With twenty years of backup experience, you might presume that my own personal backups might be flawless and in triplicate. And for my professional workstation, it actually is. But admittedly, for the rest of my data, such as those invaluable family photos, personal data and other stuff – it admittedly isn’t as well or frequently [...]
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“All we can afford is tape.” “We’re small – so we can’t afford enterprise stuff” “We only have 40 people. If we have to recreate something, it isn’t too bad“ Respectfully, none of these are reasons — they are all excuses — and they are mostly inaccurate. The US Dept. of Labor once surveyed what [...] [Excerpt from my book, Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers – www.DataProtectionBible.com] Chapter 2, Data Protection by the Numbers (click here to download Chapter 2) covers among other things ROI and TCO. One of the formulas discussed is the “Cost of Downtime”:
Sometimes, the best thing that can happen when you present [...] [originally posted on my ESG blog at TechnicalOptimist.com] The best part of BC/DR planning is not being prepared for your eventual disaster — its what you get before hand. In my earlier post, I talked about the 10 professional practices of Business Continuity Planning. Practices 2 and 3 include "Risk Evaluation and Control" and "Business [...] [originally posted on my ESG blog – TechnicalOptimist.com] It wasn’t that many years ago that ‘Disaster Recovery’ was a key buzz word for IT. Somewhere along the way, it became ‘Business Continuity’. Now days, it is simply a feature of your backup or storage solution. Or is it? First, let’s talk through the layers from [...] Every week, during the Spring and Summer, my lawn gets mowed. Specifically, it happens every Thursday morning, while I am working. Some guys come by my home and pick up the check from my wife, and then my lawn gets magically gets mowed. It’s not that I particularly mind mowing the lawn or whether it [...] Last week, I saw the latest disclosure on what is still too common – “backup tapes are lost and the amount of disclosure is under investigation” . This time, it was 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients – click to read original article. The slightly abridged version is: The lost data was stored on [...] If you find yourself on mailing lists from backup vendors, channel partners and media portals (or watch twitter for backup/storage topics) … then you have likely seen advertisements like: Five Easy Steps to Disaster Recovery Don’t miss this revolutionary, exciting, innovative, and informational … Yada yada yada, blah blah … Those webcasts/whitepapers aren’t bad … [...] |
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