Plenty of life left in tape

With LTO-5 now just starting to go mainstream, it’s reassuring to see that the Ultrium roadmap has been expanded with…

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Telling facts

I joined Twitter about 6 months ago, having resisted it for some time. My only regret now is that I…

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Microsoft, start your copiers

For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…

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Divorcing NMC from NetWorker

The classic NetWorker install will see: A bunch of clients Optional storage nodes and/or dedicated storage nodes The NetWorker server…

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Site outage

Today my site hosting service suffered an outage of over 12 hours. While this was the first major outage for…

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7 rules for system administrators

Introduction When I entered the work force, for the first few months I trained as a MIMS consultant, but was…

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Managing NetWorker from an iPad

While there’s no native NetWorker management app for the iPad (or iPod Touch/iPhone), there are some management options available for…

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Error lifecycle management

In previous articles I’ve discussed the need for zero error policies. This was covered first in What is a Zero…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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