Disaster Recovery Session

Building a Service-Oriented Data Protection Strategy
Presented by Jon William Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal, Toigo Partners International LLC

Data protection is not a one-size-fits-all strategy.  Different data protection methods, ranging from WAN-based data replication and clustering to tape backup and restore, are available to provide the data recovery capability that a business process or application requires.  Matching data protection service levels to business requirements is not only a rational approach, but also a cost effective one.

The challenge, however, to service level-based data protection provisioning is the multiplicity of data protection methods that must be monitored and managed.  How can we integrate tape backup and disk to disk replication services under a common monitoring umbrella, simplifying the management role?  How can we facilitate the on-going testing of recovery scenarios, through a combination of simulated and real time testing, to ensure that service levels can be met even as the volume of data being protected changes?  How can we wrangle third party hardware and software-based data protection schemes into a coherent facility for centralized monitoring and management? Jon Toigo sets out the challenge and examines potential solutions.