Backup

While definitely necessary, making and maintaining disaster recovery (DR) plans is definitely not one of the favorite tasks for IT personnel. DR planning is complex, time-consuming, and it involves the resources of a number of both IT and non-IT related personnel. In addition, implementing DR plans isn’t cheap.

Backing up your data can be an easy process but it’s important to not get caught up in only taking the easy route too.

The ability to easily restore critical data and applications always comes down to the level of priority organizations give to their backup and recovery architectures. The low-hanging fruit from a datacenter perspective is protecting virtual machines.

Protecting core infrastructure components like SQL Server is certainly one of the database professional first priorities. However, for those businesses still running SQL Server 2008/R2, that’s become a problem.

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and as many cities have recently learned, if you don’t have an air-gapped backup, you may not be protected.

While there’s no doubt that the use of the cloud and containers are rapidly growing, the reality is that server virtualization is and will remain the core technology for running the vast majority of enterprise applications in the foreseeable future.

Disaster recovery (DR) methods for protecting today’s IT infrastructure and data are going through a period of substantial change. Today businesses need to do more than protect against service failures and traditional downtime.

Even though February was a shorter month, there were still a number of significant Azure announcements that you should know about.

When it comes to picking a cloud vendor, putting all your eggs in one basket might be the easiest option, but it’s not a best practice.

This post is sponsored by Druva’s Office 365 backup solution. There’s no doubt that Office 365 is the most popular cloud services today. Microsoft launched Office 365 back in June 2011 and it has become a popular choice for the day-to-day work of both businesses and consumers alike. Office 365 is full-featured, easy to access,…