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Zero Trust Doesn’t Stop Hackers. Zero Access® Does.
The best way to completely protect your IT resources, including data, is by denying entities access to them in the first place. This is Zero Access®.
Future-Proofing Data Protection: Why Architecture Decisions You Make Today Will Define Your Recovery Capability
There’s a version of backup confidence that feels earned. From the inside, it can look like a problem solved...
Managing Growth: Shaped More by History Than Design
Most environments don’t set out to create fragmented backup systems. They grow into them.
Managing Growth: The Overlooked Threat to Your Backup Security
Discover how overlooked backup security can become a major vulnerability as environments grow, and learn strategies to strengthen your data protection.
Unified Data Protection for a Multicloud World
Unified data protection with Compass ensures consistent, automated, and secure backup for hybrid and multicloud environments, enhance resilience and reduce overhead.
Compass Protects It All: Unified Backup for Enterprise Workloads
Unified backup solution simplifies enterprise operations, protects diverse platforms, and reduces risks with Cobalt Iron Compass. Discover seamless data protection and management.
Maturity Model: How Compliance Drives Data Resilience
Maturity Model: How Compliance Drives Data Resilience — Transform your IBM i backup strategy with Cobalt Iron’s Compass and CTG for simplified, secure,
UPDATED: Locking Down Your Backup Environment to Protect It From Ransomware
Attack vectors grow with the complexity of your environment. Learn how to lock down access to your backup data.
Modern IBM i Backup: 7 Key Features That Simplify, Secure, and Scale
Transform your IBM i backup strategy with Cobalt Iron’s Compass and CTG for simplified, secure, and scalable data protection. Discover seven key features that future-proof your backup.
How to Cloud Responsibly™: A Strategic Guide to Secure, Scalable, and Smart Cloud Backup
Think cloud providers protect your data? Think again. Discover why cloud responsibility lies with you and how to safeguard your business from costly risks.
Cobalt Iron Compass Is the Key to Business Continuity for IBM Power VS Workloads
Discover how Compass boosts IBM Power workload security, simplifies backups, and ensures business continuity across cloud and on-premises
Securing Your Last Line of Defense — Part 3: Cyber Attack Monitoring, Detection, Analytics, and Remediation for Backup
Examine backup monitoring and remediation questions covering security patches, threat detection, cyber-attack impact analysis, and recovery-point selection.
Securing Your Last Line of Defense — Part 2: Backup Data Security
Assess backup data security through questions about inert data, integrity checks, and immutability, plus discussion of encryption and key management.
Securing Your Last Line of Defense — Part 1: Backup Environment Access Considerations
Review backup environment access questions covering multifactor authentication, direct server access, operational automation, and isolated security zones.
Safeguarding Your Business: Introducing Secure Automated Backup with Compass for IBM Power Virtual Server
Explore Secure Automated Backup with Compass for IBM Power Virtual Server, with discussion of hybrid backup, data governance, and backup management.
Compass Machine Learning Provides Up-to-the-Minute, Ever-Improving Access Control in Today’s Rapidly Changing IT Environments
Cobalt Iron has a patented technology for making on-the-fly adjustments to maintain your data backup security
CIO Best Practices for Modern Data Protection: A Summary
CIO Best Practices for Modern Data Protection: A Summary — Cobalt Iron outlines best practices that CIOs follow, Establishing comprehensive visibility
CIO Best Practices: Establishing Comprehensive Visibility and Control
Cobalt Iron outlines best practices that CIOs follow, Establishing comprehensive visibility and control over IT infrastructure and enterprise data backup
Is Data Governance a Missing Link in Your Data Resiliency Strategy?
Data governance is one of the many areas that set Cobalt Iron Compass apart from other backup products on the market.
Need a Better Way to Fulfill E-Discovery Requests Against Backup Data? Then Turn to Compass.
Decrease risk and improve data validation with e-discovery request techniques. Learn how Cobalt Iron Compass enhances data protection.
Want to Decrease Risk and Improve Data Validation? Choose Cyber Inspection With a Side of Machine Learning
Decrease risk and improve data validation with Cyber Inspection and Machine Learning techniques. Learn how Cobalt Iron Compass enhances data protection.
CIO Best Practices: Protecting and Securing
CIO Best Practices: Protecting and Securing — In our team’s decades of work with people who are in charge of enterprise data, we’ve distilled five best
With Compass, You’ll Always Have the Best Optimization of Cloud and On-Prem Resources for Data Operations
Discover how Cobalt Iron Compass® new patented techniques will use unique operational and infrastructure analytics to respond to changing conditions and to determine optimal usage of cloud and on-premises resources.
