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The Role of Encryption in Cloud Data Backup and Security

In today’s digital age, businesses and individuals alike are increasingly reliant on the cloud for data storage and backup solutions. The convenience and scalability of cloud services make them an attractive option for safeguarding critical information. However, with …

October 9, 2023

Three Benefits of using S3 bucket for website hosting and data storage

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a popular choice for hosting websites and storing data in the cloud. Here are three benefits of using S3 for these purposes: High availability: One of the main benefits of using S3 …

July 4, 2023
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Cloud Data Loss Due to Human Error: Real-Life Case Studies and Lessons Learned

Cloud data loss due to human error is a common and often devastating problem that can have serious consequences for businesses and individuals alike. While the benefits of using cloud storage are many, it’s important to be aware …

June 6, 2023

Navigating the Cloud Native Landscape: 3 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Choosing a Platform

As more and more businesses move their operations to the cloud, the concept of “cloud native” has become increasingly important. But what exactly does it mean to be cloud-native, and how can you ensure that you’re making the …

May 24, 2023

How to Restore RDS from Backup Without Changing the RDS Endpoint

Restoring an RDS (Relational Database Service) instance from a backup is an essential task for many database administrators. It’s crucial to have a reliable backup and recovery strategy in place to ensure that your data is safe and …

March 27, 2023

5 Cost Saving Strategies for Your Cloud Environment

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has become an essential component of many organizations’ IT infrastructure. However, as with any IT expenditure, the cost of using the cloud can quickly add up. In this article, …

February 17, 2023

Exploring the security features of AWS Backup: Protecting your data in the Cloud

AWS Backup is a fully managed service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of your data in the cloud. With AWS Backup, you can easily protect your data …

February 6, 2023

The top 5 benefits of using Amazon EFS for file storage and management

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a fully managed service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances. EFS is designed to be highly available and scalable, with no …

February 6, 2023

The Hidden Danger of Insider Threats in the Cloud: How to Prevent Data Loss

The use of cloud services has become increasingly widespread in recent years, with many businesses and organizations relying on the cloud for data storage, processing, and other critical functions. While the cloud offers numerous benefits, it also presents …

January 25, 2023

RBI Guidelines for Fintech: The Role of Data Protection and Data Backup

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a set of guidelines for fintech companies operating in the country, with a focus on ensuring the safety and security of customers’ data. These guidelines place a strong emphasis on …

January 11, 2023

Cloud Platform Protection: A Necessity

Cloud platform protection is a crucial aspect of any organization’s security posture. With the increasing reliance on cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and data storage, it is more important than ever to ensure that your cloud platform is secure and …

January 5, 2023

10 Worst Ransomware Attacks in History: The High Cost of Cybercrime

Ransomware attacks are a growing threat to businesses and individuals around the world. These attacks involve hackers encrypting a victim’s data and demanding a ransom in exchange for the decryption key. The cost of these attacks can be …

December 23, 2022

Restore SQL database using Nimesa

In the previous blog, we saw how to protect SQL databases deployed on EC2 instances. In this blog, we will see options provided by Nimesa to restore the SQL database through the wizard. Nimesa Restore Wizard To restore …

May 19, 2021
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NIMESA won 3rd runner-up prize in Amazon Smbhav

“NIMESA, a Bangalore-based start-up, has won the 3rd runner-up prize in the prestigious National level Amazon Smbhav Entrepreneurship Challenge 2021” Amazon Smbhav awards celebrate and recognize businesses, innovators, and individuals who have excelled in their field of work …

April 21, 2021
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Air-Gapped Backup and DR Solution for AWS

Nimesa Technology, an innovative Cloud Data Management solution provider, lunches Air Gapped Backup and DR solution 2.0 for AWS workloads on world backup day.  What is Air gapped Backup? Air-gapped functionality creates and stores secure and immutable backup copy outside …

April 1, 2021

Critical backup strategy to protect your valuable data

Today’s enterprise needs a more efficient data backup strategy to mitigate the risks of failures. Storage has become increasingly cheaper and more resilient. But still, there are many challenges a backup or IT administrator needs to worry about. …

February 2, 2021

SQL Server data backup strategy in AWS

In this blog, we will see different approaches an organization take to protect their SQL Server. We will look into the pros and cons of each approach. There are three different approaches. Native SQL Backup To protect SQL …

