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It’s World Backup Day – Have You Backed up Your Data Yet?

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Have you ever been the scapegoat of an April fool joke? Must be, right? Or maybe you are so smart that you evaded being the target?

from www.worldbackupday.com

Unfortunately, this is the case with a lot of people playing with data every day and to address this exact issue, a  couple of reddit users took a wonderful independent initiative by making 31st March the World Back Up Day – a day to increase the awareness among people like you and me about the importance of regular backups, with an interesting tagline “Don’t be an April Fool.”

Of course, we shouldn’t think about backing up our data only once in a year but it works as a reminder that all of us should focus and make or review our back up strategy.

Let’s look at some stats to get a feel of how important backups can be. Read more →

Office 365 – do we need to backup our own data?

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Office 365 Backup Retention

Office 365 – do we need to backup our own data?

The short answer is… yes. Of-course our office 365 backup retention policy is required.

Let’s start from deletions.
What happens when you delete an email? You have 14 or 30 days to recover it from the dumpster and afterwards it’s gone forever.
If you have Office 365 plans E3 or E4, then you can set the dumpster to keep deleted emails forever. However, if the size of the dumpster is limited then the oldest emails will start to be permanently deleted…
If you have plans E3 or E4 though, you can configure the “litigation hold” per specific accounts and retain all deleted emails.
With SharePoint Online, deleted items are kept in the recycle bin for 30 days. But in case of malicious deletion Read more →

CloudAlly’s Google Apps Enterprise Backup

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Over 4 million businesses are now using Google Apps and companies of all sizes continue to migrate to Google as an alternative to on-premise solutions. Often times this includes multiple domains to manage a variety of unique brands, geographic locations or business units across the enterprise.

As part of this migration, it’s important to implement a comprehensive backup solution to ensure that user data across all domains can be quickly recovered in the event of data loss. Google has some of the finest disaster recovery procedures in the world, but can do very little to recover user data that has been accidentally (or maliciously) deleted, altered or otherwise corrupted.

And it’s not only a backup solution that needs to be considered, but the ability to manage employee transfers across business units and archive user data when an employee leaves the company. CloudAlly’s enterprise level Google Apps backup service addresses these requirements and more. Read more →

Enterprise Level Backup for Google Apps & Salesforce

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CloudAlly’s Enterprise Level Backup for Google Apps and Salesforce

If you are one of over 4 million businesses using Google Apps for Business, chances are you might be using multiple internet domains to manage unique brands, geographic locations or business units across your organization.

And like many Google Apps businesses with multiple domains, you might also be running multiple Salesforce.com organizations to manage a geographically dispersed sales team. This can create a very manually intensive and time consuming process for System Admins responsible for backing up these online applications as part of your Business Continuity Plan.

CloudAlly provides a powerful centralized online backup solution for both Google Apps and Salesforce to unlimited Amazon S3 secure storage, enabling your System Administrator to activate system-wide automated daily backups across all Google Apps domains and Salesforce organizations with a few simple clicks.

Daily Backup Summaries are sent to your Systems Admin so there’s no need to login each day to verify backup status resulting in additional time savings.

Unlimited Amazon storage and unlimited retention of your daily archives eliminates the consumption of on-premise storage while allowing you to recover critical business data from any point in time whenever needed.

Visit CloudAlly at /latest to sign-up for a free 15-day trial (no credit card required) and start backing up your Google Apps and Salesforce enterprise data today.

Disaster Recovery by Google; Whose disaster is it anyway?

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Last year Google launched a free service called synchronous replication for Google Apps in order to prevent data loss and provide immediate failover in the event that one of their data centers goes down.  This was an important announcement since it means Google now replicates every change made to Google Apps across multiple data-centers in real time.

In fact, for the City of LA, it was so important that it was one of the reasons they ultimately decided to go Google according to a Google Enterprise Blog entitled“Disaster Recovery by Google.”

And that brings me to my point.  “Disaster Recovery by Google” is a misnomer and should be called “Disaster Recovery for Google.”  There’s no question that leading online providers such as Google, Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services have world-class disaster recovery capabilities, but the key point, and one that has caused a lot of confusion, is that these procedures are for their disasters, not yours…

Google’s synchronous replication allows Google to recover from a disaster, but does not allow you, the user, to recover from a “personal disaster” such as accidental deletion of data, malicious data corruption, or any other problems that are unfortunately a fact of life. Read more →