I've worked with many Systems Administrators throughout my
career. Each of them undoubtedly unique, but many share some observable
traits. Often they tend to see themselves as unsung heroes - the frequent
saviors of productivity, the mechanics of the business engines, or even as a
kind of Atlas supporting not just the weight of the world, but the fate and
destiny of the entire company’s collective future. It’s no secret
that many of these brave individuals are the kings of ad-hoc learning, often
trailblazing new software frontiers with nothing more in their toolbox than a
unique ability to absorb complex integration practices learned often by
experience alone.
The most stereotypical trait for Systems
Administrators is disorganization. Hollywood and television
programs have convinced us that behind the fogged glass door of the IT
department lie piles of workstation and printer graveyards, boxes of random
cables resembling spaghetti, and a growing collection of fast food
wrappers. On the surface, the eyesore of the traditional IT habitat
rarely convinces many that actual work is performed. In their
defense, this environment is the result of a position that rarely has strict
boundaries of responsibility. Over time, they are asked to evolve
into not just Information Technology admins, but also be responsible for
supporting almost anything that requires electricity.
The Systems Admin is usually trusted with one of the most
important tasks of any network; data backups. At any time, the
combined day-to-day toil of millions of bytes of information from their
co-workers could potentially disappear in a heartbeat when the urban squirrel
decides to go looking for nuts in local utility pole transformer. Thanks
to the ever-improving resilience of storage technology, the risk of a complete
loss of data (aside from the rapid fission of neutrons from Uranium-235 within
1.6km radius of your data center) is thankfully lower than ever. But a
common saying rings true for data backups: it’s better to have it, and
not need it – than to need it, and not have it.
VEEAM is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of these
IT-basement dwellers, for the fact that it provides data protection and
high-speed recovery while still maintaining a friendly and easily learned
interface. Virtual Servers and Workstations have rapidly become the
new normal for many office environments, which does ease many of the previous
support challenges of physical devices, but opens the door for even more
importance on reliable backups when they are centralized in the data center.
The free Veeam Reporter has since matured, and is now part of the Veeam ONE Suite (left) that shows an extremely granular visibility dashboard into your entire virtual infrastructure for your Virtual Servers and Workstations. It provides real-time monitoring, optimization, capacity planning, and over 25 new reports for showing your work, instead of letting your messy office do the talking for you. By pairing this tool with Veeam’s Backup & Replication set-it-and-forget-it style of management, it frees your time for other tasks….like fixing mobile phones, aging fax machines, and printers.
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