How Businesses Can Improve Their Cybersecurity Posture in 2025: Insights from 2024 Trends
How Businesses Can Improve Their Cybersecurity Posture in 2025: Insights from 2024 Trends In an increasingly interconnected world, improving cybersecurity remains a critical priority for businesses of all sizes. The year 2024 has seen a surge in cyberattacks, with threat actors leveraging more sophisticated methods to exploit vulnerabilities. As we
The Importance of Automated System Recovery: Insights Backed by Cohesity Reports
The Importance of Automated System Recovery: Insights Backed by the 2024 Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report In today’s increasingly hostile cyber landscape, the ability to quickly recover systems after an attack or failure is more crucial than ever. Subsequently Automated system recovery is not just a convenience—it’s a necessity for
The Top 5 Causes of System Recovery Failure and How to Avoid Them
The Top 5 Causes of System Recovery Failure and How to Avoid Them In today’s always-on business environment, system recovery is more than just a technical safeguard, it’s a critical component of business continuity. When a system recovery plan fails, the consequences can include extended downtime, lost revenue, and damaged
The extent of cybercrime in the US pharmaceutical industry
The extent of Cybercrime in the US Pharmaceutical Industry Cybercrime in the pharmaceutical industry is very prominent in the United States due to its high-value intellectual property (IP), sensitive patient data, and essential role in healthcare. The extent of cybercrime in this sector is significant, as evidenced by several key
The New Threats to Connected Manufacturing
Manufacturing is facing a new era of cybercrime Ransomware in manufacturing is rising fast. Manufacturing companies face a growing array of challenges related to cybercrime, largely due to the evolving nature of their IT systems and their reliance on operational technology (OT). These challenges stem from the convergence of IT
The painful cost of Cybercrime to the US Healthcare Sector
The painful cost of Cybercrime to the US Healthcare Sector In February 2024, UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary, Change Healthcare, suffered a significant cybersecurity breach, which has had far-reaching consequences across the U.S. healthcare system. The attack, attributed to the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, compromised both personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health
Cristie Software in Healthcare
Cristie Software in Healthcare: Balancing Patient Data Security with Rapid Recovery The healthcare industry faces a unique challenge: safeguarding sensitive patient data while ensuring rapid system recovery in the event of failures or cyber incidents. With healthcare providers increasingly reliant on digital systems to manage patient records, treatment plans, and
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery with Cristie Software: Benefits and Considerations In today’s digital-first world, disaster recovery (DR) is no longer an afterthought for organizations—it’s a critical component of business continuity. Whether it’s natural disasters, cyberattacks, or hardware failures, unforeseen events can have devastating effects on company operations. Cloud-based disaster recovery (DR)
Financial Services: Disaster Recovery for the Age of FinTech
Financial Services: Disaster Recovery for the Age of FinTech The financial services industry has undergone a digital revolution driven by FinTech (financial technology). With innovations like blockchain, mobile banking, AI-powered financial tools, and payment gateways, the sector has become more efficient but also more vulnerable to disruptions, including cyberattacks, system
The State of Disaster Recovery and Cyber-Recovery, 2024–2025
IDC/Zerto – The State of Disaster Recovery and Cyber-Recovery, 2024–2025. IDC recently published the white paper “The State of Disaster Recovery and Cyber-Recovery, 2024–2025: Factoring in AI” sponsored by Zerto which highlights current trends in disaster protection strategies in the face of growing cybercrime. The paper also presents survey results
The True Cost of Cybercrime in the US Manufacturing Sector
The True Cost of Cybercrime in the Manufacturing Sector: Impact, Case Studies, and Mitigation Ransomware is a rapidly growing threat causing the cost of cybercrime to US manufacturing to extend far beyond financial losses. As more manufacturing companies embrace digital transformation, they expose themselves to vulnerabilities in their IT and
