Cloud providers changing plans and costs on a whim is a good reason to keep on-prem solutions. You'd have to be nuts to compromise your own business by using cloud provider services that you can't pick up and move at a moment's notice.
Yeah, we've all done that problem, the Saint Bernard dog with the bunch of tapes instead of the brandy barrel, running at 25km/h, or an ISDN line to the top 10km away.
A quarter rack of IoSafe fireproof and waterproof NAS units inside a secure detached heavily-fortified bunker outside the main DC say nope to "all the backups" burning; anyways.. if those doing OnPremise took even the first thought about it, which most people would.. doing "On Pemise" right still involves having multiple premises - there are ways of protecting additional offline copies of data/extra media at the same site as the main copy.. A bigger issue in case of an event with a single premise is h
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My SSDs are invincible. Come at me bitch.
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[you hear a distant scream]
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Off-site stored backups were an option long before you were born, you dyslexic l33t h4x0r.
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> Off-site stored backups were an option long before you were born, you dyslexic l33t h4x0r.
The joke in the 70's was about the bandwidth and latency of a station wagon full of tapes.
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Yeah, we've all done that problem, the Saint Bernard dog with the bunch of tapes instead of the brandy barrel, running at 25km/h, or an ISDN line to the top 10km away.
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A quarter rack of IoSafe fireproof and waterproof NAS units inside a secure detached heavily-fortified bunker outside the main DC say nope to "all the backups" burning; anyways.. if those doing OnPremise took even the first thought about it, which most people would.. doing "On Pemise" right still involves having multiple premises - there are ways of protecting additional offline copies of data/extra media at the same site as the main copy.. A bigger issue in case of an event with a single premise is h