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Backup and restore duration as the operational limit on a dataset, and its implication for recovery time objectives.
Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen wants the 200 exabytes of backups it guards for about 12,000 customers put to work feeding AI. Taking up the offer means opening the copy a company keeps for recovery to AI tools that someone has to supervise.
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The September 2026 security updates left File History unable to create or update backups on Windows 10 21H2 and later and Windows 11 23H2 and later. The fix ships in an optional preview update; machines on mandatory updates wait until October 13.
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Microsoft says some machines cannot create or update File History backups after installing the September 2026 security update, and affected PCs report the backup drive as disconnected while it sits attached and working.
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Melapress surveyed 319 WordPress professionals about the incidents they had handled. Its numbers say the decisions about isolating, restoring and notifying customers are mostly being made in the middle of the outage.
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The 7.8-rated privilege escalation in Acronis' cPanel and WHM backup plugin needs a local account on the server to work. The hosting providers and MSPs that run those servers are the only party who can install the fix.
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Agent Resilience snapshots an agent's memory and configuration and maps the systems it can reach, so an administrator can restore a point from before the trouble started. At launch it covers only AWS Bedrock agents, and only for select customers.
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Rubrik's Threat Monitoring and Threat Hunting now match backup snapshots against ReversingLabs' ransomware feed, aimed at catching a dormant payload before an operator restores it and at dating the last clean snapshot.
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Scott Alldridge argues that the standard controls all exist on paper and go untested under pressure. His replacement audit is four operational questions. Three of them can only be answered by running the test.
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Whoz let one MongoDB collection reach 530 million documents and found the binding constraint was its maintenance window, not query latency. That changes which fix is correct.
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