Backup Blog Articles

Why SaaS apps like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace need backup: risk
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2024

Why SaaS apps like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace need backup: risk

Global SaaS vendors like Salesforce and Microsoft don’t take any responsibility for your data or how you use their application, only for their own infrastructure and operation. The main reasons for losing data - human errors, malicious actions, ransomware or cybercrime - are not covered by your SaaS vendor. But a recent incident suggests even relying on a single vendor’s ‘guaranteed’ infrastructure is still a risk.

Super Cloud Total Disaster Prevented by Independent Backups
Monday, Jun 3, 2024

Super Cloud Total Disaster Prevented by Independent Backups

One of Australia’s largest pension funds with USD90 billion (AUD135 Billion) invested on behalf of 647,000 members suffered a Google Cloud outage that crippled it’s customer services for almost two weeks in May. Google’s official response recognised the importance of third party backup software in saving the day.

SEP sesam renews certification for SAP HANA
Monday, Jan 15, 2024

SEP sesam renews certification for SAP HANA

The well respected backup solution for SAP HANA from SEP AG known as SEP sesam has had it’s certification renewed by SAP. As both SAP HANA and SEP sesam are constantly being updated this provides customers with the assurance that SEP is up-to-date and meeting all SAP certification requirements.

SEP sesam tops techconsult's PUR-S 2023 Awards
Monday, Apr 3, 2023

SEP sesam tops techconsult's PUR-S 2023 Awards

SEP wins the ‘Champion’ position in the Professional User Ratings-Security Solutions (PUR-S) ‘Diamond’ - for Backup and Recovery 2023 by techconsult.

Ransomware protection with SEP sesam immutable Storage (SiS)
Friday, Aug 26, 2022

Ransomware protection with SEP sesam immutable Storage (SiS)

Special ransomware protection: SEP Immutable Storage (SiS), that is ‘unchangeable storage’, offers a file storage function that is resistant to ransomware attacks and is based on Si3 NG under Linux. Even with full admin access to the SEP sesam backup server, attackers cannot delete, modify or encrypt the data stored on SiS.

SEP sesam fights ransomware with the Jaglion V2 release
Thursday, Jul 14, 2022

SEP sesam fights ransomware with the Jaglion V2 release

SEP sesam 5.0.0 Jaglion V2 has been released with enhancements to improve security and interoperability, particularly in cloud deployments or when on-premise data is stored to the cloud. Headlining in the fight against ransomware is support for ‘Immutable storage’ and ‘Encrypted deduplicated data stores’.