Week 12 – Backup Agents and The Cloud

This week we have been focused on learning the ins and outs of cloud computing. Businesses in todays world are taking full advantage of cloud computing technology to boost business functionality and progress. Cloud computing makes vendors and users have an easier experience of utilizing softwares, infrastructures and applications they may not have had the chance to before. Infrastructure-as-a-service, Platform-as-a-service, and Software-as-a-service are the three main models of cloud computing. All three have their role in creating ease to resources they may not have had before. Cloud computing has in some ways taken over society and is a main driver of many organizations today.

Here is this interesting web page I found that helps outline some backup options in todays world –

https://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/backup-exec-agents-and-options

Week – 9 and 10 Spring break and Business Continuity

We had our spring break for week 9 of the class. When we got back we received our test grades and you can say I was less than pleased with the grade that I earned. Then we started week 10 which was Business Continuity. I enjoyed this chapter because it brought the previous topics we have learned about in the class into real world scenarios and this really helped me understand the bigger picture. Things like disaster recovery and potential lost revenue from clients were among the topics covered.

Here is an interesting article I read about outages and disaster recovery-

https://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/feature/Data-center-emergency-power-strategies-in-disaster-recovery-planning