Bob Baird, Author at Risk and Resilience Hub

About Bob Baird

Bob Baird has been a lead architect, director of architecture, and consultant over his 40 year career with IBM, HP, and Symantec. At IBM, Bob was an expert in data-storage performance and a lead architect for mainframe storage systems. At HP, Bob was a co-inventor of HP/AutoRaid, storage systems architect, and worldwide architecture director for telecom billing systems. At Symantec, Bob has been a storage solutions architect, a disaster recovery consultant, and lead architect for data protection and business continuity solutions. Bob also has a dozen patents in data/storage systems to his credit.

A Practical Guide to Comprehensive Data Protection

By Bob Baird|2022-03-29T19:28:47+00:00January 1st, 2008|

This article describes why addressing the data-protection problem is critically important and lays out general characteristics for a comprehensive solution. Data protection is the preparation for and recovery from data emergencies. Backup and replication technologies [...]

The Service Disruption Continuum

By Bob Baird|2022-03-29T19:24:23+00:00January 15th, 2007|

Disruptive events don't have to be a major disaster to wipe out your business. They can be anything from a relatively minor malfunctioning network card to a devastating event such as a sudden regional disaster [...]