Backup

One thing that is sometimes overlooked in ‘cloud’ is backup. People assume that because their infrastructure isn’t in their datacenter anymore that disks won’t fail, users won’t delete the wrong file or DB corruptions won’t occur. Sometimes you will get away with it, but I sleep better at night knowing that my systems are being backed up on a nightly basis.

So how does Softlayer handle this critical operation?

Softlayer provides two ‘traditional’ OS level backup products. eVault and Idera (or R1Soft Backup). each product has its place in an IaaS solution.