Glenn Sizemore

I can help you in data mass, data gravity issues like

The amount of reasons that it's better to align your data protection, primary data protection, we can argue about whether or not it's a backup.

That's that stupid old argument that it's a waste of time.

At this point, you think what you think, and the listener knows what their opinion on this is.

There's the raw economics of it and the capabilities.

And I've always been way more interested in the capability side.

Just, you know, give me any system you want.

You can't restore faster than Snapper Store.

You just can't.

Like when the application is down and now I'm being measured in minutes of response, right?

Sites down, services down, we're in a hard outage.

Like those are the moments where the opportunity cost to...

Be able to do the snapper store versus be staring down the barrel at a 16-hour streaming restore operation.

Like, those are two completely different realities.

Shiny objects.

Well, there's some of that.

I think it's more a victim of the segmentation that typical, like larger shops typically go through.

Having a guy who's in charge of your infrastructure and a different team that owns –

the database instance and on top of it and a different team that does the storage and a different team that owns the data protection for that storage.

And here we are trying to sit down and have a conversation about a single stack that addresses all four of those teams.