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Data Protection
The IT Director slid the report across the conference table with a confident smirk. “We’re good,” he said. “We just refreshed the entire backup stack. Immutable storage, air-gapped copies, and the vendor guarantees ‘Instant VM Recovery’ for up to 500 workloads. RTO is under 15 minutes.” I looked at the datasheet. It was impressive. It…
I built my first Proxmox cluster on a Friday night. Two beefy nodes. Shared storage. HA enabled. I shut the laptop feeling smug—I had just replaced a six-figure VMware stack with two commodity servers and some Linux magic. Saturday morning, a power blip hit the rack. Both nodes came back online. No VMs came back….
Every ransomware vendor demo shows a single VM booting in 60 seconds. Every real ransomware recovery looks like this: The backups are intact. The ransomware is neutralized. The executives are on the bridge. And nothing is coming back online. Recovery is not a software problem—it’s a physics problem. It is a war against bandwidth, IOPS,…
The traditional 3-2-1 backup strategy was designed to solve for hardware failure; the 3-2-1-1-0 rule is engineered to solve for adversarial intent. In a landscape where 94% of ransomware attacks now specifically target the backup server, a “copy” is no longer a recovery asset unless it is cryptographically or physically isolated from the production plane….
If you’ve been in the trenches as long as I have, you remember when backup was just “insurance”—a tape sitting in a truck on its way to Iron Mountain. Those days are dead. Today, backup is your last line of defense against ransomware, and more importantly, it is becoming the primary index for Data Security…
