Comments on: Backup is dead. Long live backup!

By: diane welsch

diane welsch — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:42:25 +0000

@michael

Good observation. We’ve actually been conducting a lot of surveys to find out just how (and how often) back-ups are utilized by SMBs. What we discovered is pretty surprising. A majority actually have a back-up system in place. Unfortunately, this system is either outdated or, as you said, inefficient. Another is that most SMBs actually know the appropriate kind of back-up that ought to be utilized, but being completely satisfied with their current system, do not spend the resources to upgrade that system.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:27:52 +0000

The fact that 92% of companies employ any sort of backup technology means that the idea of backing up critical data is a top priority for most companies. But the mere fact that 50% of them have lost it (or some amount of it) only goes to show that the backup systems being implemented are either inadequate, or inefficient.

Just because you’ve got seatbelts doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do without airbags.

By: william

william — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:22:55 +0000

“Far from ‘backup is dead’, I’d go as far as stating that ‘backup does not exist’”

As sad as that sounds, I have to agree with this kind of sentiment. With the explosion of necessary data in large corporations and SMBs, a lot of companies are shifting their focus on data gathering, collation, data basing and analysis. But very few resources are being poured into backing up all this information.

By: John Mello

John Mello — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:14:43 +0000

EMC’s Chuck Hollis makes a good point about the column by Jean-Jacques Maleval in the Storage Newsletter. Hollis, in his Chuck’s Blog, notes sometimes outrageous statements are made to attract attention, to add to the noise level surrounding an issue rather than reducing it. That’s not entirely the case with Maleval’s column, but certainly the headline is deliberately designed to create controversy, which it seems to have done very effectively. Once that controversy dies down, though, backups will still be around, waiting to be pronounced dead another day.