Nick Glasgow Update...

If you all remember, back in May the blogging community kicked off a world wide search to help a fellow colleague, Nick Glasgow, with a bone marrow transplant that could save him from leukemia.

Earlier this month Nick received a successful marrow transplant and is on the Road to Recovery.

I wanted to keep you all apprised of his progress and let you know you can learn more @ http://markfredrickson.wordpress.com/

Thank you to… Read more »

A Data Proteciton Reference Architecture – Part 4

Business Critical Applications

The tip of the triangle focuses on the applications (or data) that drives your business. It is these applications within your business that, should they go down for any length of time, cost you money. The recovery of this information, in the event of a ‘disaster’, needs to be very fast (RTO in minutes) and the data can’t be very ‘old’ when it is recovered (short RPO, less than 24 hours). Typically… Read more »

Twitter is not a Great Polling Tool - However...

Last week I crossed 500 Twitter followers. I thought I would test out my followers to see how many thoughtful responses I would get if I posed a real question about 'Data Protection'. So the question was:

What do you think of when you think about 'Data Protection'?

I got 3 replies - less than 1% - wow! I would have thought people who you follow would be more engaged in back and forth dialog… Read more »

A Data Proteciton Reference Architecture - Part 3

The 'Fat Middle'

In the 'fat middle' of the triangle, as I stated last week, there are a number of ways to protection information. I have chosen to break apart the middle into two categories. The reality is, this is meant to be used as a tool for helping you lay out a strategy so your boxes could be based on capacity and could end up in different areas of the triangle depending upon your… Read more »

A Data Protection Reference Architecture – Part 2

Archive

The most fundamental part of developing a good data protection architecture starts at the base of the triangle with Archive. Archive is often an overlooked component of data protection - It’s not just for regulated business anymore. Archive essentially gives users 100% data deduplication efficiency. What I mean by this is that you have the ability to remove ‘stale’ data (and by 'stale' I don't mean unimportant data, I just mean data that is… Read more »