Enable vale for blog posts (#1754)
## Description Prevent errors in blog posts creeping throught ## Type of change - [x] 🐛 Bugfix - [x] 🗺️ Documentation
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dev: genclidocs
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noclidev:
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$(WEBC) npm start -- --host 0.0.0.0
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VALE_TARGET ?= docs README.md
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VALE_TARGET ?= docs README.md blog
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check: genclidocs
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$(WEBC) vale $(VALE_TARGET)
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@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ image: ./images/office_desk.jpg
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Have you had it with Google sheets? So have I. Excel is my home. It’s where I write all my best formulae. And what
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Have you had it with Google sheets? Me too! Excel is my home. It’s where I write all my best formulae. And what
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about PowerPoint? The way it just finds stock photos for you? The automatic ‘alternative designs for this slide’
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button? It’s too good. I can’t give up Microsoft 365.
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If you did some work today, there’s a very good chance you opened a Microsoft tool. M365 is used by
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If you did some work today, there’s a good chance you opened a Microsoft tool. M365 is used by
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[more than a million](https://www.statista.com/statistics/983321/worldwide-office-365-user-numbers-by-country/)
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companies worldwide, and nearly 880,000 companies in the U.S. use the software suite. But with that widespread usage
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comes risk, business-critical data is at risk of loss or corruption, if not securely backed up and protected.
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@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ comes risk, business-critical data is at risk of loss or corruption, if not secu
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A couple of years back I took the time to get the AWS ‘baby cert,’ their first certification. The focus of the
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material surprised me, along with learning about the most popular AWS products and their benefits, you had to learn
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cold all the things that AWS will not do for you. AWS won’t alert you to poor performance on your applications. It
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cold all the things that AWS won't do for you. AWS won’t alert you to poor performance on your applications. It
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won’t automatically scale down your instances. And while AWS and the other public cloud providers completely meet their
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promised SLA, they do not promise to deliver the backups that you expect them to deliver.
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promised SLA, they don't promise to deliver the backups that you expect them to deliver.
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“I accidentally deleted the customer DB,” isn’t a situation that public cloud companies are built to prevent or
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ameliorate. Fundamentally, on all public clouds, backups are a shared responsibility between administrator and service.
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@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ Let’s talk about the stats on data loss:
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Data loss can result from accidental or intentional deletion, cyber-attacks and malware, a poorly executed migration,
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or the cancellation of a software license, among other reasons. For example,
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[40% – 2 out of 5 servers](https://www.veeam.com/blog/data-loss-2022.html) – had at least one or more outages over the
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past 12 months. And cybercrime is on a continual rise – the average number of data breaches and cyberattacks were
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[2 out of 5 servers](https://www.veeam.com/blog/data-loss-2022.html) had at least one or more outages over the
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past 12 months. And cybercrime is on a continual rise; the average number of data breaches and cyberattacks were
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[up 15.1% in 2021](https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckbrooks/2022/06/03/alarming-cyber-statistics-for-mid-year-2022-that-you-need-to-know/?sh=642204357864),
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compared with the previous year. As of 2022, the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. was $9.44 million.
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## Why Corso?
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<!-- vale alex.Condescending = NO -->
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Corso is purpose-built for protection of your M365 organization account (this tool doesn’t work with consumer accounts)
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with easy-to-use comprehensive backup and restore workflows that reduce backup time and administrative overhead,
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improve time-to-recovery, and replace unreliable scripts or workarounds. It enables high-throughput, high-tolerance
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object storage system: AWS S3 (including Glacier Instant Access), Google Cloud Storage and Backblaze. (Azure Blob
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support is coming soon).
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<!-- vale alex.Condescending = YES -->
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Corso’s secure backup protects against accidental data loss, service provider downtime and malicious threats, including
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ransomware attacks. Plus, a robust user community provides a venue for admins to share and learn about data protection
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and find best practices for how to securely configure their M365 environments. As a member of the community, you’ll
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@ -69,19 +73,23 @@ have access to blogs, forums, and discussion, as well as updates on public and f
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## Low-Cost and Highly Secure
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Corso's source code is licensed under the Apache v2 open-source license. It’s open source, and it’s free – which makes
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Corso's source code is licensed under the Apache v2 open-source license. It’s open source, and it’s free, which makes
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it the perfect solution for cost-conscious teams. And that’s not where the cost savings end, Corso’s flexible retention
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policies and ability to compress and deduplicate data efficiently before sending it to storage, helps reduce storage
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costs, as well.
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## Interested in Trying Corso?
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<!-- vale Microsoft.Contractions = NO -->
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Corso, currently in alpha, provides a CLI-based tool for backups of your M365 data.
