The Backup Wrap-Up

If you've ever wondered about whether or not drive recovery services are a good option, then this is the podcast for you. W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss whether or not they're a viable alternative to backup.

Is it appropriate to backup your data to the cloud? Which workloads work well to be backed up to the cloud? Even more importantly, which workloads don't backup to the cloud well? These are the questions we answer in this episode of Restore it All, with W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi.

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the reality of egress charges (AKA data transfer charges) in the cloud, and how they are the digital equivalent of the fees we all used to pay to Iron Mountain.

There are backup & disaster recovery lessons to be learned from Netflix's The Tiger King, and HBO's Westworld. The 3-2-1 rule rules!

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss free services that vendors are offering during the Coronavirus lockdown, as well as an interesting discussion about how this might change how we work for the long haul.

Special guest Christopher Kusek ( @cxi )talks about #masks4all, why he was always a fan of the idea, and the current logic behind it now.

Lindsey Shultz, MD/MPH (Masters in Public Health) gives us hope for the future in this part of our three-part interview with her. If you haven't heard parts 1 and 2, please do so. They focus on defining the problem: what is COVID-19 and why is it so scary. This episode focuses primarily on hope for the future.

We continue our three-part interview with Lindsey Shultz, MD/MPH about the Coronavirus. In this second part, we focus on the reaction to COVID-19, and why it's so much more extreme than our reactions to other diseases of the past.

Lindsey Shultz MD/MPH (M.D. and Masters in Public Health) joins us to answer all our Coronavirus/COVID-19 questions. This is the first in a three-part interview with her, as she was so helpful we talked to her for almost two hours. You won't want to miss this one!

Enrico Signoretti (@esignoretti) joins us from Italy to discuss how the Coronavirus/Covid-19 quarantine is going. We also get a first-hand report about what it's like for a company that didn't have anyone working remotely to suddenly have hundreds doing so.

Prasanna Malaiyandi and W. Curtis Preston discuss week 2 of the Coronavirus scare. We dispense some helpful advice, both technical and non-technical.

@wcpreston and @pmalaiyandi discuss Coronavirus and how it's going to affect the IT community, as well as your backup and recovery system. We discuss remote employees, cloud data protection, and disaster recovery.

Brian Biles (@BrianBiles), Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Datrium, is our special guest. He explains their offerings, with a focus on how they use VMware Cloud on AWS to do DR.

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss how to create a backup plan, including discovering what can harm your data, gathering requirements, and looking at design options.

Special guest Chris Mellor (@chris_mellor) joins us on the podcast, and he asks some very good questions about the future of backup for Kubernetes, including a discussion about Portworx.

Our special guest this week is Preethi Srinivasan, Technical Product Architect at Druva. We talk about Machine Learning, analytics, and how they relate to Data Protection.

We discuss how Salesforce.com has reversed their position on their "recovery service" that costs $10,000 and takes 6-8 weeks.

We have a special guest this week! None other than the author of "Knative in Action," Jacques Chester is joining Prasanna and Curtis to help us understand the interesting world of Kubernetes, Docker, Knative, and how it all relates to backup and storage.

Due to the popularity of last week's podcast (An investor's perspective on Veem's Acquisiton), Prasanna and I decided to discuss this topic further. We used the article "The 6 things a private equity firm will do after they buy your business" from inc.com as a reference: https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/the-6-things-a-private-equity-firm-will-do-after-they-buy-your-business.html

One of the most successful investors in technology stocks is our special guest this first podcast of the new year! Matt Feshbach has managed billions in tech stocks, and he lends his brain to answer questions such as:- What does it mean that a private equity company just bought Veeam?- Why would they do that?- What's next?It's a great podcast where I learned a lot. Hope you like it!

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the various ways to back up IaaS, PaaS and SaaS data.

W. Curtis Preston & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the announcements of re:Invent 2019, and how Curtis fought zombies and lost.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Jon Owings, Principal Solutions Architect for Cloud Solutions at Pure Storage (@jon_2vcps), discuss what container backup is, why it's so difficult, and what you need to do to back them up.