Don’t leave your System Recovery Plan until you need it most
Don’t leave your System Recovery Plan until you need it most System recovery is often overlooked. Many organizations don’t realize the importance of having a robust system recovery plan alongside their application data backups until it’s too late. Accidents, natural disasters, hardware failures, and malware attacks can happen at any
Ransomware Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide
Ransomware Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide Ransomware attacks are a growing threat, crippling businesses and organizations of all sizes. These malicious programs encrypt your data, rendering it inaccessible until you pay a ransom to regain control. Unfortunately, paying the ransom doesn’t guarantee data recovery, and it fuels the cybercrime industry. This
Industries with Stringent DR and System Recovery Requirements
Industries with Stringent DR and System Recovery Requirements Several industries face stringent regulations regarding disaster recovery and computer system recovery time objectives. These regulations aim to ensure business continuity and protect sensitive data in the event of disruptions. Here are some prominent examples: Financial Services Banking: Banks are subject to
NIS2: Raising the bar on IT System Recovery for Organizations
NIS2: Raising the bar on IT System Recovery for Organizations The EU’s Network and Information Systems Security Directive 2 (NIS2) raises the bar for cybersecurity across various industries. One critical area of focus is IT system recovery, demanding a more proactive and robust approach from organizations. This article explores how
MSPs Simplify multi-tenant system migration with CloneManager
Addressing System Migration Challenges for MSPs with Cristie Software The complexities of system migration for MSPs can be significantly mitigated by utilizing system replication and migration tools from Cristie Software. Cristie’s CloneManager software allows MSPs to easily provide system migration as-a-service for their customers. Here’s how Cristie’s solutions address specific
Why Upgrading to the Latest Windows Version is Crucial
Why Upgrading to the Latest Windows Version is Crucial Keeping Windows based servers updated to the latest version is regularly overlooked, but it is crucial for maintaining your system’s security, performance, and overall functionality. Windows OS updates can be automated with Cristie’s CloneManager replication and migration software simplifying the upgrade
Fast CrowdStrike Recovery should be a reality for users of System Recovery software
Fast CrowdStrike Recovery should be a reality for users of System Recovery software CrowdStrike recovery is an activity and topic of focus for many organizations following the CrowdStrike bug that caused a global IT outage on July 18th and 19th, 2024. The number of users effected is unknown, however, we
Orchestrating Your Comeback: How Automation Streamlines System Recovery
Orchestrating Your Comeback: How Automation Streamlines System Recovery In today’s digital landscape, downtime can be devastating. Every minute a system is offline translates to lost productivity, revenue, and potentially, customer trust. Organizations are constantly searching for ways to minimize downtime and ensure a swift recovery in the event of a
HIPPA requirements for System Recovery
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) specific requirements for System Recovery HIPAA has specific regulations regarding system recovery within the healthcare sector, particularly under the Security Rule, which focuses on safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI). While HIPAA doesn’t prescribe specific technical solutions, it establishes guidelines that healthcare providers
Stuck in Limbo: Why Recovering from a Cyberattack Can Take Forever
Stuck in Limbo: Why Recovering from a Cyberattack Can Take Forever Cyberattacks are a harsh reality of the digital age. While the initial shock of a breach is bad enough, the real pain can come later: prolonged system downtime. This can cripple businesses, erode customer trust, and cost millions in
Navigating Recovery in a Hybrid World: Physical Systems vs. Virtual Machines
Navigating Recovery in a Hybrid World: Physical Systems vs. Virtual Machines In the aftermath of a cyberattack or system outage, restoring critical systems quickly and effectively is paramount for minimizing downtime and returning to business as usual. However, modern IT infrastructures often include a blend of physical servers and virtual
