Abstract
You will get an introduction into the challenges and trends to architect application backup and recovery in an on-premise, cloud, and hybrid IT environment. You will be guided through all layers from the service down to the physical hardware. You will learn how to recover end user business data up to the recovery of the entire application farm distributed across complex and virtualized environments. You will get some ideas how to deal with the human factor in IT environments with distributed responsibilities. The session discusses how to balance service level against cost.