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I am currently visiting a very large customer of ours outside of the USA and, while I’m very lucky to be able to travel internationally for the job I adore, spreading the good word about backups, going abroad is always good for a swift reminder of the different challenges (& laws) surrounding backup data and moving it across national borders. This customer has major datacenters in North America and Europe and many very small satellite offices around the world. They don’t currently have a requirement to backup all those small places but as seems unfortunately usual, backups come last in the pecking order of project lists and funding.

It was in my previous employer life that I came to appreciate the magnitude of what may lay ahead for them, albeit not across borders in this example, but how the number of remote sites will pose the first issue. The backup solution needs to be able to handle this large list of systems and their many different connection speeds – a great way to mess up bandwidth to your datacenter is to backup myriad different sites with tiny, tiny network links. There is an answer in the Data Protection realm of course, and as is more and more common these days, its name is ‘deduplication’. The good ol’ Gartner statement runs along the lines of ’75% of backups will have deduplication applied to them by 2012′ – while I very much like this statement as it gets our customers to think seriously about it, I believe it’s a little aggressive. For large enterprises then maybe, but most small customers will continue to use regular disk or tape until the prices of dedupe get lower.

But I digress. Dedupe will help solve their cross-border Data Protection needs. Those international lines between a company’s offices are already choked with email, file shares and whatnot without adding backups to the list – so dedupe is a natural fit. Mix this with maybe having some help from the time-zone differences, a backup environment can run very well with this mixture. Throw in some proper ‘backup reporting’ and your Ops guys will put you back on his seasonal holiday card list.

Wow, that was tough. I just had to renew my certifications for a major backup application and I can’t believe it’s been two years since I last took this exam. It was rough, a lot has changed in the new versions including the line of questioning used – they must have some new guys writing these or they’ve reached out to other gurus in the industry for input. And they are evil people.

I sat one cert a while back and was very amused to know that there were only 150 people in North America who held this cert. I’m not bragging, I just thought it very funny that such a popular application was so overlooked by people – especially those who keep a keen eye on their resume/curriculum vitae. I personally don’t like seeing all those same, usual, ‘everyone sits this one’ certs listed on people’s paper/online career history – mix it up a bit, get something that stretches you, it’ll at least raise a curious question when someone comes across it.

‘Oh, what’s this? I see you’re certified on , tell me more about that?’ It can only help your allure rather that just being another line in your PDF on someone’s monitor.

The proctored exams are usually pretty cool though. Tinged with that little annoyance of ‘hey that’s not the correct answer, you can do it the way Answer B says also’ is my only pet peeve with this process. Having been customer-side of things and firefighting this stuff at 3 a.m. on a public holiday Sunday, I know all too well what the product can do… but as always, I digress. Those exams keep you on your toes, keep you thinking, keep you grounded in the logic of how the software’s process HAS to work – you can be creative in your own time in your development environment, but they’re not gonna certify you on that (although you may get a polite golf-clap for thinking outside of the box).

My company likes us being certified also. It gives them something to promote and shout about. And it can do the same for your company also. Your favorite sales person from your hardware/software vendors of choice will like you more also as it gives them something to talk about – they may then even remember that you have three kids instead of just the two cats they continually ask you about as they saunter around your office on their way to yet another lunch with your boss.

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