Share Your Backup and Recovery Stories

Share Your Backup & Recovery Stories

Among the strongest educational resources we have is one another. There’s invaluable benefit to be found in the experiences we share as professionals. Who’s had the best success with which product? What are the gotchas I should know about that might not jump off the page in the documentation? Who has horror stories to share of weekends at work during an outage? Of flooded data centers? Or even worse – data lost forever?

It may not be the most fun to relive data center disasters – but there’s tremendous value to be found in the experience. Fortunately, many of you have already begun to share your stories with the community-at-large. You do so every day in forums and user groups around the web and around the world. We feel particularly lucky that many of you have started to share your stories with us, too. You can find the success stories of many of our customers in the Resources section of our site.

We’d love to hear from more of you though. Tell us about the impact of your last outage. How long did it take to get back online? How much data was lost? What are you going to do to ensure it doesn’t happen again? Send us an e-mail at leadgeek@appassure.com or find us on Twitter anytime. We’ll help you share your story, so that others can benefit from your experience. And as a bonus, we’ll give away a Backup Hero t-shirt to the first 25 people to respond with their backup & recovery horror stories.

Industry News

Breaking Point: 2010 State Of Enterprise Storage Survey
Share some insights from the InformationWeek Analytics 2010 State of Enterprise Storage Survey of 331 business technology professionals, which reveals an alarming state of affairs: When asked about their top storage concerns, nearly half of respondents say they have insufficient resources for critical applications.

File-level vs. block-level deduplication
Many different data backup vendors provide data deduplication services, so expect to find subtle differences in how both file-level deduplication and block-level deduplication are implemented.

Secure data backup strategies for the enterprise: A backup security tutorial
Data backup security is a rapidly evolving — if not rapidly adopted — piece of the enterprise data storage world. It largely revolves around encryption, and has spread in the past few years from tape to host to disk, and is now an issue for the young cloud storage market. However, despite some highly publicized breaches involving lost unencrypted tapes a few years back– with much of that publicity generated by data security vendors — encryption has been slow to catch on among enterprise data storage pros.

Thin-Provisioning: Virtualization or Storage System?
Thin-provisioning is a mechanism that ensures that only disk space required – as opposed to what is allocated – is used in virtual machines. However, a debate is on concerning whether the virtual machine environment itself, or the storage system it depends on, is a better host of thin provisioning functionality.

Virtualization storage tutorial: Storage for virtual environments
In this virtualization storage tutorial, you’ll learn all about the different factors to consider when choosing storage for virtual environments. The performance, scalability, energy efficiency and disaster recovery benefits of a virtualization storage platform are all key factors to consider when deciding if it’s the right fit for your organization.

News from AppAssure

A 70 TB tape cartridge: too much, too late?
While I’ll admit that the geek in me loves the idea of any single piece of storage medium that can store 70TB of compressed data, the fact that it’s a magnetic tape constrains its use pretty dramatically. I could see how it may have its use for purposes such as long-term email and file archiving, but practically speaking, I think that’s probably the best case scenario.

Storage and Network Convergence
I’ll be honest – I love stories about technology convergence. At first blush, it seems like a fairly dull topic, but take a step back and you realize that the most exciting things in technology happen when two different pieces of technology come together (think computers and cell phones, just as one example; television and the Internet as another).

Backup 2.0 Hero: Brooks Betts – Lincoln County Healthcare
Join Brooks Betts, VP of Information Systems at Lincoln Health Care, as he shares his experiences
adopting a Backup 2.0 approach.

Finally this week, while traditional Exchange security may have taken a backseat to e-discovery and email retention lately, the traditional risks certainly haven’t disappeared. Be sure to read up on nine Exchange Server risks you shouldn’t overlook.

Have a great week,

-Josh

PS – I also want to let you know about a new offer on our website! We’ve just added the ability for you to request a live demonstration of AppAssure Backup & Replication from one of AppAssure’s highly-trained Backup 2.0 specialists. To see how AppAssure Backup & Replication can restore a single file or an entire server in minutes, be sure to request your free live demonstration today.