they pose to organizations and their data.
Ransomware and Double Extortion: Similarities and Connections
Explore the similarities and differences between ransomware and double extortion, their implications, and learn how to protect your data from these evolving cyber threats.
What Are Cyber Resilience and Cyber Recovery?
Understanding how these two aspects of a successful cybersecurity strategy work together to keep your organization’s data secure.
What is object storage
Explore object storage’s unique properties, benefits and the most common use cases, including cloud data archival and business continuity and disaster recovery.
The Rubrik Difference
Cybercriminals have gotten smarter. Your cyber recovery solution should, too. See why Rubrik is your best bet against today's cyber threats.
Cloud Disaster Recovery
You know that cloud-based applications and infrastructure play an essential role in the modern enterprise. But how does cloud change your approach to disaster recovery?
How to Use Cloud Backup for Seamless Data Security
Simplify data management and enhance security with Rubrik's cloud backup solutions. Discover how we can safeguard your critical information.
Comprehensive Cloud Data Security by Rubrik
Simplify your cloud data security strategy with Rubrik. Discover how we help organizations safeguard their data in the cloud environment.
C-Suite guide to Enterprise Data Protection
Protecting critical enterprise data–like customer records, company financials, and product development details– should be a top priority for everyone in the C-suite. Do you have enterprise-grade security that can keep your data safe?
What is Data Security
High-profile data breaches have made data security a matter of concern for both IT and the business. But how do you actually protect your valuable business information?
What is Business Continuity and Business Continuity Planning?
Explore the essentials of Business Continuity and its planning. Dive deep into strategies that safeguard your business against unforeseen disruptions.
What is Endpoint Protection?
Protecting laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other network-connected devices is essential to a complete cybersecurity strategy.
How to Backup Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure VM backup guide featuring best practices and suggestions on how to leverage third-party backup solutions for the best outcomes.
How to Backup AWS
The shared security model means you are responsible for backing up and securing your AWS workloads. How do you make sure you have it all covered?
Five Reasons Why You Need SaaS Data Backup
Secure and centralize SaaS data protection with backup and recovery solutions. Discover how to protect your essential SaaS data.
Data Breach Response: How to Protect Your Business
Planning, testing, and fast data recovery are essential for effective data breach response
Database Security: Concepts and Best Practices
Why proactive security measures at the point of data are critical in avoiding database attacks AND data breaches
The Complete Guide to Data Detection and Response (DDR)
This guide covers what DDR is, how it works, and why it’s a critical component of data security strategies. It also provides a list of what to look for in a DDR solution and answers frequently asked questions about how DDR compares to other detection and response solutions.
The Complete Guide to Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
In this guide we detail everything you need to know to fully understand DSPM, including the many reasons it is so critical to an organization's overall security strategy, comparisons to existing approaches, the main benefits of adding DSPM to your security stack, how it works, and guidance on picking a solution.