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Nearly a decade ago, prominent tech journalist Mat Honan from The Wired had his worst nightmare come to lifehis nearly entire digital presence, including content on his iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro were wiped clean. His over a year's worth of personal memories, which included the pictures of his young daughter, were also wiped clean. The disaster happened as hackers targeted and eventually breached Honan's Twitter, Google, and iCloud accounts all in order to gain access to his coveted Twitter account.

Honan like many of us relied on the cloud for the backup of his personal and professional data, most of which was lost in the incident. Yet, a decade later, many organizations still believe that by merely being on the cloud, your backups are automatically taken care of by the cloud provider.

Hackers, in recent years, have also been targeted backups that could make recovery from a security incident even harder if a proper backup plan is not put into place.

You can perhaps take a leaf out of some of the leading enterprises' playbooks on how best to deal with cloud backups as we go through the same in detail in this week's newsletter.

Let us know your thoughts.

RegardsVarun AggarwalEditor, ETCIOvarun.aggarwal@timesinternet.in

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RBL Banks CIO illustrates how to build a robust availability and backup strategyFor a bank, there's nothing more important than delivering an always-on customer experience. However, most current technologies are inadequate in ensuring this. Periodic backups that only provide a snapshot in time are not compatible with demands for Recovery Time Objective (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objective (RPOs).

Sankarson Banerjee, Chief Information Officer, RBL Bank believes that banks today have become a 24x7 business like e-commerce and the data & apps underlying the banks similarly needs to be always on. This has made modernising backup and storage strategy has been made a business priority. Read More...

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Is it enough to rely on the cloud for backups? - ETCIO