Backup! What will it look like in the future? This is a thought that is mostly found wandering around every IT Admins head. Taking into consideration the past years, the idea of predicting what backups may look like in a decade from now feels absolutely surprising.
Never did anybody even imagine years back that multiple computers can run in a single hardware. There was a time when the businesses literally invested huge amounts in the individual hardware but today it has turned the scenario so much to the opposite extreme that businesses have started cutting down expenses on hardware, What an irony! All due to the Virtualization. This example is enough to understand that how much ever we try to predict or make a probability, the truth is “Future will be full of shocks and surprises”. We never know or even imagine what it holds.
Anyway certain stuffs has to be looked into in respect to the backup industry. The assumptions made on how the future will look like will make us ready to face the future or in very clear terms help us prepare for the future.
Let’s take a look on few concepts of Backup and Disaster Recovery and the expected inclination it is about to take in the next few years.
When it comes to assumptions there are a multiple ideas and views. It is believed by few experts that either “There will be no backup concept within any industry” or “ Every industry by itself will have backups”
Let us discuss the former and the latter possibilities. The former to be elaborated as follows. The backup responsibility of every business and every organization will be completely taken over by the cloud dealers. Justifying the above statement that industries will not have Backup concepts within them but the cloud dealers will. Yes, you heard that right. The big players of the cloud providers like the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure or even the others providers who can lead the race, will take the proceedings by not only providing the cloud storage but also its backup management. Cloud is expected to be the game changer due to technologies digital transformation. Traditional techniques performed manually will all cease. Though today Tape backups are proving to be best suited for long term data archival, it is believed to disappear once the bandwidth and security issues are sorted with Cloud.
Talking about Cloud storage and enhancement, multiple researches are being performed by various giant firms globally. This will lead to the new era of yet another revolutional digital transformation.
Coming back to the point, when the entire management of backup will be taken up by a separate Industry (Mentioning the Cloud Providers here) individual organization be it big or small will have no necessity to interfere, the irony being its their own data.
This term can be clearly explained further. The businesses will keep growing and so will their data. As the growth will be exponential, we cannot actually predict the stature ie; the position it will be in terms of the data. The concept of data being handled by the 3rd party seems kind of scary when it comes to accessibility and security.
With growth it is to be believed the security are to be held more tighter. The encryption algorithms used will be of the utmost quality with irreplaceable decrypting mechanism other than the original. These have been into making rounds in terms of Ransomware where the already encrypted data is further encrypted making it inaccessible for its owner even with its original decryptor lock. Various researches are currently being performed and believed to end the risks of data managed on cloud in terms of security and data theft.
Recovery scenarios, if at all a disaster hits, the businesses can pay the dealers ie; Cloud Providers in terms of the type of recovery they want. Minimal level recoveries having File-based data to the total volume of raw data recovery or even the instant full machine recoveries be it physical or virtual, based on the type, charges may be applied.
Coming back to the state where we spoke on “Backup might be in every Industry”. The concept here is based on the automatic integration of backup software in every industry. The current way of dealing backups is by choosing a Backup and Disaster Recovery solution vendor. The software is given the access to data which has to be backed up. Here the hardware where the data is processed comes in from a different vendor and then the advanced level backup software has to be purchased separately and has nothing to deal with the hardware. The storage of the backed up data and the data which will be growing, every aspect stands separately. Imagine all these being integrated. That is what the latter concept revolves around. When you purchase a hardware, every single data being processed in the hardware is a taken responsibility of the hardware vendor. With all the advanced backup technology vendors tie-up with the hardware vendors providing automatic safe backup.
Conclusion:
Backup Industry existence may not have a clear picture but backup will continue to be in a trend either directly or indirectly. The copy of data will be anyhow managed and made available at times of disaster or any kind of data loss. Opt for the best backup and disaster recovery software now to protect your data and be flexible enough for future transformation of the Backup Industry.
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