Ron LaPedis’ Post

View profile for Ron LaPedis, graphic

Cyber, BCP, and law enforcement evangelist & story teller. Ponemon Distinguished Fellow.

As a #businesscontinuity professional, I have always recommended offline #backups - that is, backups that are nowhere near your primary on-cloud or off-cloud environment. UniSuper, a $135 billion pension firm, learned this lesson the hard way when a Google Cloud "event" wiped out everything - their compute environment, data, and backups. While I recommend OpenText Carbonite cloud-to-cloud backup software, the important point here is that you need something, anything -- that works -- to take and maintain immutable backups as far away from your primary compute environment as possible. https://lnkd.in/gjBurbEm

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups

arstechnica.com

The importance of having offline backups cannot be overstated, as illustrated by the unfortunate incident with UniSuper. It's essential to look beyond just cloud solutions and consider versatile options like hybrid approaches to ensure data is always recoverable. What steps do you recommend for evaluating the effectiveness of different backup solutions?

Like
Reply
Gregory Lynn

Catalyst for business growth, harnessing customer stories and innovation. Product Development | Engineering | Innovation

6mo

As a veteran of the storage industry could not agree more, I run with a minimum of 5 backups across different mediums.

See more comments

To view or add a comment, sign in

Explore topics