When Your Business’ Data is on the Line, Hope is NOT a Strategy
As an IT administrator, there are few things which conjure more of a sick feeling in the pit of one’s stomach than a disastrous event which corrupts or loses company data. Data is the second currency of a business after actual currency, so losing it is not an option. These disastrous events take all kinds of forms including natural disasters, data breaches from hackers, accidental data deletion, and a myriad of others. Even something as small as an engineer spilling coffee on a system could wipe out the server and any virtual servers running on it. However, statistically the data shows us that most organizations are not implementing a disaster recovery plan. In 2012, Symantec’s SMB (worldwide organizations with less than 250 employees) disaster preparedness survey found that despite its importance, 74% of them didn’t have a disaster recovery plan in place. One year later, in 2013, another Symantec survey conducted at a Gartner Data Center conference, found that number still hadn’t moved. The best way of finding success with a data protection solution is by breaking through the three biggest barriers to success: Fragmented Information. IT can no longer afford to approach data backup the same as it has in the past; rigid, silo-ed, and sluggish. If file server data is backed up to the cloud, SQL databases are backed up locally on tapes, and accounting data is backed up to a NAS, silo-ed data and duplicity are robbing your organization’s storage efficiency. Exclusion of VMs from Standard Backups. Consolidating backup data on physical servers is important enough, but virtual servers present another layer of needed protection. A 2013 study from King Research and Symantec found that over half of organizations use different backup applications for virtual machines and physical machines. Choose one data protection solution which is capable of backing up and restoring data from virtual and physical servers. As in the first example, consolidation is your friend. Fear of the Difficult. Occasionally there is the perception that the process of evaluating, centralizing, and consolidating is too difficult. This can be especially true when administrators are facing multiple servers, locations, and databases on the network. However, this is simply not the case, and the time and money they save while eliminating duplication far outweighs the initial time investment. Also be aware that the larger the network grows, the more unwieldy and expensive multiple systems will become. There are numerous advantages to consolidating data with the goal of becoming a more agile IT department. In addition to being able to back up all of the data in one location, maximizing the efficiency of the storage, using one application, there is the added bonus in being able to quickly dive into a backup file to restore lost data, too. Speed of restoration should also be a key consideration before looking to the cloud to be your only target for backing up data. Check out Symantec’s work on how to enable the Agile Data Center for more information. Your business is only going to be as modernized and agile as your IT; it’s what enables your people and processes to work smoothly together.803Views2likes0CommentsPor qué amamos los appliances
Con el paso del tiempo, los profesionales de TI han visto cambiar drásticamente la tecnología que más necesitamos. Aunque parecen pequeños y simples, los appliances de copia de seguridad en el centro de datos pueden incorporarse a nuestras vidas con muy poco esfuerzo o sin esfuerzo, se ejecutan con muy poca intervención externa y permiten ahorrar tiempo, por lo general, sin requerir configuración. Gracias a la simplicidad que proporcionan, los appliances pueden liberar recursos en su empresa de maneras que no se imagina. EL ROL DE LOS APPLIANCES Entonces, ¿qué rol tienen estos pequeños, pero poderosos appliances de copia de seguridad en un centro de datos? La respuesta no es sencilla ya que existen muchas respuestas. Un appliance de copia de seguridad especialmente diseñado (PBBA) puede habilitar la disponibilidad de las aplicaciones, proporcionar una copia de seguridad dinámica y hacer posible la rápida recuperación de datos, todo integrado en un solo appliance de seguridad. Si bien tienen muchos usos, su verdadera fortaleza reside en la capacidad de los appliances de fusionar componentes separados e independientes, lo que simplifica el centro de datos y elimina la existencia de varios sistemas heredados, además de reducir la expansión del centro de datos, que puede ser el origen del constante aumento de los gastos operativos. SIMPLEZA Y AGILIDAD La capacidad de simplificar el centro de datos es la mayor ventaja del appliance. Así como ahora varias máquinas virtuales pueden existir en un solo hardware, un appliance puede integrar varios componentes de hardware en un solo paquete físico, lo que libera recursos de TI y la infraestructura para otros fines. Esta función cobra aún más valor si considera que más del 50% de los departamentos de TI de la empresa mantienen los mismos niveles de personal. Una administración simplificada libera a los departamentos de TI para que se enfoquen en otras tareas críticas como administrar su información o respaldar iniciativas empresariales estratégicas. La administración simplificada de la información también puede aumentar la agilidad de las redes. Por ejemplo, considere un appliance de copia de seguridad comoNetBackup 5230 o NetBackup 5330. Este último, está diseñado para brindar capacidad, alto rendimiento y resistencia y flexibilidad escalables que permitan abordar los objetivos de copia de seguridad y recuperación más exigentes en el centro de datos y, al mismo tiempo, proteger entornos virtuales y físicos. La simplicidad es solo uno de los beneficios principales de agregar un appliance al centro de datos. En nuestra próxima publicación, analizaremos otro de los principales beneficios: el ahorro de costos. Si está considerando agregar un appliance a su centro de datos, estos dos beneficios serán fundamentales en su análisis. Asegúrese de no perderse nada.3 Steps for Protecting Your Data from Disaster
From a business perspective, a disaster isn’t just a violent storm or terrorist attack that makes news headlines. Anything that makes normal operations difficult or impossible can be disastrous – Imagine that all of your customer files have evaporated, along with everyone’s email messages, pending customer orders and your entire accounts receivables database.Super Charge Your Backup Performance with Backup Exec 2014
At Symantec, we often talk about information and data as the lifeblood of the business, especially in today’s digital world. Whether it’s in the form of financial reports, emails or software — information powers our world. If companies lose that information, or worse yet, entire platforms running that data, business comes to a screeching halt.