Each Wednesday in June, I explored an aspect of utilizing cloud services as part of your data protection strategy through a series of videos and blogs – based on ESG’s Data Protection Cloud Strategies research report.
Part 1 – WHY use clouds as part of your data protection strategy … June 7
Part 2 – WHICH clouds to use within your data protection strategy … June 14
Part 3 – HOW to ensure security when using clouds within your data protection strategy … June 21
Part 4 – WHAT products or services might you consider when using clouds within your data protection strategy … June 28
To wrap up the series, here are a few products or services that the ESG Lab has conducted validations of. If you are not familiar with the ESG Lab, I like to think of them as third-party assessments, similar to (but not exactly) “Consumer Reports for IT.” Here are a few of the cloud-powered data protection solutions that ESG Lab looked at in the past few months:
Storage-as-a-service (STaaS/dp) – adding cloud storage as a repository for otherwise on-premises data protection solutions. There are many backup/archive software and hardware vendors that now claim to utilize cloud services, with very varying amounts of finesse (which can dramatically impact cloud storage and networking budgets).
ESG Lab: Cloud Converged Data Protection for SMBs with Acronis Backup 12 — October 2016
ESG Lab: Rubrik Cloud Data Management — December 2016
ESG Lab: Quantum Artico Active Archive Appliance — June 2016
Disaster Recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) – leveraging cloud hosting (IaaS), cloud storage, orchestration/automation, and cloud network extensions to enable servers that fail at one site to resume serving users from a cloud service. To be clear, there is a huge difference in storing protected data in a cloud (STaaS/dp or BaaS) and being able to “power it up.” There is even more of a difference between powering up a single VM versus powering up and reconnecting to a multi-VM application or complete site recovery.
ESG Lab: Cloud-converged IT Resilience from Axcient Fusion — November 2016
I hope that this series was helpful for you – and that you are having a great summer.
As always, thanks for reading.
Originally posted on my personal self-managed blog while at ESG (TechnicalOptimist.com), reposted on DPM for archival reference. Broken links are likely due to ESG content being dropped between its acquisition by TechTarget and their acquisition by Omdia.