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Learn how one IT Director's attempt to save on Microsoft 365 costs backfired and ended up costing him thousands of dollars in storage fees. Watch Andrea Kopacek break down the hidden connection between licensing and storage. When you include archiving in your data lifecycle strategy, you can avoid unintended budget consequences like this one. Assess your risk of incurring storage overage charges: https://bit.ly/413H4p0 #Archiving #Microsoft365 #DataStorage

We talk a lot about data growth, but I don’t think we spend enough time talking about legacy data. I’m talking about the SharePoint sites nobody really owns anymore, former employee OneDrive folders, project files from three reorganizations ago, contracts, research, records, presentations, and emails that are still sitting somewhere in the business. Most of that data may be clutter, but the problem is that you usually don’t know which legacy files matter until the business needs them. It might be part of a legal request, an audit, a recovery effort, or simply the context behind a decision that was made years ago. Most legacy data is not strategic, but some of it is, and the business rarely gets to decide that on a convenient timeline. That makes legacy data a leadership issue, not just a storage issue. A lot of companies are left with two bad options: keep everything in expensive primary storage, or delete things and hope they made the right call. That is not really a strategy. The better move is smart archiving: use policy to identify inactive data, move it out of expensive primary storage, keep it protected, and preserve user access and context so people can still find and recover it later. The point is not to bury legacy data. It is to stop treating all data the same, regardless of age, value, cost, or risk. Legacy data does not automatically become unimportant data. It becomes a problem when no one knows what it is, why it was kept, or whether they can get it back.

Evaluating your options for Microsoft 365 backup and recovery? 🤔 Today’s backup conversation is about more than recovery alone. Organizations are also rethinking long-term storage growth, data archiving, and how many tools it takes to manage everything effectively. Here's a breakdown of how vendors in the space compare across backup, archiving, storage flexibility, and unified workflows. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48Zj7DQ #CrashPlan #Microsoft365 #BackupandRecovery

Storage space in Microsoft 365 is neither unlimited nor free - but managing it doesn’t have to mean deleting data or disrupting users. With the right policies in place you can reduce storage without changing how people work. Read the research: https://bit.ly/3PLaTIs #Microsoft365 #DataStorage #CrashPlan

Your Microsoft 365 storage footprint is growing faster than you think. 📈 Typical growth of Microsoft 365 averages 20% per year, and storage overage costs grow with it. CrashPlan keeps your Microsoft 365 footprint lean and predictable with built-in archiving and data control that contain costs without limiting access. 💸 Calculate your savings: https://bit.ly/4cbSxYP #DataArchiving #DataBackup #Microsoft365

Think Microsoft 365 has backup built in? Think again. Learn how to design a resilient, compliant recovery strategy that picks up where Microsoft backup protection ends. 📖 Read our Microsoft 365 Backup Guide for Enterprise to learn more: https://bit.ly/42D4aDX #Microsoft #DataBackup #Microsoft365

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This week, an AI agent reportedly deleted months of company data, including backups, in a matter of seconds. This story should get every security and IT leader’s attention; it is a stark reminder that AI risk is no longer theoretical, it’s operational. The issue isn’t simply that an AI agent made a mistake. The bigger issue is that it apparently had enough access to cause catastrophic damage almost instantly. This points to a governance problem, highlighting how a lack of basic principles such as least privilege, separation of environments, backup immutability, and human-in-the-loop controls can have catastrophic consequences very quickly. AI agents need to be thought of like a junior engineer with root access on day one.  Without proper controls, auditability, and failsafe maturity measures in place, organizations should assume that any autonomous action can, and eventually will go wrong in the blink of an eye.  The backup piece is especially concerning here. Backups are only useful if they are isolated, protected, and tested. If the same credentials or automation can destroy both production data and backups, you don’t have resilience, you have a single point of failure. AI can be a major productivity boost, but without the right controls, it can also turn small mistakes into big problems very quickly. Don’t just ask what AI agents can do. Ask what they should be allowed to do, who approves it, and how quickly you can recover when something goes wrong. #Cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Automation #CyberResilience #DataProtection https://lnkd.in/dybGiayi

CrashPlan CISO Todd Thorsen was featured in a new The Wall Street Journal piece - and his point is hard to ignore. When a breach hits, companies are forced to extend trust at their most vulnerable moment, often handing over access to critical systems and data. That kind of urgency can create serious risk if visibility and control aren’t in place. Preparation makes the difference. See why this matters and what it means for protecting your data. Read the full story: https://on.wsj.com/48ykhG8 #DataBackup #Ransomware #WSJ

Last week, CrashPlan presented at The Microsoft 365 Community Conference with Microsoft and our customer, Indiana University. Lora Fox, who is the Associate VP of Enterprise Systems at Indiana University, talked about how CrashPlan saved them $688K in storage overage fees! 💰 As Microsoft 365 data growth accelerates, organizations are seeking ways to control escalating storage costs while maintaining security, meeting data retention requirements, and ensuring full data recoverability. CrashPlan's backup solution helps organizations tackle this problem and cut storage overage fees tremendously. Read the case study: https://bit.ly/3OyNEBv #Microsoft #DataBackup #M365CC