Welcome to the Data Protection Hub

The NetWorker Blog was born in January 2009 not long after the publication of my first book, Enterprise Systems Backup and…

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Sandpits in enterprise data protection

“Practice makes perfect” is not just a common saying, it says in three short words how humans learn to do things.…

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I Never Doubted My Protection

Network Attached Storage – NAS. It’s such an interesting beast, because it provides an easy solution for file storage within…

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Arranging by policy

A week before easter, I was doing some Powerplate exercises, nothing I hadn’t done hundreds of times before, when stepping…

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Racing Backups

On your marks I’m not all that interested in sport. I grew up in a sports-mad family and spent a…

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Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too

I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…

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2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report

Introduction The NetWorker Usage Survey for 2017 ran from December 1, 2017 through to January 31, 2018. Regretfully, participation rates…

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3 Simple Questions

In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…

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Data Protection Central is Here

The world is changing, and data protection is changing with it. (OK, that sounds like an ad for Veridian Dynamics,…

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Basics: Planning A Recovery Service

Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…

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