https://lnkd.in/ej24JMJk A "perfect storm" event! Having multiple backups across different cloud providers turned out to be a shrewd investment for this company. However this approach isn't always the right strategy for all businesses. Selecting the right solution comes down to risk tolerance, financial factors and data type.
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Co-Founder | CTO | TED AI Winner | Faculty | Principal Architect | Author - A Trusted Technology Leader
https://lnkd.in/gXZkX3Xu Like Stock its important to diversify your infrastructure in multiple cloud and On Prem. Hybrid is way to go!
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This is something we have told many of our clients. Most do listen but some don’t. You need a backup outside of your provider no matter who they are. This just goes to show that you don’t have to get hacked to lose everything. IT is a practice. It’s open to human error in addition to more sinister intentional criminal acts. NetDepot.com is a great place to back up your data with their very affordable s3 style storage that supports backup technology like veeam and Cohesity.
Do you rely entirely on your sole Cloud provider to also host your backups? Does that match the risk tolerance of your Leadership team? Are you even aware of this risk? Yes it costs extra money, but if you really understand and model the risks of doing everything with one Cloud Provider, you might do well to consider adding this to your Risk Register. Assign executive ownership, evaluate robust backup options outside your primary Cloud Provider like the good folks over at DataBank or any number of providers, and then determine if the risk outweighs the cost. Or not, like this unfortunate experience. https://lnkd.in/gcXkukpv #riskmanagement #cloudops #businesscontinuity #disasterrecovery
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Do you rely entirely on your sole Cloud provider to also host your backups? Does that match the risk tolerance of your Leadership team? Are you even aware of this risk? Yes it costs extra money, but if you really understand and model the risks of doing everything with one Cloud Provider, you might do well to consider adding this to your Risk Register. Assign executive ownership, evaluate robust backup options outside your primary Cloud Provider like the good folks over at DataBank or any number of providers, and then determine if the risk outweighs the cost. Or not, like this unfortunate experience. https://lnkd.in/gcXkukpv #riskmanagement #cloudops #businesscontinuity #disasterrecovery
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“The dedication and collaboration between UniSuper and Google Cloud has led to an extensive recovery of our Private Cloud which includes hundreds of virtual machines, databases and applications.” To build a cross vendor, cross region or hybrid environment backup and recovery plan is extremely important now. The disaster happens even your production is sitting in hyperscale provider. #AvoidVendorLockin #AlwaysHavePlanB Plan early, let #HyperBDR to help you to build the #MultiCloud contingency plan
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This is perhaps a perfect storm but also shows the value of having off-cloud backups and not relying solely on one provider. Just like two copies on one location isn’t fully resilient, two copies on the same cloud and same subscription isn’t either
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Cyber Security, Transformation Strategy, Technology Risk & Financial Crime Practice Director - Q1 Group /Seisma Group,
Imagine going in on Monday and being told all your data is gone. Interestingly written article. It takes many paragraphs before reading that they got up and running again due to having backups by another provider. Quite a mess. Cloud seems great. But only with alternative disaster recovery backup solutions. #q1 #q1group #misconfiguration #data #gcp
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Google reveals what caused the erasure of cloud customer account data: "Google has put up a TL;DR on the matter: "During the initial deployment of a Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Private Cloud for the customer using an internal tool, there was an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank. This had the unintended and then unknown consequence of defaulting the customer's GCVE Private Cloud to a fixed term, with automatic deletion at the end of that period. The incident trigger and the downstream system behavior have both been corrected to ensure that this cannot happen again."" This is a followup to my previous post: https://lnkd.in/eFvRmEsQ #Google #DataErasure https://lnkd.in/eByY8NDJ
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Ouch! #cloudcomputing Service lockin can have massive downsides if you're cloud only. You definitely need onprem data sync, and multi cloud. From article: UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper's incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn't happen until May 15.
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Tech Specialist-Banking Products at Tech Mahindra; Experienced Temenos T24 Consultant; PhD Student (InfoSec)
Lesson 101 on cloud dependeny and business continuity.
Mandatory reading for anyone using public #cloud tl;dr Cloud account + all data + backups + replicated data + replicated data backups were simply wiped out by cloud provider (#Google Cloud in Australia in this case) "UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data" Like, wow system backup #BCDR superhero on staff at UniSuper apparently. I'll be using this story in my classes going forward for sure. https://lnkd.in/eH-xm4V8
