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Disaster recovery (DR) is defined as (1) The use of alternative network circuits to re-establish communications channels in the event that the primary channels are disconnected or malfunctioning, and (2) The methods and procedures for returning a data center to full operation after a catastrophic interruption (e.g., including recovery of lost data).

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What's a quick win for optimizing spend? What's been your focus or "lowest hanging fruit"?

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What is the most interesting/helpful/unique tool you're using right now that no one is talking about?

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I'm building most on... share "why" in comments...

Public Cloud71%

Private Cloud28%

What are the top challenges with backups? (Select all that apply)

Backup tool integration25%

Implementation38%

Too manual/lack of automation41%

Difficulty expressing the need for backups to the business (e.g., hard to define ROI)35%

Initial costs32%

Ongoing costs (e.g., subscription or usage fees)24%

Protecting the backup files from cyber attacks18%

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Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, curious if anyone has any experience with them? PoC experience to share, other thoughts?

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How have others approached building IT Disaster Recovery from a low maturity starting point? 

How did you prioritise what to tackle first?

Did you establish a dedicated DR/resilience role, or spread responsibility across existing teams?

I'm interested in learning how other large enterprises are planning and approaching data backup, recovery, data loss, ransomware protection for Data Cloud Platforms such as Snowflake.  * Are you using native capabilities? * Have you deployed additional 3rd party platforms? If so, which ones? Thanks in advance for your inputs and insights.

What are your thoughts on SaaS management platforms (SMP)?

What solutions are being used to "back up" Google Workspace (Gmail and Drive)? Is anyone using something good (and hopefully reasonably priced) as a last-resort backup for Google Workspaces?

Do you have a backup tool for Microsoft 365? Is it necessary?

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What strategies do you recommend for achieving high availability and disaster recovery in the cloud? (And conversely, anything you commonly hear that isn’t as effective as you’d think)?

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I am trying to find a definitive definition of what a logical air gap is. There are various mechanisms of backup access isolation that can be employed but it seems to be a very gray area in terms of an explicit definition. Has anyone come across a definition that might even include a sliding scale of more restrictive logical air gap defenses? For example, I think about several access related configurations that could involve Role based security, MFA, SDN, Firewall, WAN, etc.

Have you had any success in closing the gap between your planned vs actual RTO? If so, how did you manage that?

From a customer perspective, how does an IPO or fundraising event change your perception or expectations of a vendor? Are there certain thresholds (i.e. Series C) that you take into account?

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What strategies can we use to speed up our mean time to recovery (MTTR) following a major attack?