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In a world where digital disruption is constant and threats are evolving, protecting your data is non-negotiable. From ransomware and accidental deletion to natural disasters and geopolitical instability, the risks are real and growing. That’s why it’s essential for Australian organisations to rethink data resilience and turn to cloud-based protection that’s built to withstand the unexpected.
At Datacom, we help you safeguard your most valuable digital assets with cloud backup solutions that are secure, compliant, and designed for fast recovery. Backed by local expertise and deep cloud capability, we tailor protection to your business needs.
Our services support business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) across on‑premises, cloud and SaaS workloads, so you can recover quickly from outages, cyber incidents or accidental deletion.
Protect critical applications, databases and unstructured data wherever they reside – in your data centres, public cloud or SaaS platforms.
Apply policy‑driven backup, retention and encryption to meet regulatory and audit requirements.
Use immutable storage options that prevent backups from being altered or deleted, strengthening your defence against ransomware.
Once written, your data can’t be altered or deleted — even by ransomware. Immutable storage provides secure, tamper-proof backup that acts as your last line of defence.
We help you define your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) based on what your business can tolerate. We then align your backup and recovery strategy to meet those targets, removing any guesswork.
With on-shore storage options, you can meet compliance requirements and make sure your backups stay local helping you meet privacy and regulatory requirements with confidence.
We offer automated disaster recovery testing and coordination so you can simulate outages and confirm your systems recover exactly as expected.
Our pricing is transparent and predictable, with no unexpected egress fees giving you control over your cloud costs, especially when you need to restore your data.
Datacom’s cloud backup services are engineered for organisational resilience, our experts help evaluate your current setup by identifying any gaps and opportunities in your data protection.
Datacom’s data protection services work alongside our cloud backup and cloud security teams to provide end‑to‑end protection for your workloads and data.
From ransomware to hardware failure, we protect your critical data with immutable backups, automated recovery, and geographically redundant storage across Australia and New Zealand. Maintain business continuity and compliance with backup infrastructure that’s always available, always recoverable and always local.
For Australian organisations, Datacom’s data protection services are underpinned by highly secure, certified data centres and sovereign cloud capabilities across Australia and New Zealand, supporting compliance, data‑residency needs and consistent risk assurance for regulated industries.
DATACOM'S SIXTH ANNUAL CLOUD REPORT
Datacom’s 2025 Cloud and Infrastructure Report draws on primary research from more than 500 organisations across Australia exploring whether cloud is delivering returns for organisations - and what is needed to build greater digital resilience.
This is our sixth annual cloud report, undertaken with our research partner Tech Research Asia, and is one of the largest longitudinal studies of cloud adoption in Australasia.
Immutable storage means your backup files can’t be changed or deleted for a set period. Even if ransomware gets into your systems, it can’t touch your backups.
RPO is how much data you can afford to lose (measured in time), and RTO is how quickly you need to recover. We help you define and meet both.
Yes. We offer sovereign data residency options so your backups stay on-shore and compliant with local laws.
We recommend testing at least quarterly. Our platform makes it easy to run automated tests without disrupting your operations.
No. Unlike some hyperscale cloud providers, we don’t charge extra to access your own data. What you see is what you pay.
Enterprise data protection is the end‑to‑end strategy, processes and technologies an organisation uses to keep its critical data secure, accurate and recoverable across its entire lifecycle. It covers how data is backed up, stored, accessed and recovered, so that information remains confidential, intact and available when needed—even during outages, cyber incidents or human error.
For Australian organisations, enterprise data protection also means aligning with local regulatory, privacy and sovereignty requirements while supporting modern workloads across on‑premises, cloud and SaaS platforms.
The best starting point is to treat cloud data protection as part of a broader enterprise data protection and business continuity strategy rather than a standalone backup tool. Australian organisations should begin by classifying data (by criticality, sensitivity and regulatory obligations), mapping where it lives across on‑premises, cloud and SaaS, and defining recovery‑time and recovery‑point objectives (RTO/RPO) for different tiers of data and applications.
From there, a strong strategy typically includes:
A unified data protection platform that can protect workloads across multiple clouds and environments, with policy‑based backup, retention and encryption.
Clear roles and runbooks covering backup, recovery, testing and escalation, aligned with cloud security controls and incident‑response processes.
Use of immutable backups and off‑site copies to strengthen resilience against ransomware and other cyber threats.
Common backup strategies include full, incremental and differential backups, often combined in a schedule.
Full backups create a complete copy of selected data or systems and are simple to restore but require more time and storage. They are typically used for small environments, initial baselines or periodic “anchor” points in larger organisations.
Incremental backups capture only changes since the last backup of any type, reducing backup time and storage but requiring multiple restore steps. They suit larger environments or organisations with narrow backup windows that need frequent protection.
Differential backups capture changes since the last full backup, striking a balance between backup time and restore simplicity. They are often chosen where faster restores are more important than minimising backup storage.
Many enterprises then apply a 3‑2‑1‑style rule on top of these schedules, keeping multiple copies of data on different media with at least one off‑site copy, and increasingly adding an immutable or air‑gapped backup to guard against ransomware. In practice, smaller organisations may start with a managed cloud backup service based mainly on full and incremental backups, while larger or highly regulated organisations typically combine all three approaches within a policy‑driven enterprise backup and recovery strategy.
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