How to close the Top 5 Disaster Recovery Plan Gaps
How to close the Top 5 Disaster Recovery Plan Gaps. A disaster recovery (DR) plan is an essential part of any organization’s risk management strategy. It outlines the steps that need to be taken in order to recover from natural disasters, cyber-attacks, or any other unexpected event that could disrupt
Proactive ransomware testing with Advanced Anomaly Detection & Cleanroom Recovery
Proactive ransomware testing with Advanced Anomaly Detection & Cleanroom Recovery Having early warning of malicious file encryption is vital to limit the damage potential from a ransomware attack. Cristie Software Advanced Anomaly Detection can identify suspicious file structure changes by comparing live systems against meta data held from the most
The Ripple Effects of System Downtime: How Industries Crumble When Technology Falters
The Ripple Effects of System Downtime: How Industries Crumble When Technology Falters In today’s interconnected world, businesses rely heavily on technology for operations, transactions, and communications. When these vital systems grind to a halt, the consequences can be severe and multifaceted. The impact of system downtime ripples far beyond mere
Operational Resilience: System Recovery as Your Key Compliance Safeguard
Operational Resilience: System Recovery as Your Key Compliance Safeguard Operational resilience has emerged as the cornerstone of modern financial industry regulations. Firms are now required not only to prevent disruptions, but also to ensure they can rapidly recover critical functionalities when inevitable problems arise. This is where a robust system
BMR vs. Replication: Choosing Your Disaster Recovery Path Based on RTOs
BMR vs. Replication: Choosing Your Disaster Recovery Path Based on RTOs When it comes to disaster recovery, the speed at which you can recover systems, often defined as your Recovery Time Objective (RTO), is crucial for minimizing downtime and its associated costs. Cristie Software offers two powerful tools to meet
What is the major hole in 80% of DR plans?
What is the major hole in 80% of DR plans? Cloud computing dominates the enterprise computing landscape and is set to continue this protectory. A recent report from HashiCorp indicated that 90% of large enterprises had adopted a multi-cloud infrastructure. However, this focus on virtualization is side-tracking many disaster recovery
Simplifying migration from VMware
Simplifying migration from VMware Cristie Software offer an easy migration path from VMware for customers looking to move to alternative environments. Despite the dominance of VMware in virtualization, cloud management, end user computing, and hyperconverged infrastructure technologies, leading analyst house Forrester predicts that 20 percent of existing VMware customers will
Reducing risk for Insurance industry digital transformation.
Reducing risk for Insurance industry digital transformation. Cristie Software work with many insurance industry firms to provide system recovery and migration solutions to support disaster recovery and aid the move towards full digitalization. 2024 marks a period of significant change for the insurance industry with digital transformation and cyber resilience
Simplifying System Migration to Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
Simplifying System Migration to Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) is a solution offered by Microsoft that brings together Windows Server technologies with Azure services to enable hybrid cloud scenarios. We have noticed an increase in Azure Stack HCI migration projects within our enterprise base, particularly with
Is it time to address your cybersecurity balance to deliver greater focus on recovery?
Is it time to address your cybersecurity balance to deliver greater focus on recovery? Protecting your critical business data from cyber threats is more important now than ever. With the rise of ransomware and other cyberattacks, it could be time to address your cybersecurity balance. The National Institute of Standards
Cristie Recovery RBMR for Rubrik now with full Rubrik Security Cloud integration
Cristie Recovery RBMR for Rubrik now with full Rubrik Security Cloud integration. Cristie Software System Recovery for Rubrik (RBMR) provides Rubrik Security Cloud integration with automatic discovery of all Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) protected files, volumes, and machines. Customers can combine the benefits of Rubrik zero-trust data security with
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in financial sector cybersecurity.
