The Architecture

This ‘architecture’ diagram, as you can see, is not a typical architecture diagram, but hopefully it can be used to align your business and business objectives with the technologies that are available and can best be applied to solve your issues helping to balance, cost, complexity and compliance.

This diagram can also be used to do a couple of other things. It can help you begin to classify your data and align your… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »