It’s time to take backup of virtual environments seriously.
While virtualization makes almost everything easier in the data center, one area that’s fallen behind is backup. In fact, in 2011, Symantec identified customers taking shortcuts to protecting information in physical and virtual environments, as if virtual systems were less important and companies were willing to lose them.
That could mean some major failures in data center recovery in the months and years ahead, if something doesn’t change.
Here are some simple steps organizations can take to centralize backup and recovery of physical and virtual server environments: [Read more...]
The explosive growth in data and increased complexity are some of the biggest challenges in storage management today. But the old ways of buying and managing storage no longer cut it. Resource constraints from physical storage resources to human resources make it even more vital for organizations to optimize and simplify their infrastructure. Unaddressed and unchecked, data growth will only become a bigger problem over time.
You know its crunch time at work. Everyone has got important deadlines to meet and important people to impress. In the IT department, as always, you’ve invested your time making sure that your backup windows are completed quickly and efficiently every two hours. You’re about to begin the next backup when your phone rings and on the other end is a frantic co-worker who has lost a presentation that needs to be ready in the next hour. Unfortunately for your coworker all his/her work has been lost because you hadn’t started the next backup. Unfortunately for you, you now have the job of informing your coworker that you’re unable to recover their data. This is a terrible situation that is tough but, avoidable.
Backup and recovery is an integral element of any business. Your employee’s time is invaluable and the work that they invest themselves in should not be exposed to potential loss due to long backup windows. And, as unstructured data continues to increase backup windows and data loss becomes a larger issue for businesses every year it’s necessary to assess how vulnerable you are. Gartner estimates that the average company experiences 87 hours of unscheduled down time per year. There is however, one company that’s fighting back decreasing backup windows to as little as 15 minutes!
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