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StarWind VTL: Boosting Immutability and Ransomware Protection in Your Own Datacenter

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:00:03 +0000

If you're an IT admin dealing with the constant threat of ransomware, you know how crucial it is to have a solid backup strategy that goes beyond the basics. Today, I want to dive into StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL), a solution that's all about making your backups immutable and ransomware-proof while keeping everything under […]

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Securing Your Backups On-Premises: How StarWind VTL Fits Perfectly with Veeam and the 3-2-1 Rule

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:51:54 +0000

If you evern woke up in a cold sweat from a nightmare where ransomware encrypts your entire backup chain or worse, your offsite copy gets hit too…. ? We can see it happen to good teams: a single breach wipes out weeks of recovery options because everything's in the cloud or on vulnerable storage. Hackers […]

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StarWind VTL: Fortifying Your Backup Infrastructure Against Ransomware

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:49:47 +0000

If you're thinking that your backup infrastructure is the best and unpenetrable, the truth is that you are actually never protected enough. It is only by adding an immutable repository, Virtual Tape Library (VTL) or both. Solution from StarWind can integrate into an existing backup infrastructure improving simply its resilience. Ransomware is the modern-day digital […]

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Protect your Backups with Wasabi Immutable Storage Buckets and StarWind VTL

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:49:24 +0000

Every year, we see the percentage of organizations' victims of ransomware rising. But we also see the rise in the rate of organizations paying ransoms. However, the percentage that lost data by refusing (or agreeing) to pay ransoms is also up. No matter what, ransomware is a new business model and it is here to […]

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StarWind VTL allows fight ransomware by setting up Virtual Tape Library stored on Disk drive

Vladan SEGET — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:24:53 +0000

For those of you who follow this blog long enough, you know that DR, backup, and recovery are topics that we cover quite often. With the ransomware war happening every single day, nobody wants to lose the battle. But are we prepared enough? One of the ultimate arms that you can get is multiple backup […]

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Veeam 3-2-1 Backup Rule Now With Starwind VTL

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 23 May 2017 05:49:22 +0000

A new integration between Veeam and StarWind VTL has been announced during VeeamOn at New Orleans. It's a new product from StarWind which is a special version of Virtual tape library (VTL) library for AWS, which allows organizations to use this virtual tape library as it was physical tape library. The backup policy stays in […]

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