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July 20, 2026

Maintaining archives – the best practices

It’s one thing to have established an archive of your business data, ticking that particular box. The next step comes with maintaining this archive – keeping everything running smoothly, efficiently and with an eye to the long-term stability of your business. Let’s cover the best practices of maintaining archives: Once your archive or...

July 13, 2026

What should my email archive achieve?

Over 300 billion emails are sent every day; with that sheer volume, email archiving is not just about trying to capture everything that passed through your servers. Any...

July 5, 2026

What is a legacy data system?

TECH-ARROW has consistently warned against legacy systems being kept as part of your data structure and management – but what is a legacy data system, really? There’re a...

June 29, 2026

Security in the SaaS environment

The recently published Infinite Campus Data Breach provides us a good segue into the topic of data security in the SaaS environment – how it differs from security in general,...

June 22, 2026

“What data do I keep?”

The data explosion continues to rebound across the world, with unintended consequences for all involved. The pressures of the last decade – trying to minimize data load on...

June 15, 2026

Before an AI transformation – a data one

The advent of AI tools has been transforming businesses across different fields and applications. But there’s one commonality between all of these diverse fields: before an AI...

June 8, 2026

Phishing campaign targeting Signal

The newest information making it across the cybersecurity world is that a wave of attacks have hit, part of what seems to be a coordinated phishing campaign targeting Signal....

June 1, 2026

How searchable is your archive?

Archived data has needed to be searchable for a while now; on the simplest side of things, the data in an archive isn’t useful if you cannot identify and retrieve needed...

May 26, 2026

Data in the AI World

With AI adoption spiking, enterprises need to begin considering data in the AI world. This means not only what data is being generated, but also questions of management – how it...

May 19, 2026

Planning your migration

With the news that Quest’s Quest Archive Manager will near EOL in 2027, it’s time to reintroduce the topic of data migration. At the core, it’s the question of saving your...

May 11, 2026

Quest Archive Manager announces EOL

Quest Archive Manager (QAM), previously Metalogix Archive Manager (MAM), has quietly announced they’ve hit end-of-sale and will reach end-of-life next year. This is the end of...

May 4, 2026

PocketOS’ data loss – AI-proofing backups

A post on X by Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS, went viral recently outlining how an AI Agent jumping guardrails managed to wipe out a production database and associated backups....

April 27, 2026

End of Life, not End of Use

The rapidly approaching End of Life for Microsoft Exchange Web Services brings the topic back into the light. For many companies, EOL on critical software or dependencies can...

April 20, 2026

Wasabi buys out Seagate’s Lyve Cloud

One of our technology partners, Wasabi Technologies, has recently taken another step towards expanding its footprint in the enterprise data storage world by buying out and...

April 13, 2026

Minimum Viable Resilience in Practice

Minimum Viable Resilience is a concept being more thoroughly explored now, derived from the more well-known Minimum Viable Business (MVB), itself a term borrowed from Software’s...

April 6, 2026

Backups – Beyond Security

With Backup Day 2026 having come and gone, it seems like a good time to go back and look over the relevant topics. Why have a backup of your systems, anyways? Backups are viewed...

March 30, 2026

Zero Trust and Identity

We’ve discussed Zero Trust before; for security, it is rapidly becoming the bedrock that all else is based on. The core concept behind Zero Trust is identity – how we can...

March 23, 2026

Archiving’s newest challenge – storage shortages

While the importance of archiving and maintaining quality records has risen, a new issue raises its head. The AI revolution is driving rapid construction of data centers and AI...

March 16, 2026

Siloing data and unifying systems

When we look at data retention and storage – possibly short-term copies for backup purposes, but generally long-term storage for business use or archiving – inevitably you end...

March 9, 2026

Data Migration Made Easy

As data migrations become more common for businesses and as aging systems make such migrations necessary, it becomes important to look harder at the processes involved, when a...