VEMBU BLOG

Cloud storage vendors got a new marketing message, “data on the cloud doesn’t require backup since we replicate the data to at least two different zones or locations”.  There is always this assumption amongst some Storage industry folks that ‘Storage is the new backup’.  If they say that “data is being backed” up just because the data is in the cloud which replicates it to multiple locations then they do not understand the difference between raw storage and backups.

According to a recent blog by W Curtis Preston “Good backup is much more than mere data protection: Backup must manage … Read the rest

Storing digital data is the prime objective of any data center;  the question is for how long the data is going to be stored. Almost all of us are storing our digital data on an offsite data center by the means of emails, photos, videos etc. I always had this thought in my mind that for how long would our personal data be stored and preserved. Say, if after some 150 or 200 years our great (great) grand children want to access the information, do they have the option to do that? This is not a problem for just an … Read the rest