Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Disaster recovery as a service, or cloud-based disaster recovery (DR), makes testing a DR plan too easy to overlook — the opposite of traditional self-managed BC/DR facilities. One of the primary deterrents to most business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans is that recurring testing must occur to ensure preparedness for when calamity strikes as well as … Read more
When you really boil down the core of IT — its to deliver the services and access to data that the business requires. That includes understanding the needs of the business, its dependencies on things like its data, and then ensuring the availability of that data. "Availability" can be achieved in two ways = Resilience … Read more
It seems that every time that a new major IT platform is delivered, backing it up is an afterthought – often exacerbated by the fact that the platform vendor didn’t create the APIs or plumbing to enable a backup ecosystem. Each time, there is a gap where the legacy folks aren’t able to adapt quickly … Read more
To the “New AA” — please stop misrepresenting yourself as a single airline with US Airlines. You are not conducting yourself as a single airline, and the result is that I won’t see my kids this evening. Your signage says “We’re bringing you greater schedule options ” but that isn’t entirely true. I booked an … Read more
We’re well past the notion that backup and archive aren’t the same thing, explains columnist Jason Buffington, but they may still leverage the same technologies. We’re in what I believe is the third-wave of understanding the relationships between backups and archives. In a blog post I wrote last year, I suggested data protection as the appropriate … Read more