March 27, 2020

Backup and Restore Windows Workloads through Nimesa

Overview Windows is one of the popular choices of operating systems used in enterprises, and a lot of critical enterprise components like Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, MySQL, and Active Directory are deployed by enterprises. One …

February 12, 2020

Secure MySQL Database Using Nimesa

Let’s figure how to easily secure MySQL database MySQL server is a widely used database in the data centers. It is critical to secure the databases on a periodic basis. Backup forms an important day to day activity …

February 10, 2020
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Backup the Encrypted EBS volumes to DR Region / cross-account DR

Amazon EBS encryption offers a straight-forward encryption solution for your EBS resources that don’t require you to build, maintain, and secure your own key management infrastructure. It uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMK) …

January 1, 2020

Application consistent protection of MySQL databases: Nimesa approach

Nimesa supports application-consistent backup of MSSQL databases with the recovery options from instance to table level. Recently we launched the MySQL application consistent backup Application consistency or transaction consistent backups of the Microsoft centric applications like ADDS ( …

December 27, 2019

Protect your WordPress website hosted in Amazon EC2

All websites available on the internet are vulnerable to hacking attempts, DDOS attack, Data loss, This could happen to WordPress websites as well. WordPress has core files, the wp-content folder where the theme, plugin and the user uploaded …

November 6, 2019

Migrate SQL Server 2012 Database to SQL Server 2019

After the availability of SQL Server 2019 and Windows Server 2019, I decided to play around with that in my lab. Microsoft, owing to the new demands and other technological advancements in the software industry, has released the …

November 3, 2019

Adding MySQL slave to existing master-slave setup

In this blog, I will walk you over on how to add a new slave to existing Master-Slave replicated databases.  The typical process will be Deploy a new server with MySQL and configure the slave Backup database on …

October 31, 2019

Protecting your Microsoft SQL Server databases

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most popular enterprise databases, a lot of enterprises run MS SQL Server for their mission-critical applications SQL Server database management engine is fast and stable, available on both Linux and Windows …

October 30, 2019

Nimesa got featured in Tech-30 Startup list in the Techsparks 2019 event conducted by Yourstory.

Nimesa, today announced it got featured in Tech-30 Startup list in the Techsparks 2019 event YourStory’s Tech30 companies list is an annual selection of 30 carefully curated and disruptive tech-based startups that we believe will shape the new …

October 17, 2019

Data Protection of Containers

Enterprise has started using containers for mission-critical application workloads. As per the IDC survey, 55 percent of IT leaders say they have deployed containers on-premises.  Kubernetes(k8) has made management and deployment of containers easier. Enterprises have started using …

October 3, 2019

Ansible – In a Nutshell

Ansible is an open-source automation platform. It is simple to set up, efficient and powerful. Key use cases supported are as follows. Application Deployment Configuration Management Automation of Tasks IT orchestration It is available for free and open-source. …

September 15, 2019

Manage RDS instance using Nimesa

In our previous blog, we saw deployment considerations for Databases on EC2 instance vs RDS. In this blog, we will see how Nimesa can be used to protect your RDS databases as well as manage cost for RDS …

September 9, 2019

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – GCP Deployment Manager

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management of infrastructure (computing networks, virtual machines, the configuration of services, and connection topology) in a descriptive model, using version used in DevOps for source code. Infrastructure as Code evolved to solve the problem of environmental challenges and drift …

September 8, 2019

MySQL application consistent backup using pre and post script with Nimesa Data Protection

In recent posts, we have discussed adding your AWS account to Nimesa to do the data protection. In this post, we will discuss application-consistent backups of your MySQL on EC2 instance. To know to install MySQL Server on …

August 31, 2019

Register AWS Account access key and secret with Nimesa

In my previous post, we discussed the creation of IAM user and the privilege required to protect your AWS EC2 instances. In this post, we will discuss to register and manage the AWS account with Nimesa. Open the …

August 27, 2019

SQL DB Data Corruption – Insights & Detection

What is “Data Corruption”? Data corruption is when data becomes unusable, unreadable or in some other way inaccessible to a user or application. It also occurs when a data entity or element or instance loses its base integrity …

