Backup and recovery are two mainstay processes of many business continuity strategies, regardless of the size of the business or the industry that you are in. While the principles have changed since the 1960s, technologies around media, encoding, encryption and decryption technologies have continued to evolve.

Arguably the real developments around backup and recovery are more around the pressures businesses must face, whether it is in the need to compete globally, the interdependencies of businesses today with partners and suppliers, or regulatory pressures to protect information especially customer data, to name a few.

Charles Chow, director of sales engineering with Commvault talks about:

1.                   How has backup and recovery changed (if any) in 2020 and 2021?

2.                   We are seeing interest for a hybrid (on-prem, edge and in the cloud) multi-cloud approach among enterprises in Asia (including SMEs). How will this affect backup and recovery strategies, and for some industries compliance with regulations around data protection?

3.                   Considering the evolving and escalating cybersecurity risks, how should CIOs and CISOs work to protect the enterprise against these threats, where do Backup and Recovery fit in this landscape?

4.                   How do you relate zero-trust with backup and recovery?

5.                   In the area of backup and recovery, what new technologies and practices can we expect in 2022?

a.                   Continuous data protection

b.                   SaaS data protection and Big SaaS-Data protection

                                                               i.      What do you mean federate?

c.                   Data tiering

6.                   Any last advice to CIOs how they should approach backup and recovery in the era of connected enterprises, hybrid environments and APIs?