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5 Early Insights on NAS Appliances Demonstrate Their Improved Positioning as Backup Targets

August 13, 2026

Organizations have long used network attached storage (NAS) appliances as backup targets because they provide familiar, flexible, and accessible storage. However, ransomware and rapid backup growth now force organizations to demand more from the NAS systems protecting their backup data. These requirements increasingly include immutability, cyber resilience, high-speed recovery, greater capacity, and tighter backup software integration. To help organizations identify these systems, DCIG has begun researching cyber resilient NAS appliances that providers specifically position for backup

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9 Innovative Trends Shaping the PBBA Market: From Backup Targets to Cyber Resilience Platforms

June 4, 2026

Ransomware continues to reshape how enterprises evaluate purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs). Backup performance, data reduction, and scalability remain important, no doubt. However, organizations increasingly prioritize PBBAs that strengthen cyber resilience and accelerate recovery from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. DCIG’s recent research into all-flash cyber resilient PBBAs reveals several notable market trends beyond traditional backup capabilities. These findings highlight how providers integrate AI-driven analytics, identity security, cloud connectivity, and recovery-focused features. These 9 key trends that now shape the PBBA market came out of the research and TOP 5 Cyber Resilient PBBA reports being released shortly.

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Microsoft 365 Backup Powered by AI Has Arrived

October 23, 2025

Selecting a backup solution for a cloud-based SaaS application such as Microsoft 365 requires enterprises to take a different approach to backups. Cloud-based SaaS backup applications offer the best option for protecting Microsoft 365. However, multiple Microsoft 365 solutions exist that enterprises must sort through to find the best one for them.

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HYCU State of SaaS Resilience Report Offers Reality Check on the Rush into Adopting SaaS Applications

October 2, 2025

To say that organizations across all industries have embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications understates the depth of their embrace of them. No longer is it just one or two or even ten or twenty SaaS applications that organizations use. However, organizations may fail to grasp the risks that using SaaS applications present. HYCU’s recent release of its 2025 State of SaaS Resilience Report helps quantify the risks that SaaS applications can introduce. In so doing, it offers a sobering reality check on the current rush into adopting SaaS applications.

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HYCU R-Shield Builds More Cyber Resilience into R-Cloud to Protect an Organization’s Entire Data Estate

April 24, 2025

Organizations may not yet fully grasp how much their daily operations depend upon software-as-a-service (SaaS) and hybrid clouds. Already about 80 percent of organizations use third-party SaaS applications with 80 percent also utilizing hybrid clouds.

Yet as SaaS applications and hybrid cloud environments have become commonplace, providing holistic, resilient data protection for them remains elusive. Organizations must be far more purposeful, and thoughtful, in selecting a solution that protects data stored across these environments. HYCU’s introduction of Resiliency Shield (R-Shield™) gives organizations new flexibility to deliver data resilience across this mixed IT environment.

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