If Leonardo da Vinci created a Backup Appliance…
Demetrius M.
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery | Cyber Resilience Leader | Senior Product Manager - Azure Storage | Go-To Market Strategist
Visualize with me for a moment.
If Leonardo da Vinci created a Backup Appliance…
Waking from a dream, Leonardo sprang from his bed. “Aha I’ve got it”, “Data Backup with a Soul”.
Leonardo da Vinci was an Expert Generalist or Polymath, highly skilled in multiple areas where he could draw upon the knowledge of an exceedingly great abundance of intelligence to solve specific problems. And, with those skills he would have started by painting it with vivid colors and fine details representing every light, button, fan, disk and rectangular shaped module.
His next steps would have been for him to go to his secluded thinking spot, sit down for hours, deep in thought, writing, and sketching it out in one of his favorite notebooks. The next morning he would have gathered his modeling tools and supplies for clay, wax, and metal. He would spend the entire day sculpting it.
His overall process would have included visualizing numbers, equations, symbols, formulas, performance, backup throughput, number of U’s, types of disk whether SSD or HDD or both, deduplication ratios, compression algorithms, data encryption methods and whether to store aging data to a cloud provider.
He would also ponder several questions:
- What applications to protect and how to make the backup application-aware?
- Should I mount the data directly on the appliance to provide matrix recovery (instant or live)?
- How can you access the data that was backed up?
- How many virtual machines to protect?
- What is data backup with a soul?
- Does data have a soul?
It has been said that data is the lifeblood of a business and it is the most critical entity of a company whether small, medium or large. Leonardo understood this fact more than anyone during the Early Renaissance and so he wanted to fill a void in the industry by creating this product.
After crunching numbers, drawing specs, and creating his datasheet; he would have spent some time gathering up materials in his masters workshop in Florence (where he kept all types of commodity hardware such as old disk drives pulled from the Medici Family PC’s, power supplies, PC fans, paint, clay, an assortment of electrical components, etc…).
He would have spent days meditating and concentrating on this one thought of how he wanted the consumer to interact with this backup appliance; whether through a physical point-in-click experience, through a touch screen interface on the appliance itself, or by only allowing it to be controlled entirely through an iPhone or Android app.
He would have went through painstaking details to draw out exactly how he wanted the backup appliance to look and what the user’s experience would be while standing in its presence with all of its elegance and grace.
It would have been based on purity and simplicity following the mindset of the Early Renaissance.
Medicina Personalizada.
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