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The editors of The Data Protection Review

Tape Is Not Dead: LTO and the Case for Offline Copies in a Ransomware Era

LTO-10 now ships at 30TB and 40TB native per cartridge. What that does to the capacity math for offline copies, and where tape still falls short.

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Backup-Strategies

Backup Retention Policy Design: Balancing Legal Hold, Compliance, and Storage Cost

The editors of The Data Protection Review · Oct 27, 2026
Cloud-Backups

Backing Up SaaS Beyond Microsoft 365 and Google: Salesforce, Slack, and Atlassian Data

The editors of The Data Protection Review · Oct 20, 2026
Disaster-Recoveries

Holiday Change-Freeze Backup Readiness: Skeleton-Crew Recovery Runbooks for Q4

The editors of The Data Protection Review · Oct 13, 2026
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Storage array with a locked enclosure, representing a backup repository under attack Ransomware-Resiliences

Why 96% of Ransomware Attacks Now Target the Backup Repository First

Backup repositories are a primary objective, not an afterthought. What the 96% figure actually measures, how often the attempt succeeds, and what it costs.

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