Microsoft comes right out and says backup software is dead
Microsoft's been making lots of noise lately about its send-your-snapshots-to-the-cloud service Azure Site Recovery. But now it's come right out and said it: Redmond reckons backup software deserves to die.
“If cloud storage had existed decades ago, it’s unlikely that the industry would have developed the backup processes that are commonly used today,” Microsoft says.
Redmond reckons that disaster recovery plans are all very well, but are hard to test and are probably not covering the diverse fleet of backup products most organisations have accrued over the years. Even organisations that can cook up holistic backup regimes still have to wrangle all manner of hardware and software, which adds up to complexity and cost and all the stuff that vendors attacking a market decree are bad, bad, bad. It also takes a swipe at the reliability and restore times afforded by tape,
