BACKUPBESTPRACTICES.ORG

The goal of BackupBestPractices.ORG is to help educate the IT community about industry best practices and emerging perspectives in the backup and recovery / data protection space. While there are many conferences that claim to have a "backup and recovery track", their content is typically aimed at selling you a particular technology rather than having a focus on industry best practices and how to structure the Data Protection Service for your particular organization... For example, some folks argue that tape is more reliable than disk, while others claim that disk is more reliable and that tape is dead. What is the truth, and does it really matter? How do you create a backup and recovery cost model for your organization? Do you still backup every server every day and forget that it is the critical, unique business data that really matters for your organization's sustainability and compliance? What are deduplication appliances and how do they work? What is the best way to report on the..