Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Disk is great for backups and speedy recoveries, and should play a key role in a DR plan, but tape is still the best choice for data protection and retention. The calendar may read 2013, but I still hear IT professionals and vendors assert that disk-based storage is always best when it comes to protecting … Read more
BE AWARE that today’s laptop and mobile devices have one less recovery option than they used to. This particular customer service announcement is targeted mostly at business executives and the IT professionals who support them. - Those folks presume that device theft never happens and that they are too responsible to ever leave their … Read more
Does Virtualization + Cloud = BC/DR? YES! In June 2013, ESG published its “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In September, ESG published its “Data Protection-as-a-Service Trends” report. And for many people, when you virtualize your infrastructure (so that the servers are portable) and then you provide a cost-effective secondary location (the cloud) … … Read more
While most IT Pro’s think about ‘Data Protection’ as the proactive activities, technologies and policies for assuring recovery and resiliency, a lot of folks forget to look for the architectural and cultural SPOF’s that can hinder production and recovery. Here is a non-DP SPOF example that I am currently struggling with – my home-office’s Internet … Read more
These days, you can’t have a discussion on modernizing your IT infrastructure without talking about “cloud” … but when it comes to Data Protection, there isn’t just one kind of Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS). In fact, most folks are considering up to three different DPaaS capability sets, including: - BaaS – Backup … Read more