Data Protection: All Starts with an Architecture

At The Virtualization Practice, we have systems running in the cloud as well as on-premises. We run a 100% virtualized environment, with plenty of data protection, backup, and recovery options. These are all stitched together using one architecture: an architecture developed through painful personal experiences. We just had an interesting failure—nothing catastrophic, but it could …

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 …