Overwhelmed Trying to Keep Your Backup Operations Healthy? Let Compass Do It for You.
Discover how Cobalt Iron Compass® revolutionizes data protection with its unique layers of security and automated remediation actions, making backup operations more resilient. Learn more now!
European Patent Office Recognizes Cobalt Iron’s Approach to Fidelity in Data Collection
European Patent Office recognizes Cobalt Iron’s unique approach to collecting and monitoring data depending on the situation.
Worried About Keeping Your Storage Devices Healthy? Compass Has You Covered.
One of our newest patents covers proactive technology for automated remediation of cyber and storage events. This patented technology is unique in its ability to remediate system health automatically when various failures and conditions arise that affect storage devices and backup operations.
No More Haphazard Responses to Cyber Attacks. Try Coordinated, Proactive, and Rule-Based Response Instead.
Our latest U.S. patent is on Cobalt Iron’s adaptive, policy-driven data cyber inspection technology. This patent introduces new policy-based approaches for effectively validating data integrity using multiple cyber inspection tools.
Looking for Enterprise Data Protection That Outperforms? GigaOm Says Look to Compass.
Cobalt Iron Compass is not only in the Leader circle for the second year in a row in the GigaOm 2023-2024 report, but this year also achieved Outperformer status, which indicates the fastest possible pace of innovation and rate of progression.
Using ML to Analyze Device Behavior and Health Keeps the Bad Guys Away From Your IT Resources
Our latest patented technology is called machine-learning-driven authentication control of IT resources. It is unique in that it will apply machine learning (ML) techniques to device behaviors and health status in your data backup environment
Is Your Financial Organization Cyber-Resilient?
Led by the financial industry itself, Sheltered Harbor gives you a plan for total cyber-resiliency, restore operations and access
Turn Your IT Infrastructure On to Thwart Cyberthreats
Learn about dynamic IT infrastructure optimization in response to cyberthreats.
CIO Best Practices: Intelligent Automation and Improving Service Through Optimization
CIO Best Practices: Intelligent Automation and Improving Service Through Optimization — In our team’s decades of work with people who are in charge
Authentication Control Practices Are Always Up to Date with Compass
Through new Machine Learning techniques to Compass' authentication control we're adding more layers of intelligence and security to IT operations.
CIO Best Practices: Rapid Provisioning
In our team’s decades of work with people who are in charge of enterprise data, we’ve distilled five best practices that CIO's rely on.
Take the Worry Out of Authorization Control
Authorization controls are how you validate who has proper security authentication and permissions to do something against some resource.
Have You Planned for Scalability in Your Backup Infrastructure? Is Your Backup Infrastructure Truly Scalable? If Not, It Could Cost You.
The challenges of having an Enterprise backup product that is either undersized with performance issues or overprovisioned with massive additional cost.
Simplify Management of Enterprise-Scale Backup Infrastructure
Managing enterprise backup infrastructure is complex and cumbersome. There are many different physical and software products that need to be combined.
Security Practices for Backing Up Data in the Cloud
What are some of the common pitfalls of securing data using cloud resources? And how can organizations get the right plans in place to avoid them?
Year in Review: Cobalt Iron’s Commitment to Adding Value for Customers
A review of the 2021 released Compass software functionality and the resulting industry recognition.
Compass Demo: Instant Restore for VMware Virtual Machines
In this demo we will show you how near-instant VM restore from Cobalt Iron Compass can speed recovery even for very large virtual machines.
25 Biggest Ransomware Attacks of the last year
In no particular order, the following roll-call of ransomware attacks occurring or reported over the past year underlines the alarming breadth of targets
Audit Readiness for Enterprise Backup
Compass is the only enterprise-class backup solution to offer comprehensive, continuous audit readiness across backup infrastructure, data, and operations
How Compass Approaches Data Protection - The Difference
What is the real difference between Compass and the rest of a noisy backup and data protection vendor market?
Give Your Spectrum Protect Customers Seamless, Secure Backup Without the Heavy Lifting
Because you can now get Compass through IBM Passport Advantage, you can give your customers a seamless, secure backup experience without doing any heavy lifting.
CTO Q&A: Containment by Design for Secure Backup Data Protection
Security can’t be an add-on or an afterthought. It takes containment by design. We asked Cobalt Iron CTO Rob Marett to explain this approach.
