Virtualization and Cloud executives share their predictions for 2016. Read them in this 8th Annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Peter Laudenslager, Director, Product Marketing, Commvault
Two words for next year: Disaster recovery
With the end of the year quickly approaching, it’s time to predict what we think will be hot topics for cloud and virtualization in 2016. Two words: Disaster recovery. End of story.
Just kidding. There’s more to this story, of course, and we wanted to share a couple thoughts from what we’ve been noticing from the frontlines of our customers as they plan for next year.
Here are some predictions for what 2016 will bring:
Disaster recovery will be a game changer
The ability to use the cloud as more than a storage location for data has been a game changer to the industry.
- The ability to use the cloud as more than a storage location is a game changer
- Tier 2 or tier 3 workloads are being viewed as more and more critical, requiring DR in order to meet ever-tightening SLAs
- However, there’s not enough budget to support DR in the traditional, replica-hardware-at-a-secondary-site sense, so they need a utility model resource like the cloud where they can pay only for what they use instead of making a large capital investment
Don’t forget about backup & recovery
- Backup & recovery is often an afterthought of cloud adoption
- Many forget about backup & recovery or just assume it’s built-in to the replication offerings of the cloud provider
- Organizations need to remember to plan for backup and recovery methodologies that can span the on-prem or off-prem; physical, virtual, or cloud, etc. without implementing a bunch of new point tools that cause management silos.
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About the Author
Peter Laudenslager has been working on the leading edge of IT technology for nearly two decades, focusing on backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, storage architectures, virtualization and cloud. He helped pioneer cloud-based disaster recovery in 2009 with Double-Take Cloud, and worked on private and hybrid cloud strategy at Microsoft. Peter joined Commvault in 2015 as Director of Product Marketing for the Cloud Business Unit.
