INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES
PREDICTIONS 2018
Point of inflexion for
cloud replication
and portability
Rick Vanover and Danny
Allen at Veeam present
their predictions for
disaster recovery, data
growth and availability
across the year ahead.
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t is hard to put down specific
predictions for a year, but the reality
is the technology landscape provides
endless possibilities for organisations to
provide great services for the datacenter
and the information it provides. Here are
some of what will make 2018 different:
Disaster recovery 2.0
2017 was unfortunately an incredibly bad
year for both the number and intensity
of natural disasters. This will encourage
organisations to challenge many of the
fundamentals of disaster recovery and
business continuity. One specific bit of
best practice, to challenge is the idea
that 10 miles is enough distance for
accepted separation. This year’s fires,
hurricanes, earthquakes and floods clearly
demonstrated that 10 miles is nowhere near
enough distance. This realisation paves
the way for cloud and service provider
technologies to provide the solution to the
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This year’s fires,
hurricanes,
earthquakes and
floods clearly
demonstrated
that 10 miles is
nowhere near
enough distance.
distance problem, as well as additional
missing capabilities and robust tools that
orchestrate the process to give organisations
the Availability they need in a disaster.
Portability is king
Organisations will be more comfortable
to move workloads around as they see
fit. Whether that is on-premises, in the
hyper-public cloud, in a service provider
or a complete transition to a Software as
a Service model, the right platform to run
a service will prevail, and organisations
will do what is needed to move these
workloads and keep them Available.
The important takeaway to remember
is that responsibilities do not necessarily
change when applications, data and
services move to a new platform.
Managing data versus
managing storage
Organisations will take a marked
approach to looking at their data and
managing it better. The explosive
amount of data coming in really is not
sustainable. Organisations will take a
serious look at archiving selected data,
which will require policies to be re-
written, conversations with the business
and even new platforms leveraged.
These new platforms will include offline
object storage technologies like Amazon
Glacier or Azure Cool Blob storage. This
will be a great way to comply with business
rules for long-term retention of that isn’t
accessed often. Additionally, this is a great
middle ground when organisations can’t
agree on when to delete data.
Cloud replication hits an up-turn
Business continuity for digital services has
been a significant focus for every executive
over the past decade. Enterprises no longer
just offer digital services, they are the
digital services which they provide. Down
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