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Building a Practical Disaster Recovery Plan for Your First Cloud Project
I still remember the first “cloud” Disaster Recovery (DR) plan I reviewed back in 2012. The team assumed that because their app was running on AWS, it was magically invincible. “It’s in the cloud,” they said. “Amazon handles that.” Six months later, us-east-1 had a wobble, and that team spent 14 hours manually rebuilding databases…
Slicing the Veeam “API Tax”: A 2025 Architect’s Guide to Immutable Object Storage
When you’re designing a Veeam-to-Cloud architecture, the per-GB storage price is the “marketing number.” But for those of us building for Day 2 operations, the number that actually matters is the IOPS-to-Object ratio. I’ve seen too many architects treat S3 like a tape drive, only to be blindsided by a monthly bill where 40% of…
Is Azure SQL Native Backup Enough? Why Smart Architects Add Rubrik
When you migrate to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) or Azure SQL Database, one of the biggest sighs of relief is handing backup management over to Microsoft. Out of the box, Azure provides excellent operational recovery capabilities. You get automatic full, differential, and transaction log backups. You get Point-in-Time Restore (PITR). You get geo-redundancy to…
Ransomware‑Ready Backup Strategy for 2025: What Every Engineer Must Know
In 2020, the advice was “have good backups.” In 2025, that advice is dangerously incomplete. Today, backup infrastructure is not the remediation; it is the primary target. Modern ransomware cartels know that if they encrypt your production data, you will restore. But if they delete your backups first, you will pay. Attackers now spend weeks…
The Indestructible Vault: How Veeam, Rubrik, and Cohesity Architect Immutable Backups
Introduction: The Day Your Backups Betrayed You It is the nightmare scenario every IT leader fears. You get the ransom note. Your primary servers are encrypted. You calmly turn to your backup console, ready to initiate a restore and be the hero. But the console is empty. Or the backup files are corrupted. Modern ransomware…
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