In this special Thanksgiving Episode of Restore it All, Prasanna and Curtis talk about the things they're thankful for. Important stuff, like smart phones, virtualization, and containers. Yea... we're nerds.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss some vendor FUD about using AWS snapshots (which are really image copies and not snapshots) for protecting native AWS resources like EC2, Redshift, S3, and EBS.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss whether or not backup admins are no longer needed. They also discuss tapas and sangria. :)

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss SaaS backup: what it is, what it isn't, things to look for in a SaaS data protection solution, and how to decide if SaaS data protection is for you.

Jeff Rochlin, a former actor and Hollywood IT Industry veteran, makes his second appearance on Restore it All. W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi ask him to design a greenfield datacenter. We also talk about GDPR & CCPA.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the various ways one can backup a relational database, like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and a mystery guest discuss why it has become so popular for data protection companies to offer their product as a service.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi talk about the concept of "Instant boot" what companies use it for, and when (and when) not it might be an appropriate tool.

Curtis & Prasanna greet their special guests Chris Mellor (Editor, The Register) and Chris Evans (Storage Unpacked Podcast), and talk about The Forrester Wave: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2019. If you want to download the report yourself, you can do so here: https://resources.druva.com/analyst-reports/the-forrester-wave-data-resiliency-solutions-q3-2019

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) interviews Eugenia Buzogly, Senior Director of Legal and Data Protection Officer for Druva about a recent GDPR ruling that some have interpreted to mean they no longer have to comply! (Here's the ruling: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/09/24/cp190112en.pdf) Does the ruling actually mean that?

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Rob Worman discuss various backup configuration mistakes they've seen throughout their many years of backup.

In this "bonus" episode of Restore it All, I offer a complete departure from our normal podcast content as Rob Worman regales us with stories of what it's like to be a Jeopardy champion, as well as the path he took the get there. Some good advice for anyone thinking about being on the show.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss two recent huge ransomware attacks. One that affected dozens of cities in Texas, and hundreds of dentists in the US. We discuss things you can do to ensure you don't get attacked, as well as what to do in case you get attacked.

W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the AWS outage that happened over Labor Day weekend, where some customers actually lost data. We also discuss what they could/should have done to prevent that.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi talk with Steve Schaub at VMworld 2019 about VMware's announcements, and we also tell funny backup stories.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss various challenges with disaster recovery. We also have a very special guest star!

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Ben Patridge talk about the things they learned while working in IT and backups at a bank.

Special guest on the podcast this week, Ben Patridge (Portland beer Ben), and W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) discuss horror stories and other things gone wrong with backups, while drinking a couple of Trappist beers from Belgium.

After covering in the last episode why tape isn't really good for backup anymore, W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the continued uses for tape. It's not dead -- even growing.

W. Curtis Preston (AKA Mr. Backup) explains to Prasanna Malaiyandi the early days of tape, and what happened to make backup and tape to become bad for each other.

Today we have a special guest on Restore it All, and it's none other than Jeff Rochlin, an industry veteran and long-time friend. He's going to be giving us the inside scoop about how they do storage and backups in Hollywood, where he has worked for over 40 years. He started out as an actor, and has run IT for the likes of Disney, Dreamworks, and is now head of IT at Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes. This episode is a little longer than most, but it's full of good stuff. I hope you enjoy it.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi are joined by a guest, Matt Leib, and they discuss how Microsoft disabled the registry backup in Windows 10 and told no one.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malayaindi interview an IT director from a tech company in the bay area. (Company and full name withheld for privacy reasons.) . We discuss what it's like to be an IT and security manager in today's world.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss different ways of using the cloud for backup

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss why it's important to backup SaaS services such as Office 365, G Suite, and Salesforce

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss various ways people perform disaster recovery

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malayaindi discuss how to protect yourself from ransomware, and how to recover from if it happens.