The backup plan: how to craft the bespoke backup and recovery solution your organisation needs
"The backup of data remains a basic IT safety net for any large organisation, but long gone are the days when traditional backup methods can be put in place to support recovery alone, then forgotten about.
For many companies, the focus is now shifting from simple recovery and restore to all-singing and all-dancing suites that form the bedrock of their resilience and business continuity strategies. A lot of these companies will scrap their traditional backup and recovery solutions by 2016 in favour of products that can perform a host of other functions such as archiving, replication, and creation of test data using a minimal number of copies.
But with all this added functionality, it is easy for enterprises to get bogged down with the costs and basic maintenance involved with in-house backup and disaster recovery. As organisations move from tape to disk to cloud technologies, the rise of cost-effective virtualised solutions is starting to eclipse backup just as it has most of the storage world, as Oscar Arean, technical operations manager at disaster recovery specialist Databarracks, explains..."