Now, you might think it’s odd that I’m talking about snapshots \u2013 why wouldn’t we be trying to back this up? Well, just because we move into the public cloud it doesn’t mean we abandon a data protection continuum. Remember the continuum from my previous post:<\/p>\n Backup and recovery in public cloud serves a purpose, but just like for on-premises systems, you’ll sometimes want faster recoverability options than a traditional backup will give you; or (and this is something particular to PaaS in particular within the cloud) you’ll want to be able to provide protection against something that you can’t necessarily deploy a traditional backup option against. Hence, just as they are within the datacentre, snapshots can form an important part of a holistic data protection strategy in the public cloud.<\/p>\n CSM lets you define snapshot policies, perform ad-hoc snapshots, and perform snapshot recoveries, all from within an easy to use web portal hosted within the DellEMC cloud. Instances can be protected by selection or tagging \u2013 and most importantly, CSM regularly rediscovers your environment, so changing moving protected systems between layers of snapshot policies can be as simple as changing instance tags.<\/p>\n CSM was in interactive development for some time, with a lot of customers making use of it. It brings two distinct benefits \u2013 enterprise management, of course, but also allowing policy-based removal of snapshots as they expire. This can pay for itself in eliminating the risk of bill-bloat as snapshots get taken, but not cleaned up. By managing the snapshots from a central location, you keep a tighter control over the bill that comes from the storage associated with those snapshots.<\/p>\n If your business is using public cloud, Cloud Snapshot Manager is something you, as a data protection administrator, really should be looking into. And the cool thing about that is you can do it with a 30 day free trial<\/em>. Because there’s nothing to install, it’s as simple as signing up to a portal to get started. Currently CSM works with Amazon Web Services \u2013 if you’re interested, you should check out the official page on CSM<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently at Amazon re:Invent, DellEMC announced Cloud Snapshot Manager (CSM), the first iteration of an enterprise grade data protection control…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1133,1229],"tags":[1413,1411,1412],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","category-cloud","tag-amazon","tag-cloud-snapshot","tag-paas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Cloud](\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Cloud-Snapshot-Manager.png\")
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