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[Follow the quickstart guide](../../docs/quickstart) to start protecting your business-critical M365 data in
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just a few minutes. Because Corso is currently in alpha, it should NOT be used in production.
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just a few minutes. Because Corso is currently in alpha, it should **NOT** be used in production.
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<!-- vale Microsoft.Contractions = YES -->
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Corso supports Microsoft 365 Exchange and OneDrive, with SharePoint and Teams support in active development. Coverage
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for more services, beyond M365, will expand based on the interests and needs of the community.
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So, your feedback is critical for our work on this tool! Please
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Your feedback is critical for our work on this tool! Please
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[tell us what you think of Corso](https://discord.gg/63DTTSnuhT).
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you’ll need to [join the M365 Developer Program](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program).
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This process is quite straightforward and fairly foolproof.
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> Note that when you go to set this up the first time, you may find that your Microsoft Account isn’t fully set up.
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> For example on my account I didn’t have a full name set on my profile. You’ll be prompted to add this info if needed
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@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Remember that you want to set up your sandbox when you’re ready to use it.
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The data is persistent but it’s wiped after 90 days.
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Also, you can’t just do whatever you want with this instance, it’s for development and testing purposes only.
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Commercial transactions, including purchasing paid services, are not supported.
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Commercial transactions, including purchasing paid services, aren't supported.
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## 4) Next steps
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@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ image: ./images/gian_tweet_backups.png
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I recently saw a tweet that really spoke to me:
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Gian was really addressing the chaotic situation with Twitter, but it feels much more broadly applicable in today’s climate.
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Given the increased role of automation in flagging “bad” accounts,
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there is now an ever-growing list of examples where imperfect AI-based systems misclassify perfectly legitimate accounts
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as bad. With no human-based recourse with most large companies, this has led to disastrous situations where
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Thankfully, the growth of easy-to-use SaaS services now allow you to, for the price of a coffee a month,
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A way out exists though! The growth of easy-to-use SaaS services now allow you to, for the price of a coffee a month,
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control and maintain not just your identity without risk but also all your personal and,
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for all you entrepreneurs, business data too. There’s a happy state, for individuals and teams, where you feel fully in
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control of your own identity. This makes you more resilient to systemic failures and changes in one platform’s policy.
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How do we achieve this ownership nirvana? The pieces are simple:
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How do we achieve this ownership nirvana? The pieces are straightforward:
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* Buy your own domain: Right now, `.me` is available for $3/year and `.online` is available for $0.99/year.
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OK, so the above might cost the equivalent of two coffees a month (or way less than an
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[expensive San Francisco coffee](https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/world-most-expensive-coffee-elida-geisha-natural-klatch-san-francisco/190823/))
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but you are suddenly in control of your identity, and this is not even tied to Microsoft 365 (more on that below!) even
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but you are suddenly in control of your identity, and this isn't even tied to Microsoft 365 (more on that below!) even
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though you are using it at this time. This is an amazing cost to value ratio given how important our data is.
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## Securing your own data means controlling your own backups
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Now, you might believe that your identity is tied to Microsoft’s control of your account but that is not true.
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Now, you might believe that your identity is tied to Microsoft’s control of your account but that's not true.
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Given that you own your domain, you can now take your data and email with you to any other provider.
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Having moved between Google Suite and Microsoft 365 in the past, this can be made seamless.
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[Microsoft’s shared responsibility model](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/shared-responsibility)
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where you are responsible for your data’s safety and Microsoft only promises to take care of the infrastructure.
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So, ensure you and your data is always protected, set up regular backups!
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Therefore, to ensure you and your data is always protected, set up regular backups!
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## How can Corso help?
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Backups can be complicated and, till recently, great backup solutions for Microsoft 365 might have been “enterprise”
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offerings that would cost many, many, MANY coffees a month. However, all of that is now behind us!
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offerings that would cost many, many, MANY coffees a month. However, all of that's now behind us!
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We recently introduced Corso, a free, secure, and 100% open-source tool to let you create a backup of all your data in
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your Microsoft subscription. Backups go to a cloud storage provider of your choice, giving you fine-grained control of
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your data and independence from your primary cloud provider. Data is also compressed and deduplicated to reduce cost
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(pennies a month with systems such as AWS Glacier Instant Access) and encrypted with user-provided keys so that no one
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can see your data and that it is safe against hackers and ransomware.
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can see your data and that it's safe against hackers and ransomware.
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src
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Powershell
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Backblaze
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deduplication
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benchmarked
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underperforms
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underperformed
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[Kk]opia
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Buzhash
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microbenchmarks
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zstd
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gzip
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pgzip
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goroutines
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microbenchmark
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deduplicated
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deduplicate
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vCPUs
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cybercrime
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cyberattacks
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