Bringing Virtual Machines into Enterprise Backup
VMs need to be recovered from backup effectively and quickly, but many organizations use separate solutions for backing up physical and virtual machines.
Never Pay the Hackers: How To Protect Your Enterprise From Cybercrime
Cybercrime is becoming an epidemic, and these events are a warning to IT leaders: If you don’t get your house in order, you could be next.
Filling the Gaps in Enterprise Backup for Edge Computing
Edge computing makes protecting that data dramatically more complex leaving gaps in backup that create an opening for errors and bad actors to take over.
Extending IBM Spectrum Protect With Intelligent Data Protection
As a SaaS platform, Compass complements Spectrum Protect, enabling enterprises to orchestrate their backup experiences without a large, upfront investment.
Lenovo + Compass Secure the Full Data Protection Lifecycle
As a Lenovo On Demand partner, Cobalt Iron delivers the benefits of the Compass best-of-breed enterprise SaaS data protection to Lenovo’s customers.
When Disaster Strikes, Compass and Cobalt Iron are at Your Side
Here’s a recent example of how Compass and the Cobalt Iron team helped a customer dealing with a ransomware attack.
Multitenancy for MSPs and Large Enterprises
With Cobalt Iron’s Compass data protection platform MSPs and large enterprises are able to set up access control and chargeback for large, disparate environments on a true multitenant architecture.
Effective Data Retention: It’s All About Consistent Policy Management
It can be difficult to manage data retention with consistency, increasing time spent on backups, recovering data, or the inability to recover data at all.
How to Register a Client with the Compass Commander Interface
Compass makes it easy for organizations to configure and customize their backup environment operations. This demo shows you how it works.
Top 5 Reasons Why Companies Still Use Tape Backup
Here are the top five tape storage “claims” and the reasons why you should ignore them and actually improve your business outcomes.
How comprehensive backup reporting features reduce risk
Compass solves the challenge of visibility with comprehensive dashboards and reporting. Here's how users navigate the reporting features in Commander.
Multitenant Backup Operations Management with Compass® Commander
Use a single interface, the Compass Commander, to manage all of your data protection infrastructure and operations – regardless of workload or location.
Backup Is Great, But Recovery Is Everything
Avoid data backup disasters. Follow these best practices to ensure that secure recoveries are possible.
Advanced Data Protection for Higher Education
With their large numbers of users, universities are a juicy target for hackers looking for personal and financial information.
Pull Your VTLs Out of Their Administrative Silos
We don't believe that architecture and infrastructure should be an inhibitor of effective management of data protection operations.
The Average Cost of a Data Breach is $4 Million – Can Your Team Afford That?
Leaders who drag their feet on infrastructure investments to keep them in compliance are playing with fire and putting the entire company at risk.
Going Way Beyond Reports: How Using Backup Analytics Saves Time and Money
Data analytics could free you from the drudgery of many time-consuming backup functions that are currently handled manually.
Data Protection Essentials for State and Local Governments
State and local government entities have critical and unique requirements when it comes to data backup, protection, and recovery.
The Value of Backup Automation at Enterprise-Scale
The amount of data and number of tasks managed by enterprises makes backup automation key for organizations in the full swing of digital transformation.
The Building Blocks of Backup and Recovery Analytics
In order to create effective analytics, there must be data to analyze – the more comprehensive, the more opportunity there is to glean valuable insights.
Integrating Backup Workflows in Enterprise IT
Integration between your enterprise applications and backup environment is critical to eliminating risk and successful digital transformation.
How Companies Use Containers vs Microservices
Every cloud vendor already has cloud container capabilities, you just need to understand how to use them.
Migrating to the Cloud? Backup Applications and Keep Your Data Secure
Think that cloud providers protect your data? While most provide replicated copies of data it's not enough to protect you from data loss or data corruption
The Compass® Experience – Tools and Support for Our Users
Whether a new Cobalt Iron customer or curious what it's like to go from complexity to a hassle-free backup administration here is what you can expect.
How to Make Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) More Profitable
Risk factors and operational management for backup infrastructure can be reduced or eliminated which leads to larger margins and consistent SLAs.
Make the Switch to Compass and Empower Remote Backups
“Make the Switch Without the Risk” allows new customers to migrate to Compass for the same price they're currently paying for existing backup software.
How Government Agencies Can Improve Cyber Security and Reduce Costs
Government agencies are ripe targets for hackers and malware attacks - we understand the cybersecurity challenges of state and local governments.
Can you transition your backup administration team to remote work?
