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I am opening up a calendar for free corporate backup assessments: 30 minutes at no cost to review your environment — Bacula, Veeam, NetBackup, CommVault, Networker, Rubrik, Cohesity, or other — and deliver a written action plan, regardless of whether you hire paid consulting later.

Who this is for

CTOs, infrastructure managers, DBAs and security leaders running any corporate backup solution — Bacula (Community or Enterprise), Veeam, NetBackup, CommVault, Networker, Rubrik, Cohesity, IBM Spectrum Protect — or evaluating migration between them.

What the review covers

• Retention policy and backup window
• Performance — deduplication, throughput, bottlenecks
• Restore — actual RTO, documented testing
• Disaster Recovery — replication, secondary site, runbook
• Compliance (data protection regulations as applicable)
• Cost — licensing, infra, reduction opportunities

About Heitor Faria

20 years in enterprise backup, working across multiple platforms in critical environments.

📚 Education

• Master’s in Applied Computing — University of Brasília (UnB)
• MBA in Business Administration — United States
• Postgraduate degrees in IT Service Management (Security), State Law, and Project Management
• Law degree — Universidade Católica de Salvador

📖 Books

Author of 4 books on Bacula, from the 1st to the 5th edition (Brasport), including the English-language edition “Bacula: The Open Source Backup Software”. Cited in international academic research (Google Scholar h-index 3).

🏛️ Clients (Brazilian entities)

• SERPRO — designed and managed the centralized backup topology for all regional offices of Brazil’s Federal Data Processing Service
• ITA — Aeronautics Institute of Technology
• Unicamp — University of Campinas
• PMESP — São Paulo State Military Police
• 16 Brazilian Regional Labor Courts
• Dufry — global duty-free operator
• Multiple other state and federal entities

🏆 International recognition

• Top Bacula Enterprise sales lead worldwide for two consecutive years
• EB-1 visa (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) — United States. Currently holds dual citizenship
• 5,600+ students trained across 86 countries — among the top-10 most influential Udemy instructors in the category
• Official Bacula instructor for over 17 years

🛠️ Certifications

• LPIC-III — top tier of the Linux Professional Institute
• ITIL Foundation
• EMC Storage E05-001
• TOEFL

🎤 International speaking

Campus Party Brazil, Software Freedom Day (Poland, Africa, Switzerland), Latinoware, ConFLOSS — among dozens of events on free software, backup, and critical infrastructure.

🛡️ PodHeitor products

Maintainer of 21 PodHeitor plugins that extend Bacula Community for enterprise use cases: Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, CloudStack, Nutanix AHV, global deduplication, cross-site replication, ransomware detection, granular restore, and more.

How the assessment works

1. Reach out on WhatsApp or fill the form
2. We schedule 30 minutes on a video call
3. I ask what is essential about your current environment
4. I identify critical points and opportunities
5. You receive a written report with the action plan

No commitment. No credit card. If I can help with paid consulting later, great. If not, you walk away with clarity to act with your team.

💬 I want the free assessment →

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