Macrium Software

Summer device deployment separates the IT teams that start the autumn term in control from those still re-imaging machines the night before Freshers’ Week. With student-facing and staff device estates stretching into the thousands across faculties, libraries, teaching spaces and labs, the margin for error during a refresh cycle is razor-thin. Getting every lecture theatre PC, lab workstation, and staff laptop to a consistent, validated state before teaching begins demands more than speed. It demands a repeatable process. ...

A single drive failure at 2 a.m. shouldn’t take a customer’s machine offline, yet that’s exactly what happens when OEMs treat RAID as a “raid backup strategy.” The confusion between fault tolerance and true data protection shows up fast in the field: extended service calls, missed SLAs, and frustrated end users who just need their system back online......

Most backup strategies look fine until a restore is needed. This guide focuses on how to evaluate backup software based on real recovery performance, not just successful backup jobs. It explains why factors like restore speed, environment constraints, and validation matter more than feature lists. You’ll also get a practical framework for selecting backup software that can reliably restore systems under real-world conditions....

This guide compares the best Acronis alternatives for 2026, evaluating seven backup and recovery tools across reliability, system footprint, licensing models, and real-world deployment scenarios. It highlights where each platform performs best, from OT and air-gapped environments to virtualized enterprise infrastructures, helping organizations choose the right solution for their backup strategy....

Looking to compare Macrium vs Acronis? Explore the differences in recovery reliability, system imaging, and support for air-gapped and operational environments....

Macrium research reveals that increased spending on cybersecurity in the manufacturing sector may be misplaced, and could lead to a false sense of security for manufacturing organizations. Findings suggest that while cyber threats remain a serious concern, they are only directly responsible for 5% of production outages, while the majority of downtime, costing up to $100,000 per hour, is caused by a widening “recovery gap” – the ability to recover from internal operational failures such as network errors, configuration loss or change, or planned maintenance gone wrong....

Manufacturing resilience rarely fails in the data centre. When things go wrong, the problem is generally where production happens. Yet Macrium’s recently published benchmark report, ‘State of Backup & Recovery in Manufacturing 2026’, highlights a stark imbalance at the heart of many resilience strategies. While most manufacturers have invested heavily in protecting IT workloads, only 54% of OT, ICS, and SCADA systems are backed up at all. The shortfall, the lack of backup protection on almost half of all manufacturing systems, is critical. OT systems are not peripheral. They run production lines, control physical processes, and determine whether operations continue or stop....

According to Macrium’s 2026 State of Backup & Recovery in Manufacturing report, true resilience isn’t measured by how many backups you have – it’s defined by how quickly you can recover when something goes wrong. The benchmark research behind the report shows a sobering gap between perception and reality. While most manufacturers believe they can restore critical systems within their planned timeframes, only 18% actually meet or exceed those targets. ...

Despite what we tend to imagine, the vulnerability most likely to compromise OT resilience is not backup. In the majority of organisations, backup is familiar, well-documented and well-monitored. Yet there is one aspect of recovery planning that even mature environments frequently fail to invest in properly. This is generally not through neglect, but because it is harder to schedule, riskier to test and far easier to put off ‘for tomorrow’....