When outages strike, is your business ready to recover without major revenue and productivity losses? In this video, podcast host W. Curtis Preston and his co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi dive deep into best practices for crafting robust disaster recovery (DR) plans tailored to your environment. Learn what disaster scenarios are most…
Get back to basics on the critical elements every business needs in their disaster recovery plan before catastrophe strikes. We detail the key considerations around infrastructure, RTOs/RPOs, documentation, testing, automation, and more required for restoring systems after ransomware, natural disasters, or other data crises. Along with the fundamentals, we share…
Backup restores data to a past point-in-time. Archive retrieves data based on search criteria. Companies archive for legal discovery and compliance. Backup lacks full search, intermediate versions, and metadata needed to properly support lawsuits and regulations. Curt recounts real disasters - from manual email restores costing over $1 million to…
In this classic rebroadcast of our most popular 2023 episode, Curtis and Prasanna dive back into backup basics, discussing best practices for protecting your traditional data sources like physical servers, virtual machines, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. They debate the ongoing question of what traditional systems still need backup in…
Ransomware attacks are inevitable - does your business have an incident response plan in place? Infosec expert Melissa Palmer joins the Backup Wrap-up again to outline the essential strategies and steps organizations need to take BEFORE disaster strikes. We discuss ransomware recovery testing methods, coordinating across teams, securing backups, detecting…
Is your backup system due for an overhaul? Join backup guru W. Curtis Preston and his cohost Prasanna Malaiyandi as they lay out key guidance to help you determine if and when to make a change. In this episode, Curtis digs into crucial questions like: - How do you know…
Join hosts W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi as they provide a primer on copy data management - a holistic approach to cataloging, securing, and reducing all the duplicated production data used for backup, DR, development, etc. Curtis and Prasanna analyze the problems that copy sprawl creates, like increased storage…
Snapshots allow for rapid recovery, but they're not a backup. Replication copies your data offsite, but doesn't protect from logical failures. What if you could get the best of both worlds? Join backup gurus W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi as they explain how combining snapshots AND replication provides a…
Think tape backup is dead? Think again! This podcast episode from backup legends W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaviya explores why modern tape technology has experienced a surprising resurgence. Learn how the latest LTO-9 tape drives and 50TB Fujifilm cartridges provide air gap protection that stops ransomware dead in its…
In this episode, Curtis and Prasanna explore the concept of "air gaps" in data protection, drawing insights from the past era of physical tape backups. They discuss the core principles outlined by the UK National Cyber Security Centre for safeguarding backups, emphasizing the importance of resilience, out-of-band authorization, key management,…
In this episode of The Backup Wrap-Up, host W. Curtis Preston discusses the importance of understanding the difference between snapshots and backups. He emphasizes that snapshots are not a reliable form of backup and highlights the risks associated with relying solely on virtual snapshots. The episode also covers a frustrating…
In this episode of The Backup Wrap-Up, W. Curtis Preston, a.k.a. Mr. Backup, and his guest, Prasanna Malaiyandi, dive into the world of Continuous Data Protection (CDP). They discuss the history of CDP, its advantages and challenges, and whether it can truly deliver a zero RTO and RPO. Join them…
In this episode, we dive into the world of data restoration and cloud-based backup systems. Our guests discuss the potential future of restores and the challenges associated with creating always-on copies of data. We also explore the rising concern of ransomware and how it is shaping the industry. Join us…
In this episode of the Backup Wrap-Up podcast, W. Curtis Preston, aka Mr. Backup, and Prasanna Malyandi dive into the world of backups and discuss what truly constitutes a backup. They cover important backup concepts such as multiplexing, incremental backups, block-level incremental backups, and source-side deduplication. With over 30 years…
In this episode of The Backup Wrap-up, W. Curtis Preston discusses the importance of protecting cloud infrastructure with his co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). They dive into the topic of backing up IaaS, PaaS and…
In this episode of the Backup Wrap-Up, hosts W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi explore the topic of data protection in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. They begin by discussing the importance of backing up data from IoT devices and raise questions about the number of devices in an…
In this episode of the Backup Wrap-Up, host W. Curtis Preston, also known as Mr. Backup, discusses the topic of backing up data in a hybrid cloud storage system. He starts with a brief overview of backup-related news and then dives into the question of whether or not backing up…
In this podcast, the host discusses the common misconception in the technology industry that every problem can be solved with new equipment or software. The guest, a cyber expert, emphasizes the importance of focusing on process, people, and then technology. They also talk about their own podcast, which is a…
In this episode of the Restore It All podcast, W. Curtis Preston, a.k.a. Mr. Backup, and Prasanna Malaiyandi are joined by Chris Groot and Stefan Voss from N-Able, a company specializing in backup, data protection and security systems. Nable focuses on serving the needs of managed service providers to deliver…
In this episode of Restore it All, our hosts Curtis and Prasanna delve deep into the recent significant developments in the world of data backups, with a special spotlight on Microsoft 365's about-face on native user backups. They dissect Microsoft's sudden realization of its potential revenue streams and the ramifications…
In this episode, we look at the latest Ransomware Trends Report from Veeam, which gives us a view into the sobering world of ransomware attacks and the critical lessons they teach us about cyber defense. Join W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi, as they break down the key…
In this episode, W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi are joined by Eric Olden, the CEO of Strata Identity. With over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, Eric sheds light on the concept of Identity Orchestration and how it addresses the complexities of modern identity management in multi-cloud…
Duanne Laflotte, CTO of Pulsar Security and head of their red team, talks on our podcast about how your backup system can be used to attack you.
