On the August 7 Virtualization Security podcast, we discussed how people in virtualization, security, compliance, data protection, storage, and networking—and everyone else in IT—should form their own organizational communities to improve overall communication and establish easy access to experts in those fields. This thought came out of a conversation I had with @jtroyer about whether …
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Data Protection: The Next Generation
Over the last few weeks, I have been taking a hard look at various data protection tools to determine if they meet the goals for the next generation of tools. Those goals are quite interesting, actually, the main goal being application-centric backup with increased visibility into our methodologies. We need to know not only how …
Disaster Recovery Communication
During a recent Twitter conversation about disaster recovery and business continuity testing, I began to consider how we communicate during a disaster. We do so not with normal communication methods, but more often than not with an interrupting form of communication—one in which constant requests for updates, criticisms, and outright demands for attention are directed …
The Face of the New Backup
Backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity have changed quite a bit over the years, and they will continue to change into the future as more capability, analytics, and functionality are added to the general family of data protection tools. As we launch ourselves into the clouds, we need to perhaps rethink how we do data …
Security Discussion: Backup and Scripting
During the last two Virtualization Security Podcasts, the panel discussed backups as well as scripting related to backups and in general. We went further to discuss the security implications surrounding backups, including whether or not a recovery is required when a site is hacked. The latter raises an important question: what constitutes a disaster that …
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Recovery Lessons Learned from Storage Failure
Recently, we experienced a fairly catastrophic SAN failure: we lost two drives of a RAID-5 array. Needless to say, recovery was time-consuming, but it also pointed out some general issues with many disaster recovery, business continuity, and general architectures involved with virtual environments. Luckily, we were able to start one of the drives, let the …
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