The role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in financial sector cybersecurity. The banking industry has been an early adopter of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning (ML) employing the technology in many applications to enhance operations and customer experiences. Areas to improve customer service such as document
The importance of Operational Resilience in the U.S. financial sector
The importance of Operational Resilience in the U.S. financial sector. Operational resilience is a critically important topic for the financial sector. It refers to a financial institution’s ability to withstand and adapt to disruptions such as cyberattacks, natural disasters and pandemics while continuing to provide essential services to its customers
How to achieve fast and efficient System Recovery
How to achieve fast and efficient System Recovery. Keeping system recovery time to a minimum following any outage is vital for many reasons; loss of revenue, poor customer experience, and diminished brand reputation are high on the list. There are several factors that affect system recovery time which are common
Operational Resilience in the Asia Pacific financial sector
Operational Resilience in the Asia Pacific financial sector. Operational resilience will continue to be a key regulatory focus for the Asia Pacific (AP) financial sector throughout 2023 and beyond. All businesses and regulators in the area continue to place increased emphasis on operational resilience and the management of disruptions to
Bare-metal recovery (RBMR) for Rubrik users
Bare-metal recovery (RBMR) for Rubrik users. Cybersecurity and disaster recovery (DR) requires a layered approach to ensure all elements of a company’s IT infrastructure are protected. Customers can rely on Rubrik to cyber-proof their enterprise data on physical systems and virtual machines with air-gapped, immutable, access-controlled backups that can protect
Simplifying Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector
Simplifying Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) respective policy statements PS21/3 & PS6/21 published in March 2021 established the frameworks for relevant firms within the financial sector to implement measures that would ensure Operational Resilience for important business services. The
Reduce RPO with CloneManager Changed Block Tracking
Reduce RPO with CloneManager changed block tracking. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is a crucial concept in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It represents the maximum amount of data loss that an organization is willing to tolerate in the event of a system failure and is expressed as an
Ransomware detection and enhanced recovery now included in the Cristie Software recovery and replication portfolio
Early ransomware detection incorporated into your system recovery process. When cybercriminals orchestrate a human led cyberattack, they may have spent months identifying and overcoming defences to maximise the impact of their attack. Regardless of whether their entry was through commodity malware, or the exploitation of an outdated or misconfigured web
Cloud Migration with automated OS Modernization
Cloud migration presents a great opportunity to move applications to a more modern operating system (OS). In some cases, an OS update may be mandatory to meet the minimum supported cloud platform OS image versions. For example, Oracle Cloud currently offers Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, Datacenter as the earliest
The Cristie Software Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning and System Recovery Processes
The downtime of critical IT systems will impact the normal flow of business processes in some way and in nearly every case result in lost revenue.
Introducing CloneManager Offline Replication.
Here’s an introduction to a new feature that will be brought to our Virtual Appliance – CloneManager Offline Replication. This is an alternative cloning mechanism to standard CloneManager, using a different agent, and no live environment for the target.
What Are The Benefits of DR Orchestration?
Server failures and IT disasters can happen when you least expect them. Here’s how Cristie DR orchestration can further enhance your business’s resiliency by automating all the stages of your recovery process and taking your DR testing to the next level.
Using CloneManager for a Virtual to Virtual Migration
In the highly regulated financial services industry, system failure is not an option. Here’s how Cristie CloneManager kept systems running during a virtual to virtual migration.
The Importance of Replication In Your Disaster Recovery Strategy
Here, we discuss why replication should be an important part of your Disaster Recovery Strategy. We’ll also look at how Cristie’s CloneManager software uses replication to make your business more resilient to disaster.
What’s New for Q2
We’ve had a fantastic start to 2021. Here, Cristie Principal Architect Jordan Storford talks us through the releases planned for Q2.
How To Improve Your Business Resilience with Recovery Testing
Recovery testing your entire estate can help improve your business’s resiliency, save time and resources and help you meet your audit and compliance targets. Read here the why, what and how of recovery testing.
Thinking about recovering your systems manually? Read this first.
Thinking about manual system recovery? Don’t do it! Here’s the reality of manual system recovery versus protecting your systems with Cristie BMR.
What is System Recovery and Why Is It Important?
If your servers fail, you’ll need to recover your lost operating systems and applications as well as your data. Read here why system recovery is such an important part of your business planning, and how Cristie software can help keep your systems protected.
