In addition to this blog, I have the following books published:
Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
Today, many businesses and corporations are moving their on premises IT Infrastructure to the Cloud. There are numerous advantages to do doing so, including on-demand service, scalability, and fixed pricing. As a result, the Cloud has become a popular target of cyber-based attacks. Although an ISP is often charged with keeping virtual infrastructure secure, it is not safe to assume this. Back-up measures must be taken. This book explains how to guard against cyber-attacks by adding another layer of protection to the most valuable data in the Cloud: customer information and trade secrets.
Co-authored with Ravi Das, and published with CRC Press in 2018. ISBN-13 978-1138393325.
You can purchase the book through a variety of resellers, including CRC Press and Amazon.
Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability
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 standalone 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.
The book also discusses how businesses seeking to creatively leverage their IT investments and to drive through cost optimization are increasingly looking at data protection as a mechanism to achieve those goals. In addition to being a type of insurance policy, data protection is becoming an enabler for new processes around data movement and data processing.
This book arms readers with information critical for making decisions on how data can be protected against loss in the cloud, on-premises, or in a mix of the two. It explains the changing face of recovery in a highly virtualized datacenter and techniques for dealing with big data. Moreover, it presents a model for where data recovery processes can be integrated with IT governance and management in order to achieve the right focus on recoverability across the business.
Published with CRC Press in 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1482244151.
You can purchase the book through a variety of sellers, including CRC Press and Amazon.
Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy
The success of information backup systems does not rest on IT administrators alone. Rather, a well-designed backup system comes about only when several key factors coalesce―business involvement, IT acceptance, best practice designs, enterprise software, and reliable hardware. Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy provides organizations with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and features involved in effective enterprise backups.
Published with CRC Press in 2008, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy (EBR) is a thorough step-through of the essential aspects of building and maintaining a holistic backup system.
ISBN-13: 978-1420076394
You can purchase the book through a variety of sellers, including CRC Press and Amazon.