backup immutability

Storage and data protection vendors spent the final days of March and the opening hours of April making a familiar but increasingly urgent argument: resilience now means much more than backup alone. The week’s biggest announcements spanned cloud storage benchmarking, privacy operations, identity...

Google Cloud’s 2026 hardening update is a wake-up call: threat actors increasingly target the virtualization layer to perform reconnaissance, steal Active Directory material offline, or permanently destroy availability by corrupting virtual disks and backups. The technical countermeasure set it...