Cristie in the Asia-Pacific region. A Q&A with Jamie Allan, Territory Manager
The Asia-Pacific region is an important one for Cristie software. Read here what Territory Manager Jamie Allan has learned from working there.
7 Steps to a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan
Are you prepared for system failure? Read here the 7 steps needed to create a successful disaster recovery plan.
How to Strengthen Your Replications with Enhanced Testing
Cristie CloneManager’s Enhanced Testing feature helps you resolve issues with your replicated system while maintaining your RPOs. Read here how it works.
A Q&A with our Head of Business Development, Scott Sterry
Meet Scott Sterry, our VP for Business Development. Here he talks about what sets Cristie software apart and what’s coming up this year.
An Introduction to CoBMR
Meet CoBMR, our new product that provides DR level protection for systems backed up by Cohesity DataProtect.
How TBMR Helped a US Healthcare Company Achieve Their Recovery Goals
Cristie TBMR software protects your critical servers from failure or disaster, by recovering them directly from your IBM Spectrum Protect backup. Here’s how TBMR helped US Healthcare company, Albert Einstein improve their recoveries.
The Cristie 2021 Roadmap
Want to find out what’s coming up from Cristie Software in 2021? Here’s our Principal Architect Jordan Stopford to tell us more.
Meet Jim Carter, Customer Support Manager at Cristie
Jim Carter heads up our Customer Support and Testing teams at Cristie. Here he tells us what a typical day looks like, what sets Cristie apart, and how his team has adapted to remote working in 2020.
How CloneManager’s New Automated Failover and Failback Protects Your Critical Systems
Read here how automated failover and failback helps keep critical systems up and running as well as giving reassurance that your systems are protected.
Migrating across Dissimilar Environments with CloneManager software.
One of our UK customers, Tata Consultancy, needed a solution to enable them to migrate between dissimilar environments without data loss or system downtime. Here’s how CloneManager helped them.
Failover and Failback. How to use it as part of Cristie’s CloneManager software
System replication can be high risk. Your priority will be to avoid downtime and make sure that your systems are protected. Here’s how to use failover and failback to protect your systems.
A Tour of the Cristie CBMR using our Virtual Appliance
The Cristie CBMR is a standalone solution that provides full protection for data files and databases, restoring critical servers in minutes. Here’s a tour of how it works.
CloneManager Lite. Straightforward replication software for simple migrations
Our software can protect every business’ systems, no matter how large or small. And for the small to medium businesses (SMEs) that make up 99% of the UK’s economy, we’ve launched CloneManager Lite. Learn more about CloneManger Lite here.
CloneManager keeps systems operational for a large US healthcare company
In the US healthcare sector, system failure is not an option. Real lives depend on systems being able to function properly at all times. Here’s how our CloneManager software helped our healthcare customer stay operational.
Cristie Looks Towards 2021
We’ll look back on 2020 as a time when we’ve made progress on product development, product improvement and R&D. Here’s what we’ve got planned for 2021.
5 Things You Need To Know About CloneManager
CloneManager is software that protects your business from system disruption or failure. Here are 5 things you need to know about our replication software, CloneManager.
The Cristie Year In Review
2020. How was it for you? This last year has been like nothing we’ve ever experienced. But after the initial disruption in March of moving from office based to remote working, we’ve had a productive and successful year. As we move into December and with year end in sight, we’re
Enhanced Testing – Roadmap 2020
Cristie’s Virtual Appliance software console has a new feature for CloneManager, enhanced testing for physical environments. Scott and Jordan give us the roadmap overview for this new feature. If you’d like to know more, see a demo or set up a free trial of our software, just email Scott on
Empirical Technical Debt
Determining the cost and location of technical debt using measurements of velocity in a DevOps organisation. By measuring the time it takes to make change, and the locations where change is hardest, we estimate the interest we are paying on technical debt and the best place to start paying off the capital.