How can you keep your workflows secure and updated, and ensure business continuity when your administrators can’t physically be at the data center?
UPDATED: Does Your Backup Environment Support Compliance Mandates?
More regulation means a need for secure, efficient, and cost-effective data protection. Staying compliant doesn’t have to interfere with business agility.
Risk Mitigation: A Critical Link in Cyber Security
With cyber threats on the rise, protecting sensitive data from malicious attacks has become job one for data center professionals everywhere.
What is the alternative to Veritas NetBackup?
If your company is like many with legacy NetBackup installations, you’re probably taking a hard look at migrating to a more modern solution.
How to build and maintain a secure data backup environment
How do you meet all the requirements for modern enterprise data backup? Learn what it takes to assemble the team and the resources for success.
Is Tape Backup Dead?
There are many (painful) reasons to eliminate reliance on tape-based backup solutions. Here's how to tell if it's the right move for your organization.
Best Practices for Enterprise NAS Backup
When it comes to data backup, enterprise NAS is a whole different animal from NAS solutions designed for smaller operations.
Stop Believing These 3 Myths About Enterprise Backup And Recovery
There are a lot of myths about how enterprise backup has to be complex, expensive, or difficult to maintain. We're busting those myths.
How to Quit Data Domain
It’s possible to free yourselves from Data Domain and bring a new modernized experience to your backup operations in the process.
Petabyte - How Much Information Could it Actually Hold?
Even data managers don’t always have a way to visualize the actual volume of data they’re dealing with and are surprised by the physics of that much data.
How to Map Your Journey to Autonomous, Secure Data Protection
It’s important to assess your organization's backup maturity and if you're where you want to be. Mapping your future can help put you on a path to success.
What is Cobalt Iron Compass®?
Backup and recovery solutions options are everywhere. Compass, Cobalt Iron's flagship SaaS-based enterprise data protection platform, stands out.
How to Improve Cloud Enterprise Backup
Improve cloud enterprise backup with an automated, secure, and analytics-optimized solution. Focus on business requirements and growth, not mundane tasks.
Life as a backup administrator: A before-and-after story
Life as a backup administrator: A before-and-after story by Tim Whited.
How Retail Operations Modernize Backup with Compass®
Learn how Cobalt Iron modernized data protection for global food distributor Cheney Brothers.
New Technologies Bring New Challenges for Enterprise Backup
Learn how new technologies in backup and recovery may not necessarily make lives easier in the short-term.
Addressing vs. Solving - do you know the difference?
Learn the difference between addressing a problem and solving a problem in the data backup environment.
Shining a Light on Automation Oversight - Part 2 of two part series
Shining a Light on Automation Oversight - Part 2 of two part series — Learn how automation can impact your data protection landscape.
Be Careful What You Automate - Part 1 of two part series
Learn how automation can impact your data protection landscape.
Cyber Resilience Versus Cyber Security?
Learn about how Cyber Security is built natively into Compass.
Need to Simplify Management of Your Multitenant Environment? We’ve Got a Patent for That!
Learn how Cobalt Iron is innovating the backup space with patents.
It’s Not Paranoia If They Really Are Out to Get You
Learn how security is at the core of Compass® as a backup software solution.
The Rocket Science of Data Protection
Read about best practices around data protection solutions that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Why Companies Should Bring the Backup Discussion to the Board Room
Learn how enterprise board of directors think about data protection.
Compass Promotes VTL Functionality to First Class Data Protection
Learn about Compass Virtual Tape Library as an ingest path for data protection.
Modern Data Protection for Work and Profit
Learn how Compass© helps enterprises modernize their data backup strategy.
The Winner’s Problem – Technical Legacies and Legacy Technology
Learn how Compass© helps Enterprises reduce the legacy challenges with aging technology.
Can You Really Afford Reliable Data Protection?
Learn how Compass© helps enterprises eliminate cost overruns in the backup landscape.
Protecting All Data in a Complex World
Learn how Cobalt Iron's Compass© eliminates complexity and low-level skill requirement on behalf of their clients.
Opening a New Chapter
Learn about Cobalt Iron and what the future has in store for this innovative company.
Beyond Backup: Building Cyber Resilience for IBM i in a Zero Trust Era
Learn how to enhance IBM i cyber resilience with automation, Zero Trust principles, and immutable backups to combat evolving cyber threats effectively.
Helping Healthcare IT Take the Guesswork out of Data Protection
Stakes are high for organizations that fail to properly protect patient data. Risks include financial penalties and reputation damage. But there's help.