A Note on Changes / Maybe You Want to Hire Me
This blog has been quiet for all of 2026. Unfortunately, that’s the way life works sometimes. 2026 has been a…
Author: Preston de Guise
The broken state of archive in backup
Let’s say you have a front-end estate of 500 TB of data that you’re protecting. And let’s also say that…
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.21, 19.22
PowerProtect Data Manager version 19.21, and 19.22 are out. 19.21 came out in September, but I confess I’ve been spectacularly…
What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.20
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.20 was released in June, and now that I’ve got a few minutes to spare I wanted…
What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.19
Data Manager 19.19 came out at the end of March, so I’m a little late writing about it: I’ve been on…
A fortnight with the Kinesis Advantage360 Pro
The last few months have been a pain for me. And I don’t mean “oh it’s been busy” (well, it…
Pre-sales Engineering and Product Management
Yesterday morning over breakfast, I was reading the excellent article, Mastering Assumption Testing in Product Management, and I was struck…
Assorted Musings, Episode 8
It’s raining bookmarks A few years ago I dived back into having a central, multi-platform/multi-browser bookmark manager and since the…
Working with Resource Groups
PowerProtect Data Manager features a powerful access control mechanism which allows you to isolate users of the system to only…
Three Years a Product Manager
A few days ago I passed my three year milestone in product management, and that seems like a good point…