SysBack 7.1
Cristie are pleased to announce the release of SysBack 7.1 for AIX, the first release of SysBack for AIX constructed and tested at Cristie. This includes support of TSM 8.1.4 and above using SSL certificates, modifications and corrections to the licensing model and minor bug fixes in scripts, code and documentation.
Mixing the old and the new
If you haven’t tested your recoveries, you do not have backups. All well and good, but in a heterogeneous computing environment systems rely on each other …and sometimes, some of those systems pre-date virtualisation and require extra care…
Don’t go chasing waterfalls
In 1910 Henry Gantt laid out a framework that was used in World War 1 to manage the manoeuvring of weaponry, “The Gantt Chart” has been part of project management vocabulary ever since. In his book “The art of doing twice the work in half the time” Jeff Sutherland explains…
Supporting the charities Place2Be and Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust
This holiday season we are making two charitable donations, supporting Place2Be and Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust.
Meet us at IBM Tech U, New Orleans OCT-17
Cristie Software will be exhibiting at the IBM Tech U event in New Orleans this October. Come meet the team in the solutions centre at booth No. 66 to find out more about our system recovery, server migration and server replication software.
Can we have a drumroll please…
Ok so it’s not a sparkling new car, but we are immensely proud to finally reveal our shiny new company brochure.
The latest on Protect
Early adopters (EAs) have now been using Protect for a couple of weeks and have been appreciating the simplicity of protecting their virtual machines using Cristie. Deployed and managed through the intuitive GUI of the Cristie Virtual Appliance (VA); a few clicks and your virtual machine or machines are protected. Feedback…
Cristie Community Forum
Share ideas. Gain insight. Contribute. We are excited to launch the Cristie Community Forum. It’s a new initiative to increase our communication and engagement with our valued customers and partners. We’ll share the latest information about our products and product roadmap, as well as invite you to share tips and tricks in using Cristie solutions that you feel will benefit others.
Why IT sleeps better with Cristie
With 96% of SMB IT professionals fearing that they will be held personally responsible for data and machine recovery problems – it’s no wonder that many are now seeking ‘recovery assurance’. This is more than the latest buzz phrase in the backup and recovery industry – it’s essential for a successful and auditable disaster recovery strategy.
Cristie Software launches a new management console for users of CBMR protect software
Cristie Software a leading provider of machine mobility and recovery software today announced the launch of a new console to provide full deployment, management, monitoring and reporting services for all CBMR backups.
Cristie Software announces the latest release of CloneManager™ to provide agentless migrations.
The new agentless feature allows machines to be cloned to and from physical, virtual and cloud environments without the need to install any agent software on the source machine. This is a major step that allows locked down or restricted machines to be cloned or migrated.
Cristie releases its cloud migration solution, CloneManager
Cristie Software has today made the first release of CloneManager; a software solution that migrates running Windows or Linux servers to another location which may be a physical, virtual or cloud environment.
Cristie releases new BMR solution for EMC Avamar users
Cristie Software today announced the release of ABMR, a new software product specifically for users of EMC Avamar backup software which provides fast automated recovery of machines direct from normal Avamar backups.
Cristie offer replacement for end of life HomeBase
Cristie Software is offering EMC HomeBase users a low cost option to migrate to NBMR following EMC’s decision to make HomeBase end of life from 12th August 2012.
New release launched today – NBMR for Linux 6.4.2
We are pleased to announce the latest release of NBMR 6.4.2 for Linux has been launched today.
Cristie Software November Bulletin out today
What a packed edition of the bulletin we have this month with the launch of our latest product announced!
Latest version of NBMR for Windows released today
We are pleased to announce the new release of NBMR 6.4.2 for Windows was launched today.
Kwik data recover called for as server fails for main customer contact centre
Latest testimional from Kwik-Fit Financial Services using TBMR.
