Part 1 explains the fundamentals of backup and how to determine your unique backup specifications. You'll learn how to:

• Get started with backup and disaster recovery planning
• Set recovery objectives and loss tolerances
• Translate your business plan into a technically oriented outlook
• Create a customized agenda for obtaining key stakeholder support
• Set up a critical backup checklist
  

Part 2 shows you what exceptional backup looks like on a daily basis and the steps you need to get there, including:

• Choosing the Right Backup and Recovery Software
• Setting and Achieving Backup Storage Targets
• Securing and Protecting Backup Data
• Defining Backup Schedules
• Monitoring, Testing, and Maintaining Systems
  

Part 3 guides you through the process of creating a reliable disaster recovery strategy based on your own business continuity requirements, covering:

• Understanding key disaster recovery considerations
• Mapping out your organizational composition
• Replication
• Cloud solutions
• Testing the efficacy of your strategy
• The Backup Bible is the complete guide to protecting your data and an essential reference book for all IT admins and professionals.
  

Leverage testing to ensure your change plan is successful

• Ensure uptime while implementing change
• Maximize the end-user experience in a constantly changing environment
• Leverage testing to guarantee a successful roll-out of your change management plan in both pre-production and production

The importance of testing in your virtualized desktop environments

With VDI gaining greater popularity among many enterprises across multiple industries, and with growing numbers of desktops migrating to the cloud, the importance of testing your virtualized desktop environment has never been higher.

Read this white paper and learn how:

• End-user expectations for a great desktop experience from any device, at any time, are increasing
• IT departments must rise to the challenge of delivering outstanding service
• Requirements to reduce the complexity and costs associated with infrastructure

Downtime is extremely damaging in VDI environments. Revenue and reputation are lost, not to mention opportunity cost.

Download this white paper to learn how to:

• Eliminate VDI downtime
• Help IT get ahead of trouble tickets
• To optimize environments by using realistic user workloads for synthetic testing
• Safeguard the performance & availability of your VDI environment

Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for container orchestration, and it’s being used by born-in-the-cloud startups and cloud-native enterprises alike. In 2021, Kubernetes was in production on-premises, in the cloud, and even at the edge for many different types of applications, including those that Kubernetes wasn’t initially built for.

Kubernetes was never really built for stateful applications and, by default, lacks features for data protection. However, we see many organizations building and running their stateful applications on top of Kubernetes, indicating there’s a gap in functionality between what Kubernetes offers and what the (enterprise) market wants.

Unfortunately, existing data protection tools, mostly built for legacy technologies such as virtual machines, do not fit well into the container paradigm. Vendors are adapting existing solutions or creating new products from scratch that are often better aligned with the cloud-native and container paradigms.

The market for cloud-native data protection is growing rapidly, with both incumbent vendors and challengers competing for completeness of features, and differences can be observed between those targeting more traditional infrastructure alignment and those aimed at fully cloud-native environments.

In any case, we see a growing need for flexible, adaptive solutions that can meet the changing requirements of their customers. Multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-environment (including edge), multi-team, and self-service capabilities are quickly becoming differentiating features that ensure successful adoption, not for just one use case but for continuously changing use cases across the entire enterprise.

CloudCasa is the perfect example of this type of modern solution that can adapt quickly to changing business and technical needs. Designed to be Kubernetes native, it is a SaaS offering with a friendly licensing model that significantly eases the initial testing and adoption of the solution.