Birds and Butterflies Migrate, MSPs Validate and Plan
Recent updates from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and CIS Controls (Center for Internet Security), organizations delivering Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) are now required to publish routine validation drills. As the Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) landscape continues to shift—driven by major acquisitions and rapid modernization—forward-thinking Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are prioritizing not only the validation and restoration of their current BDR platforms but also evaluating opportunities to migrate customer data into more resilient, modern, and cost-efficient environments.
Key Challenges for MSPs
MSPs face two challenges:
- Achieving compliance with NIST 2.0 and CIS Controls.
- Breaking free from vendor lock-ins, caused by restrictive retention policies that make it difficult to move customer data to modern platforms.
A Proven Partnership for Validation and Migration
Storage Guardian has partnered with Unimatrix Solutions for more than 15 years, running validation exercises, disaster recovery drills, and supporting strategic decisions around data migration to modernized BDR platforms. By leveraging the Storage Guardian DR Runbook, we help ensure CIS compliance while enabling partners to assess the feasibility and timelines for moving data out of legacy environments—often a complex task due to lengthy retention and vendor constraints.
“Storage Guardian’s approach has consistently enabled us to validate and strategize around modern BDR adoption, even across challenging retention policies.” – Domenic Galloro, Unimatrix Solutions
2026: The Year to Prioritize DR Validation and Modernization
To align with NIST 2.0 Disaster Recovery requirements, Storage Guardian has developed secure covert communication capabilities that support partners in planning and validating their data before migrating between BDR platforms.
As compliance standards evolve and modernization accelerates, 2026 will be a pivotal year to strengthen your validation strategy, assess your migration readiness, and ensure your BDR platform aligns with NIST 2.0, CIS Controls, and your long-term resilience goals.
Schedule an introductory call to explore how Storage Guardian can support your validation and modernization roadmap. Storage Guardian is a ConnectWise Invent certified integrator dedicated to providing low-cost, automated validation tools built on industry best practices. If you're not ready for a call yet, visit our Marketplace page to learn more about our ConnectWise PSA™ integration.
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