Data Protection & Resilience
One of our seven practice areas — every brief we’ve published in this coverage area, newest first.
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Backup Retention Policy: How to Set It, With a Template
A vendor-neutral guide to setting a backup retention policy: how it differs from records retention and legal holds, GFS and time-based schemes, how immutability locks and regulation shape retention, and a copyable policy outline.
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Veeam Pricing 2026: VUL, Editions and Real Costs
As of October 2026, Veeam’s own online store lists Veeam Data Platform Foundation at $1,550 a year for a pack of 10 workload licenses, which works out to $155 per protected VM or server per year. Advanced is $1,890 and Premium is $2,275 per 10-pack per year, the small-business Essentials bundle is $95 per workload…
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Kubernetes Backup in 2026: Kasten, Portworx, or Velero?
A decision guide to Kubernetes backup in 2026: Veeam Kasten, Portworx PX-Backup, or Velero — plus the KubeVirt VM wrinkle and the CSI snapshot prerequisite that derails most first deployments.
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How Often Should You Test DR? Cadence, DORA, and Reality
A starting disaster recovery testing cadence by workload tier, what DORA’s Articles 24 to 26 actually require, and the non-disruptive tooling from Veeam, Zerto, Commvault and DRaaS providers that removes the excuse for annual-only tests.
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Commvault vs Veeam: Which Fits Complex Enterprise Estates?
Commvault and Veeam both score 4.6 with peers, but their failure modes are opposites. A decision framework by estate profile, plus what v13 and Cleanroom Recovery change in 2026.
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Cyber Recovery Vaults Compared: FortKnox, Rubrik Vault, Cleanroom
A neutral head-to-head of the cyber recovery vault category: Cohesity FortKnox, Rubrik Cloud Vault, Commvault Cleanroom Recovery, and Veeam Vault compared on isolation model, recovery rehearsal, and the egress economics of a real 100 TB restore.
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RTO and RPO Targets by Recovery Tier: What’s Realistic?
Four recovery tiers mapped to the RTO and RPO ranges AWS publishes for its disaster recovery strategies, which technology delivers each tier, and why an RTO that has never been tested is a hypothesis.
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Microsoft 365 Backup: What Microsoft Covers, and What It Won’t
Microsoft now sells its own M365 backup — but native copies share the tenant’s fate. How Veeam, Druva, Keepit, and AvePoint differ, and how to decide by threat model.
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The 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Rule: How to Actually Implement It
What the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule actually requires in 2026: an immutable copy attackers cannot delete, a real distinction from air gaps, and zero-error recovery verification, with Veeam, Object First, Wasabi and Rubrik compared.
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Rubrik vs Cohesity in 2026: Two Cyber-Resilience Playbooks
Cohesity is now a portfolio, not a product — and Rubrik is running a different race entirely. Where each platform wins, where each frustrates, and what NetBackup customers should do at renewal.