Two Things Apple Get Wrong Still With iOS

I’m a two-phone person. I carry a phone for work, and my personal phone. Actually, both phones are mine because…

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Basics: Handling a Failed Backup

Ideally, our backups work all the time without an issue. That’s an ideal situation. Then again, in an ideal situation,…

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Cloudy, with a chance of data-loss?

How confident are you that the data you have in cloud is protected? That’s one of the questions I asked…

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The Changing Face of Computers On Screen

Note: I originally wrote this in 2012, on my ‘unsane.info’ blog. I’m winding that blog down, but wanted to preserve…

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PowerProtect Data Manager Quick Glance

PowerProtect (the Data Manager software, and the storage platform) — the next generation data protection platform from Dell EMC, became…

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Ransomware News

I’ve been tracking news on ransomware for a while now, and there’s been a few events of late that warrant…

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The Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse

“And lo, as the skies darkened and the earth trembled, I saw them riding their pale steeds — The Four Horsemen…

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Disaster Movies: A Model for Data Protection

So, the other night, my husband and I finally got around to watching San Andreas, the 2015 movie featuring Dwayne…

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The Perfect Cloud Environment is the Perfect Headache for Data Protection

It practically goes without saying that the smartest way to move workloads to a public cloud is to have them…

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The 15 Minute Rule

I still remember a conversation I had with a customer circa 2001 when we were planning their updated backup environment.…

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