August 23, 2019

Create an IAM user to register with Nimesa cloud data protection software

In my previous post, I have explained how to deploy Nimesa cloud data protection software in your AWS account. In this post, will discuss on the permission required to protect EC2 Instance and RDS Instance. Then how to …

August 21, 2019

Deploy Nimesa Cloud data protection for AWS from AWS Marketplace

In the recent posts, I shared about taking backup and restore of database and also discussed some of the issues I have seen in the customer environment and how I fixed those in Nimesa Software Nimesa uses cloud-native …

August 21, 2019

Backup and Recovery Term – RPO and RTO

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are two of the most important parameters of the disaster recovery (DR) or data protection planning. These are the objectives/decision points for choosing the optimal backup software. Recovery Point …

August 21, 2019

Oracle LRU & MRU Algorithm – Laymen’s Perspective

Definition:- LRU stands for ‘least recently used’. It is a computer algorithm used to manage the cache area which stores data in the memory. When a cache becomes full and you need space for new data. Hence you will …

August 21, 2019

MongoDB Consistent Backups

Who uses MongoDB? Based on the online resource* there are 37,658 Companies using MongoDB, MongoDB is most often used by companies with 10-50 employees and 1M-10M dollars in revenue, and the market share is about 5.0% and also …

August 21, 2019

Data Protection Software Key Requirements

There Top Requirements for Data Protection Software: Entreprise’s are moving from the traditional CapEx model to OpEx model. As a result enterprise applications are getting migrated to cloud or SaaS solutions. There is a need for a newer …

August 19, 2019

RDS vs EC2 Instance

Most important decision when migrating databases to AWS is to decide on running the Database in RDS (DBasS) or in an EC2 Instance (IaaS). In this article, we will see the factors that influence the decision. About RDS: …

August 13, 2019

Protecting Oracle Database installed in EC2 instance – Part 2

In the previous blog, we saw how to protect ORACLE databases installed in the EC2 instance. In this blog, we go over how to recover the database from the EBS snapshots. We will be using Nimesa’s volume mount …

July 30, 2019

Protecting Oracle Database deployed on EC2 Instance- Part I

ORACLE server is one of the key components in the data center. It is critical to protecting the database on a periodic basis. Backup and recovery refer to the process of backing up data in case of a …

April 5, 2019

Protecting the SQL Database deployed on EC2 instance

SQL server is one of the key components in the data center. Admins take different backup strategy based on the criticality of the database and the rate of change data. Below are the different types of backups of …

February 25, 2019

Identifying and managing underutilized (Idle Instance) EC2 instances

Every minute is a cost when using cloud services. Users create EC2 instances for test and development but they are never deleted. To identify Idle instance organizations needs tools that can help them identify and also have insight …

February 25, 2019

Manage AWS Cost Using Nimesa

To manage cost the first approach organization take is to power on/off the resources in non-business hours. It is not difficult to write a simple schedule to power on/off the resources at a specific time. There are many …

August 2, 2018

Disaster Recovery Plan

The myth about the Disaster Recovery Plan: My business is still growing, I don’t need a Disaster Recovery solution yet. Moreover, I already do backups regularly The disaster recovery plan is not matter of how big is your …

July 31, 2018

Automate Backup of EC2 instances using AWS snapshots

AWS provides the capability to take the snapshot of EBS volumes, but there is some manual effort involved in the process which can result in human error. First approach companies take is to automate using scripts. With ever-growing …

July 30, 2018

Restore AWS EC2 instance using Nimesa

In the previous blog, we saw how to use Nimesa to protect the data at a periodic interval that meets organizations SLA needs. Protecting the environment is just one part of the story, a company needs a different …

July 24, 2018

Change EC2 instance type with minimal downtime

There are many reasons where you would like to change the instance type.  Some of the scenarios are like a load to the system is high and you would like to increase size for performance and there are …

July 13, 2018

Automating DR tasks using Nimesa

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a process that helps you prepare for any kind of unwanted disaster. Cloud platforms like AWS are well suited to meet your DR needs. The organization needs a DR plan that could be periodically …

July 12, 2018

Recover your datacenter instantly from Ransomware attack (ofcourse without paying)

Recently, An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations. when attackers breached the network of Hancock Health, a regional hospital in the city of …

June 12, 2018