Backups Aren't Simple

The article argues that backups are a strategic business necessity, not a simple storage task: organizations need snapshot-based recovery, defined RPOs, rotation policies, and deduplication to survive human error, ransomware, hardware failure, and data corruption. For CIOs and technology leaders, the key implication is that IT must design backup programs as part of resilience and business continuity, balancing recovery speed, retention, storage cost, and operational complexity rather than relying on mirror copies or ad hoc drives.