Welcome to the Data Protection Diaries

Updated 1/10/2018

Welcome to the Data Protection Diaries

This is a series of posts about data protection which includes security (logical and physical), backup/restore, business continuance (BC), disaster recovery (DR), business resiliency (BR) along with high availability (HA), archiving and related topic themes, technologies and trends.

Think of data protection like protect, preserve and serve information across cloud, virtual and physical environments spanning traditional servers, storage I/O networking along with mobile (ok, some IoT as well), SOHO/SMB to enterprise.

Getting started, taking a step back

Recently I have done a series of webinars and Google+ hangouts as part of the BackupU initiative brought to you by Dell Software (that’s a disclosure btw ;) ) that are vendor and technology neutral. Instead of the usual vendor product or technology focused seminars and events, these are about getting back to the roots, the fundamentals of what to protect when and why, then decide your options as well as different approaches (e.g. what tools to use when).

In addition over the past year (ok, years) I have also been doing other data protection related events, seminars, workshops, articles, tips, posts across cloud, virtual and physical from SOHO/SMB to enterprise. These are in addition to the other data infrastructure server and storage I/O stuff (e.g. SSD, object storage, software defined, big data, little data, buzzword bingo and others).

Keep in mind that in the data center or information factory everything is not the same as there are different applications, threat risk scenarios, availability and durability among other considerations. In this series like the cloud conversations among others, I’m going to be pulling various data protection themes together hopefully to make it easier for others to find, as well as where I know where to get them.

Some notes for an upcoming post in this series using my Livescribe about data protection

Data protection topics, trends, technologies and related themes

• Part 1 – Data Infrastructure Data Protection Fundamentals
• Part 2 – Reliability, Availability, Serviceability ( RAS) Data Protection Fundamentals
• Part 3 – Data Protection Access Availability RAID Erasure Codes ( EC) including LRC
• Part 4 – Data Protection Recovery Points (Archive, Backup, Snapshots, Versions)
• Part 5 – Point In Time Data Protection Granularity Points of Interest
• Part 6 – Data Protection Security Logical Physical Software Defined
• Part 7 – Data Protection Tools, Technologies, Toolbox, Buzzword Bingo Trends
• Part 8 – Data Protection Diaries Walking Data Protection Talk
• Part 9 – who’s Doing What ( Toolbox Technology Tools)
• Part 10 – Data Protection Resources Where to Learn More
• Data Protection Diaries series
• Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading List Book Shelf
• Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC 2017) Book

Here are some more posts to checkout pertaining to data protection trends, technologies and perspectives:

• Iron Mountain: Information Lifecycle Management Strategy: Which Data Types Have Value?
• StorageIOblog: S3motion Buckets Containers Objects AWS S3 Cloud and EMCcode
• BackupU resources (Sponsored by Dell): Various Application, Virtualization and Related Data Protection links and resources (vendor and product neutral)
• BackupU resources (Sponsored by Dell): Various Application, Virtualization and Related Data Protection webinars and G+ chats (vendor and product neutral)
• StorageIOblog: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements
• StorageIOblog: March 2015 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter Focus on Data Protection
• StorageIOblog: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?
• StorageIOblog: Data Protection Gumbo = Protect Preserve and Serve Information
• CyberTrend: Comments on Software Defined Data Center and Virtualization
• Processor: Comments on Enterprise Backup Solution Buying Tips
• Processor: Comments on Considerations For Failed & Old Drives
• Processor: Comments on Quickly Detect & Avoid Hard Drive Failures
• Processor: Comments on What Resilient & Highly Available Mean
• Processor: Comments on What Abandoned Data Is Costing Your Company
• Processor: Comments on Match Application Needs & Infrastructure Capabilities
• CyberTrend: Comments on Enterprise Backup
• Processor: Comments on Buying Tips: Enterprise Backup Solutions
• Processor: Comments on Re-evaluate Server Security
• 5 Tips for Factoring Software into Disaster Recovery Plans
• Remote office backup, archiving and disaster recovery for networking pros
• Securing your information assets and data, what about your storage?
• Bridging the gap: Choosing storage-over-distance network technology
• Wide area network resiliency best practices
• 3 Questions to Help SMBs Plan a Backup Strategy
• Until the focus expands to data protection, backup is staying alive!
• Part II Until the focus expands to data protection – What to do about it
• Part III Until the focus expands to data protection – Taking action
• Data Protection Modernization, More than swapping out media
• Data Protection Diaries – My data protection needs and wants
• Only you can prevent cloud data loss
• Cloud storage: Dont be scared, however look before you leap
• Cloud conversations: Has Nirvanix shutdown caused cloud confidence concerns?
• Virtual, Cloud and IT Availability, its a shared responsibility and common sense
• Cloud conversations: Loss of data access vs. data loss
• backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving
• Presentation/Webinar – Hybrid Clouds: Bridging the Gap Between Public and Private Environments
• Presentation/Webinar – Modernizing Data Protection For Cloud, Virtual and Physical Environments
• Missing MH370 should remind us, do you know where your digital assets are?
• Rings Of Security For Protection Or Bling For Appearance?
• Securing your information assets and data, what about your storage?
• My copies were corrupted: The 3-2-1 rule
• Data Protection Diaries: March 31 World Backup Day is Restore Data Test Time

Ok, nuff said (for now)

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
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