Podcast: What Is Cloud Ready Data Protection?

[CalvinZito]

A month ago I had a blog post titled What you need to know about cloud ready storage. Today I’m following up with a “podcast” that takes look at cloud ready data protection.

I say "podcast" in quotes because I can only share with you a YouTube version of the podcast now. More on that later. 

What you'll hear about

Simon Watkins, a regular contributor on ATSB, joined me for the podcast. Simon has been a part of the data protection team for as long time and brings a lot of expertise to the topic.  Here's what we covered in our chat:

• 00:00 - 02:45 Introductions. Also a bit of a lesson on what is football.
• 02:45 - 04:20 What is driving cloud adoption for data protection/DR and what are common use cases?
• 04:20 - 05:30 Addressing the 3-2-1 backup rule with on-premises and public cloud.
• 05:30 - 07:45 What challenges do customers face using public cloud data protection?
• 07:45 - 09:30 What is cloud ready data protection?
• 09:30 - 10::50 How does HPE Storage address cloud ready data protection?
• 10:50 - 12:45 How can a customer who doesn't have StoreOnce today take advantage of this? Why should a customer using a competitive product consider StoreOnce?
• 12:45 -  14:00 Security is an important element of any public cloud conversation - how is that addressed?
• 14:00 - 16:30 Customers want bandwidth efficient to limit costs? How is that addressed? 
• 16:30 - 18:20 Customers who are using HPE Cloud Bank Storage.
• 18:20 - 19:00 Key takeaways from the podcast.
• 19:00 - 21:00 Wrap-up.

UPDATE: I was able to upload the podcast to TalkShoe so here's a link you can either click on to listen or right-click and download the MP3. Get ATSB #237 here. 

To subscribe to the podcast, open this link and click on the "View in iTunes" button under my picture. If you don't use iTunes, you can find my podcast on TalkShoe.com and it has just been added to Google Play Music as well.  On Google, you'll get "invited" to try Google Play Music for 30 days - just click "no thanks" to get past this and get to the podcast.

Here's a YouTube version of the podcast. 

I host my podcasts on TalkShoe.com. For the first time in 9 years of using it, I'm getting an error and can't upload my podcast. I'm hoping they fix the issue soon and as soon as they do, I'll add the real "podcast" that you can download to this post. For now, I hope you don't mind that all I have is a video blog of our conversation. 

Finding more

I asked Simon for where customers can find more about Cloud Bank Storage. Let me share several things you can check out.

• Simon and the team have posted nine articles about Cloud Bank Storage here on ATSB that you should check out. You'll get more details here than probably anywhere else. 
• Simon mentioned the ChalkTalk I have on Cloud Bank - it's a really good 5 minute intro to it. Alas I couldn't find a video Simon had done talking about Cloud Bank - I'm sure he'll have one soon!
• You can get a good overview with the HPE Cloud Bank Storage Solution Brief.
• Reference architecture for Cloud Bank Storage and Microsoft Azure. 
• Reference architecture for  HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack data protection with Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Cloud Bank Storage.

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About the Author

I'm Calvin Zito, a 34 year veteran in the IT industry and have worked in storage for over 25 years. I am an eight-time VMware vExpert. As an early adopter of social media and active in communities, I've blogged for 9 years. You can find me on Twitter as @CalvinZito. If you don't follow me on Twitter, do it now! You can also contact me via email.