Ransomware is one of the most dangerous and disruptive types of cyber threats we face today. Not only is it disruptive and costly for businesses, but it also causes massive disruption to the backbone of society. Here’s what happens and how to prevent ransomware in Microsoft 365 cloud.
How to Give Access to an Amazon S3 Folder to a User with CloudBerry Explorer
In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to grant users access to a specific folder in a bucket.
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Compare AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for Backup
Cloud users typically choose a multi-vendor approach for their data backup and storage tasks. Using different solutions leads to more flexibility and often allows to cut overall expenditures. Azure, AWS, and Google are among the world's top providers of cloud storage services, so it is important to know about their differences in order to choose the right vendor for each particular need.
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IAM Policy Wizard in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3
MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 is a freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage. This article explains how to use its IAM Policy Wizard. The wizard allows you to create a number of users, and grant them a set of common permissions to a number of buckets and generate Login Profiles. Continue reading
Microsoft Azure Cool Blob Storage Overview
Azure Cool Blob Storage is one of the storage tiers offered by Microsoft Azure. This article provides an overview of Microsoft Azure Cool Blob Storage and a short guide on how to start using it in MSP360 Backup.
How to Set Up Custom Credentials for Network Locations in MSP360 Backup
In this article we will overview how to add network credentials for network shares to be used for backup in MSP360 Backup.
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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Explained
Cloud world standards constantly become more demanding and high upload speed becomes a must, especially in business analytics and other real-time data processing areas. Being the world's leading provider of cloud solutions, Amazon Web Services intends to meet this challenge. So, a feature ensuring faster data transfer called Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration was added to Amazon S3.
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How to Enable Diagnostic Logging in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3
Even though we are spending a lot of time to make sure the product is stable and robust, issues come up every so often. Sometimes software behaves unexpectedly and erroneously and MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 is not an exception. But we believe a hallmark of the great software company is not that the product is error-free, but the way how quickly the support team can react on the issue and offer a solution. Continue reading
Support for Resumable Upload in MSP360 Explorer for Google Storage
In this article we explain how to use the Resumable Upload feature in MSP360 Explorer for Google Storage.
Developed Amazon S3 Synchronization Feature
In this blog post, we will demonstrate an optimization that we added to our "Sync Folders" feature that allows to sync Amazon S3 bucket with local folders. In the previous version of MSP360 S3 Explorer we do request header for each file on s3 to get original date modified. It used to make the user pay extra money to Amazon because of the number of requests (equals to the number of files on s3). If you let’s say have 70 000 files on S3 that you want to sync, every time sync feature runs it would run ahead request 70 000 times.
In version 2.0 we are adding an option "Compare Content", which is ON by default. Continue reading
OpenStack Keystone Verification Explained
To continue our conversation about authentication and authorization, we took a decision to consider OpenStack Keystone. This technology allows to make sure of the user’s identity and enhance the security of requests sent to OpenStack Services API without making outside access more complicated.
This article will be of use to everybody who wants to get an idea about OpenStack authentication and take a close look at its basic principles and logic. Continue reading