"An Auerbach book".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Contextualizing data protection -- Data life cycle -- Elements of a protection system -- IT governance and data protection -- Monitoring and reporting -- Business continuity -- Data discovery -- Continuous availability and replication -- Snapshots -- Backup and recovery -- The Cloud -- Deduplication -- Protecting virtual infrastructure -- Big data -- Data storage protection -- Tape -- Converged infrastructure -- Data protection service catalogs -- Holistic data protection strategies -- Data recovery -- Choosing protection infrastructure -- The impact of Flash on data protection -- In closing.

"This is the fundamental truth about data protection: backup is dead. Or rather, backup and recovery, as a standalone topic, no longer has relevance in IT. As a stand-alone topic, it's been killed off by seemingly exponential growth in storage and data, by the cloud, and by virtualization. So what is data protection? This book takes a holistic, business-based approach to data protection. It explains how data protection is a mix of proactive and reactive planning, technology and activities that allow for data continuity. It shows how truly effective data protection comes from a holistic approach considering the entire data lifecycle and all required SLAs. Data protection is neither RAID nor is it continuous availability, replication, snapshots or backups- it is all of them, combined in a considered and measured approach to suit the criticality of the data and meet all the requirements of the business."-- book cover