B2B marketer with more than 15 years of experience in technology and fintech. She writes about cloud migration, data protection and disaster recovery for Opti9, with a focus on plain-English guidance for IT leaders weighing real infrastructure decisions. She also runs RicochetB2B, a marketing agency for tech and fintech companies.
An immutable backup is a copy of data that cannot be modified or deleted for a defined retention period, by anyone, including an administrator with full privileges. The retention period is set when the data is written and enforced by the storage layer rather than by permissions, which is what makes it different from a…
A VMware migration is usually planned as a hypervisor decision and experienced as an operations project. The virtual machines are rarely the hard part. What takes the time is everything that grew up around the platform over the last decade: the backup configuration, the monitoring, the runbooks, the automation, and the assumptions your team stopped…
There is no shortage of lists of VMware alternatives. There is a shortage of help deciding which one belongs in your environment, and whether every workload should move at all. That second question is the one that gets skipped. Most migration conversations start from the assumption that the whole estate leaves together, because that is…
Recovery time objective (RTO) is how long a system can be down before the impact becomes unacceptable. Recovery point objective (RPO) is how much data the business can afford to lose, measured as a window of time before the incident. RTO looks forward from the moment things break. RPO looks backward from it. That distinction…
Opti9 Technologies, a leading managed services provider specializing in cloud, security, and application modernization, recently announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier tier in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Achieving AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status distinguishes Opti9 as a proven leader in designing, architecting, migrating, and managing workloads on Amazon Web…
