What’s Cloud DR?

Not every business can afford a fully functional disaster recovery location, particularly if it’s a smaller environment with a tighter…

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NetWorker Server Disaster Recovery Options

What do you do in the event of a disaster, either across your environment, or within your backup environment? What…

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Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage?

Years ago, one of the most common terms I’d hear in IT was “vendor lock-in”. It was, to all intents…

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Welcome to the Data Protection Hub

The NetWorker Blog was born in January 2009 not long after the publication of my first book,Ā 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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