Is On-Site Backup Dead ?
M any read recently Microsoft dire predictions for the future of on-site backup in the Enterprise. While their interest in promoting snapshot based Azure Site Recovery was undoubtedly behind the pronouncement their post made some interesting points. The argument that it’s too complex, too costly and in a nutshell just not effective has been made in varying degrees earlier too. Microsoft makes the point that the way backup was handled in a pre-cloud world was drastically different and the processes that were put into place were valid only for those times. The whole concept, including all systems and processes, of creating copies of the data and sending them off for storing at remote sites was intended as a “back up” plan for natural disasters, power outages and security threats. The problem is that the “backup plan” of most organizations usually includes several different bits and pieces that have to mesh together absolutely perfectly when the time comes to achieve the goal of prov...