Clumio, A Commvault Company

Clumio, A Commvault Company

Audit logs are a vital tool in any security team’s toolbox. They help track and monitor user activity across applications, systems, and networks. Not only do they help identify suspicious activity, like a user accessing a privileged system they don’t have access to, but also are a key piece in forensically looking at the history and timelines of an event to determine everything that happened.

Humanity’s collective memory can be a little fuzzy. Case-in-point: The Mandela Effect, or the phenomenon of large groups of people misremembering the same fact or event in a similar way. The effect is named after Nelson Mandela, who many people believe died in prison in the 1980s despite the fact that he actually went on to become President of South Africa in the 1990s.

Cloud backup services can provide several valuable cost-efficiencies for backup and storage of enterprise data, but if you move forward with a solution before doing your due diligence, you could be met with a slew of unexpected costs. Many cloud backup vendors have confusing and complicated pricing models that make it difficult to predict the total cost of ownership (TCO) on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, and hidden costs can cause your cloud backup bills to fluctuate wildly. While it’s best to choose a backup solution with transparent pricing and an easy-to-understand cost model, it’s important to understand what those unpredictable costs generally are. Here are the three biggest contributors to cloud backup cost fluctuations.

The need for an API Gateway
: In a microservices-based architecture for an enterprise-level system like Clumio, it is impractical to have a public endpoint per microservice. One of the major problems is the tight coupling this introduces between the client and the server. In addition, each microservice needs to implement and maintain the common pieces like logging, tracing, security (authentication, authorization, rate-limiting).

Don’t you love the beginning of the year when you come up with a resolution that gives a surge of motivation to achieve? But as new priorities emerge, your determined sprint inevitably becomes a leisurely walk. So long as you periodically remind yourself why you made the resolution in the first place, even slow progress will eventually get you to your goal.

For most of my life, I’ve been a builder. As a young child, my imagination was consumed with a passion for cars. I’d stroll down the hobby aisle and see flashy scale models of American muscle cars with their custom flame paint, exotic European sports cars with amazing detail. I was mesmerized. I would mow yards […]

A data retention policy is a set of guidelines that outline how long specific types of data are to be retained and when they should be disposed of. It’s important for organizations to have a data retention policy not only to comply with regulatory requirements but also to reduce legal exposure, manage storage costs, and […]

Disaster recovery refers to the process of recovering and restoring mission-critical data and applications during a disaster event. This process provides a way to recover and restore important data, ensures that a business’s core operations can continue to function, and aims to mitigate or avoid downtime that would disrupt internal processes and affect end users until a full recovery is completed.

A backup is only as good as its recovery! If you can’t recover at any time or to any location of your choice, then the backup solution is not great. In my previous post for Protection Group, I jotted down several advantages including capabilities to classify data inside your S3 buckets and only protecting data that matters to you. In this post, we will focus on how to recover data from the same Protection Groups.

As highlighted in one of the recent posts for Clumio Protect for Amazon S3, customers face several challenges in order to successfully differentiate between critical and non-critical data and be able to only protect critical data. This data classification challenge is solved by Clumio using an innovative concept called Protection Groups. I’ll dive deeper into how Protection Groups […]