The Backup Wrap-Up

Prasanna and Curtis discuss their opinion of an ITPro article called Nine Tips to Improve your Disaster Recovery Strategy. In case you're curious, they are:1. Have full documentation2. Assess the risks3. Drill for disaster4. Prepare for disasters of different levels5. Consider the cloud6. Prioritize resilience7. Evaluate security practices8. Revise and Revisit9. Build a critical response team

Scott Lowe (@otherscottlowe) joins us on the podcast to discuss the recent major hack of Twitter, where hundreds of accounts were compromised using backdoor access gained via a Twitter employee.

W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the pros and cons of the various ways to backup a NAS filer.

Curtis and Prasanna discuss the very difficult problem of "forgetting" someone using a backup system that is fundamentally designed to remember. This is a direct conflict between GDPR/CCPA and backup.

Antone Kom, 7X Certified Salesforce expert, explains to W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi all the things that can go wrong when you don't backup your Salesforce database.

Chris Evans (@chrismevans) discusses with us the idea of cloud "snapshots" (which are actually image copies & very different than array snapshots) and the pros and cons of using them for backup & recovery – as well as other purposes.

We are joined by Jake Burns, who is an industry veteran and an AWS and Druva customer before he became an AWS employee. He is now Enterprise Strategist at AWS and shares with us how LIveNation moved their entire corporate infrastructure to the cloud in one year, and how he now supports AWS customers in their cloud journey.

On this special US Independence Day edition, we talk a little bit about history in general, and how we all owe those who came before us. Then we morph that discussion into one about backups, and how we must also remember the backup lessons of the past. W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston) then tells old backup stories.

Zoë Rose, a cyber investigator from the UK, joins us to talk about the lessons we can learn from the ransomware attack on Honda. We discuss a number of "common sense" things a company can do to protect their data.

GigagOm analyst Enrico Signoretti (@esignoretti) is our guest this week, and he helps us understand their latest radar report, which evaluates data management vendors.

On this first anniversary special, we are joined by my daughter, the voice behind our podcast's theme song. Fun times talking to her, and talking about our dreams for next year's broadcast.

We continue our series of how Hollywood Picks backup products, discussing vendor selection and proofs of concepts. Jeff Rochlin returns as a guest, hosted by W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi.

We talk to Jeff Rochlin, a veteran of many Hollywood studios and related businesses, about how he would go about picking a backup product in that environment. W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi hosting.

Prasanna Malaiyandi and W. Curtis Preston discuss an article that says that backups are worthless for DR. Are they? Some are, some aren't. Have a listen and see if you agree!

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.