Some years ago we could afford to use the network for backup/recovery. Today, even with the high(er) speeds networks, we need to have more intelligent ways to backup - and even more important - to recover data. Five years ago customers gave us 8 hours to backup 10 GB of data, today we get 2 hours for 500 GB of data. Five years ago we put most of our data in filesystems, today more and more critical data resides in Databases and applications ( that need to remain on line for 24 hours a day). Disaster recovery is taken more an more serious today. Combined with SAN technology we enter a new era of intelligent backup and recovery. To maintain control over all these new technologies a new way of managing backup and recovery is required. This new way of managing should include self healing backup servers.

After obtaining his degree in electronics, Danny Herreman started working for Philips as a support engineer for the UNIX platforms (this was 1987). A couple of years later he made his first steps in data management. First as product manager for backup and HSM products in BIM and later in EMC. Since 1997 he is working for Legato as Sales Consultant. This is his first European job. It is since his BIM time ('90) that he has been involved in backup/recovery and HSM. Eight years of seeing recoveries to fail because backup was not set-up properly ... also 8 years of seeing HSM struggling for a place in data management-land.