Can you back it Up...

With Big Data comes, Analytics, with Analytics comes Insights, with Insights comes Storage requirement, with Storage you need a Data Protection solution incase a disaster strikes! A feature rich data protection solution including what we at Zazezizwe call, scalable versioning and semantic deduplication.

This means looking for a new strategy for backup and recovery. Using an older-style backup product with a newer distributed database could spell trouble.

Most of the backup vendors and softwares are typically tuned to the type of systems that they're backing up. Rewind 10 years and it was very difficult initially to easily do backups for VMware virtual machines, this opened the door for players like Veeam to enter and steal the VM backup market from under the noses of the incumbents.

Note that organizations that are deploying big data platforms and applications must realize the importance of backing up their data. Proper backup and recovery requires some investment but is well worth it given the role big data plays in driving business value.

Organizations should deploy the right technologies to meet their Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Not having a backup/recovery solution for big data is not an option because events such as human error and data corruptions will happen. It is not a question of if, but when!