{"id":9343,"date":"2020-03-09T04:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2020-03-09T04:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:55:01","slug":"meme-monday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/meme-monday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK, it’s been a little while since I did a meme Monday, and there are s a few ones I want to cover off today. So let’s get cracking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can’t really predict how much backup capacity you’ll need in 5 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Listen, I get that people in procurement, in particular, want to be able to draw a line in the sand and say, “We spent X on this, we won’t need to spend any more for 5 years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s not how data protection works. That’s not because we’re always looking to spend more money \u2013\u00a0if anything, most people I know who work in data protection are always actively looking for ways to save<\/em> money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In movies, the butterfly effect<\/a><\/strong> is arguably one of the most broadly used memes from maths, but if you want to see the butterfly effect in motion, track a backup system over 5 years. Or to jump across to quantum physics: you can predict where<\/em> your business needs to be in 5 years time, but you can’t predict exactly what form its IT infrastructure will be in to meet that goal. And that’s not a jab at the cloud \u2013\u00a0I’m not talking about being able to say “we’ll be all-in on the Cloud in 5 years time”. Pfft, anyone can say that. I’m talking about being able to say exactly what the type and size of every one of your workloads are going to be in 5 years time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never. Going. To. Happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, remember that there are better questions to ask than “give me sufficient capacity for 5 years”, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n