Best Practices for Incorporating Cloud Services into your backup and recovery strategyBest Practices for Incorporating Cloud Services into your backup and recovery strategy

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Data is the enterprise’s most critical asset and protecting that data is vital to ensure business continuity in the event of system failure, user error, or a disaster. Today, cloud has become an important option in your backup and restore strategies. Nearly every organization talks about using cloud services in some capacity.  Despite this, only a relatively small percentage of them incorporate cloud services into their existing backup and recovery strategy. Service providers realize this and now offer cloud services offerings that range from archiving and replication to recovery, which are ready for corporate use. 

During this webinar, Michael Otey will first present some current customer trends about moving applications and backup to the cloud, and then will discuss the ways that downtime can be costly to your business. Next you’ll learn about how Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objects (RTOs) can influence you cloud backup and recovery strategies. Jerome Wendt of DCIG will then share some best practices that incorporate cloud services as part of a backup and recovery process.

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Speakers

Michael Otey, senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro, is president of TECA, a software-development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon. Michael has covered the topic of virtualization extensively for Windows IT Pro, having written several features articles showing how to take advantage of virtualization in the enterprise as well as reviewing all of the major virtualization products. He also previously served as technical director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro. Email him at [email protected] Follow Michael on Google+ and Twitter.

Jerome Wendt is the President and Lead Analyst of DCIG LLC, an independent storage analyst and consulting firm. Mr. Wendt co-founded the company in September 2006. Since founding the company, Mr. Wendt has published extensively in data storage publications and journals covering all facets of storage. He regularly assists storage vendors in the preparation of white papers, marketing materials, sales guides and customer messaging. Prior to founding DCIG LLC, Mr. Wendt worked in a variety of end user roles including Systems Manager, Storage Engineer and Storage Administrator for companies of all sizes. In his most recent position, Mr. Wendt worked as a Storage Engineer for First Data Corp. in Omaha, NE, where he was part of the team responsible for managing four different data centers. Wendt was responsible for introducing storage virtualization, storage resource management (SRM) software and tiered storage into the First Data storage environment. He also led the corporate wide initiative to roll out SRM software to all of First Data’s data centers. Mr. Wendt earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems in 1995 from Washburn University (Topeka, KS) and a bachelor’s degree in Theology in 1990 from Ambassador University (now merged with Azusa Pacific University) in Pasadena, CA.