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The industry’s most cutting-edge terms, explained.

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Backup as a Service (BaaS)

Backup as a service (BaaS) solutions offer cloud-based data backup and recovery capabilities without the presence of physical, on-premises hardware or appliances to host and run the backup infrastructure.

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Backup policy

A backup policy is a set of rules and procedures that describe the enterprise’s strategy when making backup copies of data for safekeeping.

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Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR)

Ideal Business Continuity Disaster Recovery strategies are designed to minimize downtown and data loss. ‘Business continuity’ delivers a proactive focus on conducting organizational procedures, while disaster recovery offers reactive controls to get systems, infrastructure, and data back online.

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Cloud Storage

Cloud storage describes an IT infrastructure deployment model where storage resources reside in the cloud instead of being housed on-premises.

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Cyber deception

Cyber deception is a proactive security and defense tactic which hinges on deceiving bad actors and malicious attacks. Industry-leading cyber deception solutions pick up where conventional security tools leave off – employing at two-step process to slow down and surface unknown and zero-day threats.

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Data deduplication

Data deduplication, also called “dedup”, eliminates duplicate or redundant information in a dataset. In short, dedup is a process that ensures only one copy of data exists in a particular dataset or block.

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Data Encryption

Data encryption is a type of security process that converts data from a readable format called plaintext into an encoded, unreadable form called ciphertext.

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Data Loss Prevention

Data loss prevention (DLP) is part of a company’s security policy to prevent the loss, leakage, misuse, or access of data by unauthorized parties.

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Data retention policy

An organization’s data retention policy is a set of rules that describe the types of data that will be retained by the entity and for how long.

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Database Backup

Database backup is the process of creating a copy (backing up) of an organization’s structured data utilized by popular databases such as SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server.

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Dynamics 365 Backup

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based business applications system that offers different components of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP).

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eDiscovery

Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) is the process of finding and collecting ESI – typically for lawsuits, investigation, or legal purposes.

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Endpoint Backup

Endpoint backup solutions offer data protection for employee user devices, including desktops and laptops for today’s remote workforce.

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File and Object Backup

File and object backup solutions offer data protection for two different unstructured data types: object storage and file systems.

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Hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud is IT architecture that combines at least one private cloud, also known as an on-premises data center, with one or more public cloud services.

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Kubernetes Backup

Kubernetes backup is the process of backing up the components running in a Kubernetes orchestration platform, that is an abstraction layer for containerized applications and services.

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Microsoft 365 Backup

With Microsoft 365, end users and organizations get a robust suite of productivity tools, which include Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.

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Ransomware Protection

Ransomware protection is the process of preventing the occurrence of a ransomware event, and/or mitigating the risk of a successful attack.

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Recovery point objective

A recovery point objective (RPO) is part of an enterprise disaster recovery strategy that defines an organization’s data loss tolerance.

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SaaS data protection

SaaS data protection offers organizations tools to manage and safeguard critical SaaS apps, endpoints, and hybrid cloud environments from data loss threats such as corruption, accidental deletion, and malicious attack.

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Salesforce Backup

Salesforce backup and recovery offers automated data protection for content, files, objects, metadata relationships, and more living in Salesforce production organizations and sandbox environments.

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VM Backup

Virtual machine backup (VM backup) is the process of backing up the VMs running in an enterprise environment.

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