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Whose Cloud Is It Anyway?

'Where does our backup data live' used to be a box-ticking question. Between EU proposals to restrict US cloud providers, unsettling French Senate testimony, and growing scrutiny of the US CLOUD Act, it isn't anymore. We unpack what has genuinely changed in EU and UK data law from what's simply doing the rounds on LinkedIn.

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Data Sovereignty and UK Cloud Act

Post Quantum Encryption for HNDL threats

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When No Ransom Note Arrives: Quiet Breaches may be an Early Warning for Post-Quantum Risk

A breach with no ransom note isn't necessarily a breach that failed. We look at a recent case of financial data theft with no obvious monetisation, and why it fits the pattern of Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later activity.

IBM Power11 S1112 Tower format server

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IBM Power S1112: Where It Fits If You’re Still Running Power8 or Power9

The S1112 is a well-specified, honestly-positioned entry point into Power11 for single-socket branch, retail, and distribution deployments, and for straightforward IBM i P05-tier upgrades.

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Backed up is not the same as understood: What Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti AI means for your data

Veeam has completed its acquisition of Securiti AI, bringing data security posture management, privacy and AI governance into the same platform family as backup and recovery. Here is a measured look at what that actually means for mid-market IT teams - and how it fits alongside Veeam Backup & Replication, Cloud Connect and Covenco's data protection platform.

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Experience Day 2026: The questions IT leaders are asking about resilience

IT leaders joined Covenco together with Veeam, LRQA, Quantropi and partners at Stratton Court Barn, near Bicester to examine Data Resiliency, Ransomware Recovery, AI-driven Threats and Quantum Readiness on 2nd July 2026.

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[FREE GUIDE] Why having Backups is no longer enough: What regulators now demand

Backups are not the same as recovery. Here is what UK regulators, cyber insurers, and auditors now expect IT Directors to evidence, and what a defensible backup and recovery strategy actually looks like.

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Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: the quantum threat your security team cannot afford to ignore

Your encrypted data is being stolen right now. Not to read today. To decrypt later. Harvest Now, Decrypt Later, HNDL, is an active operation targeting UK financial services, healthcare, legal, and public sector organisations. Here is what it is, why legacy systems make it worse, and what a practical response looks like.

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IBM FlashSystem 5600 vs 5300: What Has Actually Changed?

Covenco unboxes the IBM FlashSystem 5600 live. FCM5 drives, 2.6M IOPS, ransomware detection in under 60 seconds. Here is what changed from the 5300 and why it matters.

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Why enterprise hardware costs and lead times are not coming down any time soon

Enterprise hardware costs and lead times are at levels not seen in a generation. This article explains the structural causes behind the 2026 supply squeeze, why waiting until 2027 is unlikely to bring relief, and how refurbished hardware and third-party maintenance can keep your infrastructure on track without waiting for the primary supply chain to recover.

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Cloud Storage is not a Recovery Plan. Here is the difference that matters

Most organisations running backups in the cloud have storage. What they often do not have is a tested recovery capability with a service level attached to it. This piece explains the difference, and why that gap is now one of the most exploited weaknesses in UK IT resilience.

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