Backup and recovery (B/R) has been a core IT responsibility since the dawn of computing. In the earliest days, it was a simple dump from disk to tape with response times measured in days. B/R has evolved to address the needs of client/server architectures, then virtual infrastructure and now cloud and container infrastructure with ever greater sophistication and more stringent SLA expectations.
Unfortunately, B/R does not get the attention needed to transform it from being regarded as a necessary evil into a corporate strength. Indeed, those organizations that achieve excellence in B/R give their organizations a competitive advantage through better data availability and accuracy. There is a big difference between organizations that seek to keep B/R from being a liability (i.e., make it “good enough”) versus those that seek to make it a strategic, competitive advantage.