From e02da9d108cedf837b2986542ee9bf2feb4e4f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niraj Tolia Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:02:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add blogs back to docs page (#1538) ## Description This also adds the blog post present on corsobackup.io to test changes ## Type of change - [x] :world_map: Documentation --- ...ouncement-free-backup-for-microsoft-365.md | 82 +++++++++++++++++++ docs/blog/authors.yml | 11 +++ docs/docusaurus.config.js | 9 +- 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 docs/blog/2022-11-16-corso-announcement-free-backup-for-microsoft-365.md create mode 100644 docs/blog/authors.yml diff --git a/docs/blog/2022-11-16-corso-announcement-free-backup-for-microsoft-365.md b/docs/blog/2022-11-16-corso-announcement-free-backup-for-microsoft-365.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8e9ce277b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/blog/2022-11-16-corso-announcement-free-backup-for-microsoft-365.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +--- +slug: corso-announcement-free-backup-for-microsoft-365 +title: "A Home to Call Your Own: The Need for Your Own Backups in IT" +authors: nica +tags: [corso, microsoft 365] +--- + +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 +about PowerPoint? The way it just finds stock photos for you? The automatic ‘alternative designs for this slide’ +button? It’s too good. I can’t give up Microsoft 365. + +If you did some work today, there’s a very good chance you opened a Microsoft tool. M365 is used by +[more than a million](https://www.statista.com/statistics/983321/worldwide-office-365-user-numbers-by-country/) +companies worldwide, and nearly 880,000 companies in the U.S. use the software suite. But with that widespread usage +comes risk, business-critical data is at risk of loss or corruption, if not securely backed up and protected. + +## The problem with built-in backups + +A couple of years back I took the time to get the AWS ‘baby cert,’ their first certification. The focus of the +material surprised me, along with learning about the most popular AWS products and their benefits, you had to learn +cold all the things that AWS will not do for you. AWS won’t alert you to poor performance on your applications. It +won’t automatically scale down your instances. And while AWS and the other public cloud providers completely meet their +promised SLA, they do not promise to deliver the backups that you expect them to deliver. + +“I accidentally deleted the customer DB,” isn’t a situation that public cloud companies are built to prevent or +ameliorate. Fundamentally, on all public clouds, backups are a shared responsibility between administrator and service. +For another example, see this from Microsoft's Diana Kelley: +["Driving data security is a shared responsibility, here’s how you can protect yourself"](https://www.statista.com/statistics/983321/worldwide-office-365-user-numbers-by-country/) + +## Data Loss Happens + +Let’s talk about the stats on data loss: + +Data loss can result from accidental or intentional deletion, cyber-attacks and malware, a poorly executed migration, +or the cancellation of a software license, among other reasons. For example, +[40% – 2 out of 5 servers](https://www.veeam.com/blog/data-loss-2022.html) – had at least one or more outages over the +past 12 months. And cybercrime is on a continual rise – the average number of data breaches and cyberattacks were +[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), +compared with the previous year. As of 2022, the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. was $9.44 million. + +## The limitations of backup tools + +While many backup and recovery solutions exist for M365 data, many lack comprehensive workflows, are hard to use and +implement, or are cost prohibitive. Yet reliable and regular backups are critical for ensuring your data is protected +and always available, in case of a breach, unexpected server failure or failed data migration. + +And that’s why we built Corso, a free and secure, 100% open-source solution that protects M365 data by securely and +efficiently backing up all business-critical data to object storage. + +## Why Corso? + +Corso is purpose-built for protection of your M365 organization account (this tool doesn’t work with consumer accounts) +with easy-to-use comprehensive backup and restore workflows that reduce backup time and administrative overhead, +improve time-to-recovery, and replace unreliable scripts or workarounds. It enables high-throughput, high-tolerance +backups that feature end-to-end encryption, deduplication, and compression. Plus, it’s compatible with any S3-compliant +object storage system: AWS S3 (including Glacier Instant Access), Google Cloud Storage and Backblaze. (Azure Blob +support is coming soon). + +Corso’s secure backup protects against accidental data loss, service provider downtime and malicious threats, including +ransomware attacks. Plus, a robust user community provides a venue for admins to share and learn about data protection +and find best practices for how to security configure their M365 environments. As a member of the community, you’ll +have access to blogs, forums, and discussion, as well as updates on public and feedback-driven development. +[Join the Corso community on Discord](https://discord.gg/63DTTSnuhT). + +## Low-Cost and Highly Secure + +Corso's source code is licensed under the Apache v2 open-source license. It’s open source, and it’s free – which makes +it the perfect solution for cost-conscious teams. And that’s not where the cost savings end, Corso’s flexible retention +policies and ability to compress and deduplicate data efficiently before sending it to storage, helps reduce storage +costs, as well. + +## Interested in Trying Corso? + +Corso is currently a tool in alpha to give you a CLI for backups of your M365 data. +[Follow the quickstart guide](https://docs.corsobackup.io/) to start protecting your business-critical M365 data in +just a few minutes. Because Corso is currently in alpha, it should NOT be used in production. + +Corso supports Microsoft 365 Exchange and OneDrive, with SharePoint and Teams support in active development. Coverage +for more services, beyond M365, will expand based on the interests and needs of the community. + +So, your feedback is critical for our work on this tool! Please +[tell us what you think of Corso](https://discord.gg/63DTTSnuhT). diff --git a/docs/blog/authors.yml b/docs/blog/authors.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b51afb67 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/blog/authors.yml @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +ntolia: + name: Niraj Tolia + title: Founder + url: https://github.com/ntolia + image_url: https://github.com/ntolia.png + +nica: + name: Nočnica Mellifera + title: Head of Developer Advocacy + url: https://github.com/serverless-mom + image_url: https://github.com/serverless-mom.png diff --git a/docs/docusaurus.config.js b/docs/docusaurus.config.js index 59715949a..525fa3769 100644 --- a/docs/docusaurus.config.js +++ b/docs/docusaurus.config.js @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ const config = { editUrl: 'https://github.com/alcionai/corso/tree/main/docs', }, - blog: false, + blog: { + showReadingTime: true, + }, sitemap: { ignorePatterns: ['/tags/**'], filename: 'sitemap.xml', @@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ const config = { position: 'left', label: 'Docs', }, + {to: '/blog', label: 'Blog', position: 'left'}, { href: 'https://github.com/alcionai/corso', label: 'GitHub', @@ -121,6 +124,10 @@ const config = { { title: 'More', items: [ + { + label: 'Blog', + to: '/blog', + }, { label: 'GitHub', href: 'https://github.com/alcionai/corso',