In a disk world, how do you recover from older tape storage? How do you make sure your data doesn't end up in a black hole so you can recall it? What should you do to ensure the independence of data stored in backups and archives from the software that stored them? Learn about best practices for protecting and storing your data for the short and long term. How to migrate between from older systems as smoothly and painlessly as possible. This talk will include specific examples of how organizations ran into problems and how they were resolved. There will be a discussion of separation of duties both on-prem and in cloud as well as examples of how to migrate from Storage Protect Plus to newer products, such as IBM's Storage Defender.