Centralized Backup ... aka Jason's Blog
Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Why does copy data management matter? Because you need better data protection than you have and you can’t afford to move forward with your current protection based on how the business is scaling. Operationally, production storage is growing at approximately 40% annually, as is secondary protection storage. Sure, you get some deduplication benefits, but the … Read more
Organizations of all sizes have been looking for better ways to protect their data. In some cases, they do so because existing backup solutions are broken, antiquated, cumbersome or not scaling to support the production environment adequately. In other cases, an organization is simply trying to improve what it’s doing incrementally, based on economic considerations … Read more
Disaster recovery planning can mean a lot of different things and that’s a key point to remember; your organization’s DR plan should be tailored to its specific needs. In other words, an IT DR plan for a middle school will be very different from that of a hospital. This Drill Down offers information for organizations … Read more
Perhaps one of the least-expected IT revolutions is the decentralization of data among endpoint devices. After decades of IT delivering consolidated infrastructure platforms (servers), data is becoming increasingly distributed as end users demand increasing flexibility in the devices that they use in their workplace. “Endpoint” should not be confused with “BYOD,” as today’s endpoint devices … Read more
It is impossible to have an IT modernization discussion that doesn’t include the cloud, but the details beyond that will vary greatly: Some will replace their legacy backup product with a backup service. Some should supplement their current backup product with cloud storage. Some ought to add a cloud-based DR capability to their on-premises backup … Read more