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>From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via
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>On 3/5/22 12:38 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Who is responsible for backups in a Cloud based system?
>
>The same people that are responsible for backups when in an on premises
>data center.
>
>Why would the location of the system alter who's responsible for ensuring
>that backups are being created and tested?
>
>Sure, the technology used for the backups may be different.  But -- to me
--
>the responsible parties are still the same.
>

"Public Cloud" is just another name for outsourcing parts of your IT to
other vendors like Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS) in return for paying a
fee for monthly services your company has contracted with. 

Like outsourcing, moving to a public cloud means you are leaving behind
those portions of your current service model that you decide can be done
better by someone other than your current provider e.g. your internal IT
dept.

Like outsourcing, one of the biggest challenges moving to the "Public Cloud"
is designing, implementing and maintaining a new service model i.e. defining
backup strategy (policies, schedules, data retention, if offsite required,
restore testing etc.), system and security monitoring, management and WHO
will implement these. In addition, how much is the new service model going
to cost up front and on an annual basis.

Like outsourcing, you need to determine how the company is going to measure
/ monitor the new service providers to see if they are delivering the level
of service they are contracted for. SLA management of external vendors is
not an easy thing to do and has additional costs associated with this
activity as well.

Like outsourcing, for the question of who does backups in the Public Cloud,
the answer is "whatever third party your company decided to contact for the
backup/restore portion of their service model".

When all of the real costs of "Public Cloud" outsourcing is considered, it
becomes pretty clear why many M-L companies are deciding to go with the
"Private Cloud" model whereby they have many of the same features as a
Public Cloud e.g. provisioning on demand, capacity on demand, but with a
much more integrated service model and with more integrated security that
does not require them to manage and contract out to many and often different
outsourcer vendors. Note that one feature of Private Clouds I have seen is
that adopters may still adopt a collocation provider for secure Data Centre
Services as most companies do not want to be in the DC Facility business
anymore.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com








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